BAFICI Special! | Argentine Short Films Exhibition
PFA
Felipe Martín Bravo
Short Films | 2014 | 11 min
Omar at age 51 is in the midst of an existential debate in which routine torments him both professionally and personally.
La mochila perfecta
Nele Wohlatz
Short Films | 2014 | 19 min
A German ecologist and her daughter, who lives in Argentina, meet in Cuba to make a documentary about snails.
Two experiences in the forest
Alejo Franzetti
Short Films | 2014 | 10 min
I swear that what I'm just about to tell you is absolutely true: a daring sparrow, a girl that smokes cigars, a forest and Julián, in January in Buenos Aires.
Una parte
Ignacio Sánchez Mestre
Short Films | 2013 | 12 min
This is a story that begins on an early morning. A rock appeared on the terrace. A giant rock. Miguel calls his ex-girlfriend and asks for her help. But this is just a part of it.
Something Else
Madeleine Emery, Martina López Robol
Short Films | 2013 | 6 min
One very long conversation. Or two or three. Jose and Ana try to explain their relationship to each other and to themselves.
Killing a dog
Alejo Santos
Short Films | 2013 | 13 min
Ramírez waits. He has a test to overcome, he drives in silence to the Buenos Aires docks. The Mole is going to test him.
The Last Barbecue
Julen Laburu
Short Films | 2013 | 13 min
9 friends from high-school get together religiously every month for more than 30 years to eat an "asado", a traditional argentine gastronomic ritual similar to a barbecue. When they find out that Javier, the irreplaceble grill-man, is going to move to another country, jealousy, mixed feelings and betrayals start to blossom between them.
Perseo
María Florencia Sosa
Short Films | 2013 | 10 min
Malena lives a quiet life with her cat Perseo in an old apartment building in Buenos Aires. However, there’s an old lady living next door whose presence unsettles her.
Constitución
Natalia Ardissone & Jimena Cantero
Short Films | 2013 | 28 min
The neighborhood of Constitución in the city of Buenos Aires is portrayed out of characters that bring life to a railroad gym, Domincan hair salons, and a nearby bar.
Simulacro
Nicolás Torchinsky
Short Films | 2012 | 13 min
“While rehearsing for a concert orchestra, 8 musicians move around the city in a mysterious choreographed movement. Like a clockwork mechanism, they get prepared to perpetrate a robbery”.
The House
Paola Michaels
Short Films | 2012 | 30 min
This is a surreal tale about strange happenings in an abandoned house. The voiceover becomes the thread of the story in an incredible and lonely place. It's up to you to recreate the actions and characters narrated there.
Zainichi
Federico Pintos
Short Films | 2011 | 33 min
Between 1910 and the end of the Second World War, Korea was part of the Japanese empire. Since then, Koreans are the first ethnic minority in Japan, and their known as “zainichi”. Sometimes, the zainichi are still trying to hide their origin. After the death of his grandmother, the last member of a family born in Korea begins a journey back to his home town.
The inviolability of the domicile is based on the man who appears wielding an axe at the door of his house
Alex Piperno
Short Films | 2011 | 6 min
At the garden of a provincial summer house, a series of operations is carried out, involving a man, a woman and a group of individuals with certain convictions.
The Thesis
Leandro Suliá Leiton
Short Films | 2011 | 24 min
Juan (an aspiring filmmaker) sets out on a trip with Leo (his assistant director and best friend) and a small crew to the mountains, to shoot his thesis. While the shoot gets complicated, Juan’s personal life hangs from a thread.
Swarm
Luis Migliavacca
Short Films | 2011 | 17 min
Registration of "sic semper tyrannis", a noise symphony performed by 14 guitarists and coordinated by Leandro Barzabal.
Piscis
Brenda Urlacher
Short Films | 2011 | 6 min
In the pool, she is surprised by the presence of a man who mysteriously disappears. She feels seduced by him but eventually discovers that he belongs to a parallel dimension, water.
La mujer que usaba esparcidas las ondas del pelo
Julieta Amalric
Short Films | 2009 | 5 min
After a crash, a woman freaks out. Rain impregnates the atmosphere. The victim and the perpetrator embodied as one. A crime, a secret.
