1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The trial of the Military Juntas of the last dictatorship (1976/83), accused of crimes against humanity. As in Nuremberg after World War II, the trial is entirely recorded in U-matic tapes. For 90 days, the testimonies of the horror were heard and a final sentence: Never Again. The defenders and the…
Vilca, the Magic of Silence
Original title: “Vilca, la magia del silencio” Ricardo Vilca was one of the most influential artists of the Argentine Northwest in the last decades. However, for years, his talent and musical works were hidden from the general public, remaining where they belong, protected in the Quebrada de Humahuaca mountain valley. By a twist of fate,…
Wind and Tide (2020)
Original title: “Marea y viento“ Filmed during a school year at the experimental school “Los Biguá” on the Banks of the Carapachay River, in the Argentine Delta. A school for parents. Another way of viewing education in a permanent state of caution: does the State allow this school to exist? How do we keep it…
Matter of Mind (2019)
Original title: “Nueva Mente“ A universal story showing the circuit of garbage processing, from production to consumption. With its containers, packaging and wrappings: bulk that is discarded as soon as it’s bought. The waste. A journey through the metropolis until its final disposal. Throughout that trajectory, there are people, pollutants, margins and more. We notice…
The sun rises from the ground (2019)
Original title: “Amanecer en mi tierra” The sun rises from the ground– Lihuntun Inchin Mapu documents the case of the Intercultural Neighborhood (“Barrio Intercultural”). A joint collaboration between Neighbors For a Home Association “Vecinos Sin Techo”, and the indigenous organization Lof Mapuche Curruhuinca, a national law was passed allowing for the recovery of lands that were…
Chaco (2017)
When the Carob tree was our livelihood, it was normal to see rabbits, armadillos, and other species around. The day the white man arrived, the black eagle warned us: Danger. Five men of different indigenous communities of the Greater Chaco region keep their people’s history of struggle alive, since the arrival of the first white…
Human Trafficking (2015)
Original title: “Mujer entera” Over the past decade, Argentina has become a country of origin, transit and destination of trafficking. The pimps and the State’s corrupt officials make human trafficking a lucrative business. On the other side, there are the victims. But permeating this whole web are the clients, who are always safe from any…
Green Desert (2013)
Original title: “Desierto verde” Green Desert is a feature-length documentary about the production of food that reveals current processes in the farming industry, posing the need to shine a spotlight on the problems associated with this business, like deforestation, the desertification of soils and pollution from herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, commonly known as “agrotoxics”. At…
Beyond land (2011)
Original title: “Tierra adentro” Inland captures various voices to tell the story of the struggle to extend the southern border of the Argentine and Chilean states during the 19th Century. And its repercussions and continuity in the present day. The film claims that the conquest of the desert (and the pacification of the Araucanian people on…
Upstream (2006)
Original title: “Río arriba” A journey by train, hitchhiking, on foot and on mule-back from the city into the depths of the Andes… A personal journey for the film’s director, who explores everything from his family history – including an ancestor that blew up a sugar mill – to the consequences that the sugar industry…