BAFICI is a very significant actor in the launching and promotion of Argentinian cinema. In this section, we invite you to revisit previous editions of the festival, through more than 40 Argentinian titles that were shown in the official national full-length and short competitions, or in parallel sections.
Fiction
Today I felt no fear
Iván Fund
Fiction | 2011 | 123 min
"Today I felt no fear" is two movies at once. The first one portrays two sisters in their everyday lives, and the second one abandons lineal narrative to explore freely with the textures of images and sounds.
The Clues - Las Pistas - Lanhoyij - Nmitaxanaxac
Sebastián Lingiardi
Fiction | 2010 | 50 min
The different cultures that inhabit Argentina shape up a story about betrayal, rescues, double agents, and varied, imprecise intrigues.
The Intern
Clara Picasso
Fiction | 2010 | 64 min
A young intern starts a night job as a bell-boy at a five star hotel in Buenos Aires. During his internship he is trained by a receptionist, with whom he develops a close relationship.
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.
Then
Carola Gliksberg
Fiction | 2008 | 72 min
Three situations of a vaguely theatrical origin, stripped of any kind of exterior clothing, reveal the trail of a different kind of cinema.
(How) to be dead
Manuel Ferrari
Fiction | 2008 | 76 min
A young boy decides to fake his own kidnapping. He abandons school and then meets some friends outside who don’t know about his plan.
Regarding Buenos Aires
Ferrari, Franzetti, Kalina, Libster, Pedemonte, Picasso, Piñeiro, Ronco, Santamaría, Solarz, Zukerfeld
Fiction | 2007 | 82 min
Eleven directors, thirty-two characters and five-part collective experience about a city. Temperate and merry, the remains of a shipwreck: Regarding Buenos Aires.
El descanso
Ulises Rosell, Andrés Tambornino & Rodrigo Moreno
Fiction | 2002 | 81 min
A car crash in the road makes Freddy Fassano encounter "El Descanso", an old hotel of the thirties, now in ruins. Tempted by the idea of recovering the good old times, he leads the extravagant enterprise of reopening the grand hotel.
Documentary
What are you now?
Gustavo Galuppo & Mariano Goldgrob
Documentary | 2011 | 62 min
This story recovers the happy years of band "Pequeña Orquesta Reincidentes", the songs, and the voices of those who don't forget, because they still carry them in their hearts.
Brides - Godmothers - Sweet 16
Diego Levy & Pablo Levy
Documentary | 2011 | 61 min
The Levy brothers portray a world they are very familiar with: a silk shop owned by their father, “Negro” Levy, located in the Once neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
The fantastic world of Cropogo
Wenceslao Bonelli
Documentary | 2011 | 66 min
Welcome to the surreal world of Crópogo: “cro” from croquet, “po” from polo, “go” from golf. This mixture is a sport that has been played for about eight decades in Sierra de la Ventana, south of Buenos Aires.
Become a stall holder
Julián D'Angiolillo
Documentary | 2010 | 92 min
La Salada is a group of fairs that specialize in textiles, located outside the city of Buenos Aires, above the ruins of old popular seaside resorts. The stallholders have built their own powerful non-hegemonic economy, offering goods and prices that the regular city doesn't offer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Next to be gone
Lorena Muñoz
Documentary | 2006 | 79 min
Argentina, 1933. The Mexican painter, David Alfaro Siqueiros, paints the mural "Plastic Exercise" in the basement of the mansion of Natalio Botana, an Argentinean tycoon.
Dreams of Polvorón
Gabriel Alijo
Documentary | 2006 | 70 min
From Los Polvorines, Guillermo Solis turns into Willy Polvorón, a lumpen songwriter and guitarist who tries to infiltrate in the world of music’s high society.
Los de Saladillo
Alberto Yaccelini
Documentary | 2005 | 93 min
In 2001, during the great Argentinian crisis, while the population is desperate, depressed and feels that the country is like a sinking ship, two young men from Saladillo start making films with the collaboration of common people.
Final con foto
Alberto Yaccelini
Documentary | 2003 | 56 min
In the small towns of the Argentinean plains, the passion for short range horse races is still alive. In the town of Saladillo, Pablo, a 57-year-old photgrapher looses his job due to the economic crisis. In order to make ends meet, he invents a very ingenious mechanism of capturing images of races.
Volvoreta
Alberto Yaccelini
Documentary | 2003 | 62 min
Volvorta is a 3-year-old mare, trained by Carlos Lerner, an Argentinian who has been living in France for over 30 years. Volvoreta's brilliant debut and wins in races, enables her to compete in the prestigious Prix de Diane. If she wins, her victory will mean, not only the confirmation of her excellence, but Carlos' legitimation as a first class trainer.
Gombrowicz, la Argentina y yo
Alberto Yaccelini
Documentary | 2000 | 84 min
In 1939, polish writer Witold Gombrowicz arrives in Buenos Aires with the plan of staying for two weeks. But World War II breaks out in Europe, and he decides to stay in Argentina, which he will only abandon 24 years later.
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.
Short Films
Shave it
Jorge Tereso & Fernando Maldonado
Short Films | 2012 | 4 min
In a jungle where giant bulldozers shave the vegetation, a monkey finds a razor and decides to use it. Disguised as human, he moves to the city and sets out to climb society's ladder.
The Suit
Agostina Galvez & Luna Paiva
Short Films | 2012 | 11 min
During summer, Inés visits her grandmother, who lives in a sea town. Inés searches her grandmother’s house and winds up finding a suit that holds a mystery.
The cloud
Paulo Pécora
Short Films | 2011 | 10 min
Over the ¨Malecón¨ of La Habana floats a cloud of uncertainties that belongs to an abandoned woman.
Papá
Sergio Quatraro
Short Films | 2011 | 26 min
“Papá” is a documentary in which a variety of family footage illustrates the director’s feelings and findings about his father Carlos, whom he hardly remembers, and who was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Subsidence
Eduardo Crespo
Short Films | 2010 | 18 min
Two brothers and their dying mother are waiting for the rain to stop. They have to make a choice: either stay in and look after their mother, or go out to work before the water ruins the crop.
Rastros
Jeymer Gamboa y Franco Castro
Short Films | 2010 | 14 min
A man makes a car trip with a dark purpose, and he will try to erase the traces he left behind.
The Game
Benjamín Naishtat
Short Films | 2010 | 20 min
A group of armed men are wandering in the jungle, tracking each other. Like in any sort of game, rivalries and internal conflicts will not take long to emerge, drawing a line between the strong and the weak.
Me, Natalie
Guillermina Pico
Short Films | 2009 | 29 min
Natalia Kohen, renowned artist, millionaire and patron of the arts, claims to have been kidnapped by her daughters and held in a well-known neuro-psychiatric facility.
The Contrabass
Alejo Franzetti
Short Films | 2008 | 15 min
At the shores of Buenos Aires, among the debries that form the coast of its echological reserve, she listens, closely, to a confession. What follows, will only be mere inconveniences and questions between a corpse and a contrabass.
8cho
Paulo Pécora
Short Films | 2006 | 13 min
Visions and nightmares of a woman escaping her own shadow.
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”.
Árboles y arbustos
Francisco Pedemonte
Short Films | 2004 | 11 min
"(...) Evergreen, up to 20 meters tall. Straight trunk, dark, hardly cleft, thin bark; rounded, generous, dense, obscure, bright green,..."
