Jorge Zuhair Jury

There are very few icons in Argentine culture capable of appealing to both popular and elitist tastes. Leonardo Favio was undoubtedly one of them. An unseasonable Peronist attached to the liturgy of his land, the director, born in the province of Mendoza, was and artist at every craft. a Renassaince man, but above all, a filmmaker. This is how "Favio: Chronicle of a Director" recaptures him, as a man of film who fed from radio, acting, music and painting in order to build up the handful of rhapsodies with which he adorned argentinean cinematography

Going through Leonardo Favio's film career means reuniting with images and sounds that built a sensibility that keeps expanding generation after generation. This documentary follows the path of a unique filmmaker by means of a scheme of voices, including that of Favio himself, with the lucidity and brutal honesty so typical of him.

Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón.

Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón.

A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into reality. With the characters in his stories, he will share adventures that bring him closer to fulfilling his greatest desire, which is to have a mother.

A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into reality. With the characters in his stories, he will share adventures that bring him closer to fulfilling his greatest desire, which is to have a mother.

When a Mapuche community is displaced from their land by authorities, one of their members, Nahuel Pan (Fabián Gianola), decides to confront the president of Argentina and tell him about his people's problems. On the bus to Buenos Aires he meets Fernando (Alberto Segado), a gay businessman, who invites Nahuel to his home. Fernando's dissolute lifestyle of costume parties and heavy drinking begins to seem more and more empty and frivolous as he identifies with Nahuel's quest to overcome beaurocracy and indifference. Occasionally funny and ultimately heartbreaking.

The story of Jose Maria Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s.

A girl and her fantasy universe in the brick ovens.

A girl and her fantasy universe in the brick ovens.

Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.

Garoto foge de um orfanato e volta à favela onde vive, na periferia de Buenos Aires, onde comete pequenos furtos e briga com outros meninos. Trata-se de um pungente retrato do imenso cinturão de miséria que começava a rodear a capital na década de 60, um fenômeno que, aparentemente, se repetiu em toda a América Latina. A direção e o texto magistrais de Leonardo Favio tornaram possível esta verdadeira obra-prima do cinema novo argentino.