BAFICI Special! | Panorama
An X-Ray of the Desert
Mariano Donoso
Documentary | 2013 | 97 min
When Martínez Estrada wrote "Radiografía de la Pampa", he was influenced by his readings on the literature by explorers who ventured into unknown lands. “An X-Ray of the Desert” also picks up the idea of venturing into strange areas. The destination: the Argentine desert.
Free García
María Boughen
Fiction | 2013 | 82 min
Inés and Roma roam the rooftops and streets of the city, they dream up their own universe, they make and unmake themselves through games and projects that never prosper.
Glass
Federico Luis Tachella & Ignacio Bollini
Fiction | 2013 | 94 min
To know someone in depth can be exhausting. Even in the most mundane situations, it is possible to find tension peeking from underneath.
Days
Ezequiel Yanco
Documentary | 2012 | 75 min
Los días is a film about two twin sisters, their everyday life and the intimacy of their female childhood world.
Hot Button Players
Daniel Casabé y Edgardo Dieleke
Documentary | 2011 | 80 min
This is a film about buttons (the ones in clothing) that play soccer. Soccer with buttons? Yes, but the buttons don’t move on their own; they are moved by Rómulo Berruti and Alfredo Serra, veteran journalists, long-time friends, eminent conversationalists who are fans of soccer-playing buttons.
Five
Cinthia Varela, Marco Berger, Cecilia Del Valle, Andrew Sala, Francisco Forbes
Fiction | 2010 | 88 min
Five stories about sex directed by five young directors.
Ricardo Becher, Final Stage
Tomás Lipgot
Documentary | 2010 | 70 min
Tomás Lipgot records renowed filmmaker, writer and professor Ricardo Becher at age 80, while he starts writing a book about his experience in the nursing home.
The Pursued
Horacio Correa
Fiction | 2010 | 63 min
The conflictive situation behind the act of literary creation can derive in small daily labyrinths: the white sheet, which nowadays blinks on a computer monitor, can be a dangerous abyss.
Metropolis refound
Evangelina Loguercio, Diego Panich, Laura Tusi & Sebastián Yablón
Documentary | 2010 | 47 min
In June 2008 Film Archeology was news all over the world: Metropolis’ (Fritz Lang, 1927) missing scenes, lost for over eight decades, had reappeared in Buenos Aires. This documentary tracks down the detour of this print containing the complete version of the film.
Soy Huao
Juan Baldana
Documentary | 2009 | 92 min
In the rainforest of Ecuador live the Toñampare, a community of Huaroni. They are legendary and have lived isolated for many years, due to their temerity. They introduce themselves as "Huaos", which means person.
Heart of the Factory
Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
Documentary | 2008 | 120 min
The film looks at the life of a group of workers, inhabitants of the Argentinean Patagonia, who start a fight to stop the deaths and accidents that happen in the factory where they work.
Big for the City
Andrés P. Estrada & Juan Schnitman
Documentary | 2007 | 82 min
“No solos, what matters is the melody” says one of the members of Astroboy, a Uruguayan brit pop band. This film documents the recording sessions of their second album, Big for the City.
An Illuminated Life
Andrés Habegger
Documentary | 2007 | 39 min
Two passions entertain the days of “Tucho” Lazlo: the music from vinyl collection and the paintings he makes at a collective workshop. The first passion seems logical, given Tucho’s present condition: blindness. Painting, instead, is a challenge taken on one picture at a time, that allows him to relate to the visual universe snatched away from him by a tragic decision.
Colegiales, Popular Assembly
Gustavo Laskier
Documentary | 2006 | 62 min
Buenos Aires, December, 2001. In the middle of an economic and political crisis, the public took to the streets. In Colegiales, neighbors created an Assembly, and started organizing autonomous political actions.
Viaje a Marte
Juan Pablo Zaramella
Short Films | 2004 | 16 min
Antonio is a boy who wants to go to Mars. Luckily, his grandfather knows how to get there.
Alabanza a la papa
Ignacio Masllorens
Short Films | 2004 | 24 min
What do Eva Perón, Victor Grippo, an American tourist and poet Arturo Basanta from Catamarca have in common? They’ve all passed through the valley of Traslasierra and became victims of the tubercle that obsesses the inhabitants of “Villa Dolores”: the solanum tuberosum, also known as “potato”.
Raymundo
Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
Documentary | 2003 | 129 min
This is a film about the life and work of Raymundo Gleyzer, Argentine filmmaker, kidnapped and murdered by that country’s military dictatorship in 1976.
Encyclopedia
Mariano Cohn, Adrián De Rosa, Gastón Duprat
Documentary | 2000 | 96 min
This film adopts the structure of an encyclopedia, with several scenes that aren't linked in any way, and produces a sort of X-ray of the argentinian society of the nineties.
