Norma 2023
A woman finds new meaning in her life after her housekeeper quits her job.
A woman finds new meaning in her life after her housekeeper quits her job.
Jess is a bohemian youth with secrets to hide from his shrewd parents. James feels trapped living with his irritable mother. After meeting for a sexual encounter, the two young men set off on a spontaneous road trip across rural Argentina to reunite with Jess' estranged brother. On their journey, they confront strange occurrences and engage in a ménage à trois affair that brings them closer. Their newly found affection grows, all while discovering a fresh vision of freedom and happiness. JESS & JAMES is a sexually charged road-trip movie, a love story, and a coming-of-age tale, set against the mythical landscape of the Argentinian Pampas.
Pana is a popular world from Venezuelan slang that means many things: as a noun it refers to a friend, a good person; as an adjective, it’s a positive quality, someone nice, someone friendly and enjoyable. A coming-of-age story, the short My Pana is also a tale of immigration and exile, a portrait of a teenager adapting to a new society with the few tools he knows to survive: his youth, his body and, ultimately, his own resilience. Through the point of view of a teenager we’ll understand the hardships of million of Venezuelans abroad and the consequences of corruption, exile and the fractured soul of a person who was pushed to leave his true life to adapt to a hostile new place.
A mixture of documentary, diary and personal fiction, Queer Diaries is a sensitive and philosophical journey. For the starting point of an unfinished film, a filmmaker lives, travels and records his memories in the shape of audiovisual poems and short stories. The result is a political manifesto in favor of queerness. What are the models of family and happiness that we follow? What movies shall we make for the new world?
Eight years after the first installment, Ailén, Fernando, and Nina, meet again in the BAFICI competition. From that reunion, they decide to resume their unfinished project: Tandil/Tromso. They bring along two new collaborators: Martín and Nancy.
Two twin sisters are making a birthday cake. Like a two headed creature, they appear to be a projection of one another. In the brief afternoon they spend together, they relive past conflicts and some shared fears that come back to haunt them.
The universe of Argentine independent cinema. The imposture. The unfulfilled dreams. Confinement—the capability for irony, the skill for comedy and the sagacity of UPA! Una película argentina (2007) are back, renovated, to explore the whims of a microworld still in turmoil.
How far would you go to make an independent film? When a director, a producer, and an actress unite to realize their dream of making their first feature, there are no limits in what they are willing to do to accomplish that goal. Stolen locations, amateur work teams, the worst filming conditions, anything goes, even mutual betrayal. The outcome will surprise everyone. Third installment of the Upa! series.
A couple without children, a couple with three children and a gay couple with a son from a previous marriage, four stories intertwine.
A teenage pop music star who is taking advantage of her rise to fame, another young woman with a more rebellious spirit, a young man who is always in love and a handful of low-level criminals make up a group of characters that have something in common: a shared destiny with an uncertain future.
Shot within the urban and industrial landscapes of Halifax, Canada, Here Kitty Kitty! is an improvised film that showcases the beautiful and bleak life of Lucy, a late 30- something woman whose world is falling apart. A not-so-traditional Christmas movie with an off-beat, surreal and comic edge.