Astor Piazzolla

Young María, the embodiment of tango, leaves the outskirts of Buenos Aires and tries her luck in the chaotic downtown, where she triumphs in dark places ruled by crime and debauchery, unaware that a menacing presence stalks her, seeking her doom and death.

A cinematic portrait of the world-wide legendary Argentinian composer who changed tango. For the first time ever, the hidden archives of bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla are opened by his son Daniel.

The story of two friends who met on the eve of their fiftieth birthday: musician Astor Piazzolla and architect José Pons. They never imagined that their friendship would change their lives forever.

Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the tango. By breaking with the codes of traditional tango, he brought this popular Argentine music from dance floors to concert halls around the world and is now recognized as a major composer of the 20th century. From numerous unpublished private archives, the voices of Astor and his children paint a unique portrait of this complex man.

Gustavo Dudamel e a LA Filarmônica acentuam as cores, ritmos e paixão da música dos principais compositores da Argentina nesta noite revigorante no Hollywood Bowl: Astor Piazzolla, o mestre do Novo Tango, cujos quatro tangos apresentam no palco a companhia de dança Tango Buenos Aires, conhecido mundialmente como o representante mais autêntico e intransigente do tango, Alberto Ginastera, um dos mais importantes compositores clássicos das Américas do século XX e primeiro professor de Piazzolla, e Lalo Schifrin, que, além de sua música de concerto , é o compositor das famosas trilhas sonoras de Missão: impossível e Dirty Harry. O seu “Concerto para Violão e Orquestra”, uma gravação de estreia mundial, é composto por Ángel Romero, um icônico mestre da guitarra clássica.

Framed by the tranquil beauty of a forest near Berlin, Khatia Buniatishvili gives a recital of pianistic masterpieces dappled by the shade of verdant ferns and leafy canopies. As a special treat, her older sister Gvantsa joins her for four-handed works by Dvořák, Brahms, and Piazzolla. Described as a “force of nature”, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili takes her art into the wilderness with this concert. On a wooden stage, she sits in an earthy concert hall performing works of particular meaning for her, and beloved by audiences the world over. From Debussy’s Clair de Lune to Ravel’s La Valse, from Stravinsky’s Petrushka to Piazzolla’s Improvisations on Libertango, Buniatishvili demonstrates her wide palette of expression and lyric approach to her instrument. Interspersed with the music are intimate interviews of the artist herself in which she discusses on her musical upbringing, her career, and her impressions of the pieces she has chosen to include in the program.

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is also featured in conversation.

An animated film based on the tale of Tonino Guerra, telling the story of the once famous circus duet - the lion and its owner, the story of how the famous lion Amadeo performed in the traveling circus of Signor Peretti.

Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic.From a clumsy and heavy handed pornographic film of the seventies that bad storage conditions have deteriorated over time, Peggy Ahwesh uses the alterations and the mold of the film to emphasize the sensuality of the scenes. It produces a newborn beautiful film , powerful, erotic and disarming at a time.

A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.

Concert and Interview with Astor Piazzolla and his sextet by the BBC-Bristol.

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.

Paris, 1980. Um grupo de artistas argentinos se refugia no país, como forma de fazer frente aos duros tempos da ditadura militar argentina. Lá eles enfrentam todas as dificuldades típicas que assolam os latino-americanos para se estabelecerem nos chamados países do primeiro mundo. Na solidão do exílio, buscam conexão com sua identidade e cultura através de apresentações de tango e se empenham na montagem do espetáculo Tanguedia (tango + tragédia + comedia): “O Exílio de Gardel”.

Paris, 1980. Um grupo de artistas argentinos se refugia no país, como forma de fazer frente aos duros tempos da ditadura militar argentina. Lá eles enfrentam todas as dificuldades típicas que assolam os latino-americanos para se estabelecerem nos chamados países do primeiro mundo. Na solidão do exílio, buscam conexão com sua identidade e cultura através de apresentações de tango e se empenham na montagem do espetáculo Tanguedia (tango + tragédia + comedia): “O Exílio de Gardel”.

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.

Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.

Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel. Based on a story by Italo Calvino.

In three corners of the Buenos Aires neighborhood known as Recoleta, life and death pursue parallel paths. One of silence, death, rebellion and drugs. Lecube is staying in a hotel with his lover Celia and his son Marcelo with whom his friend Toto is trying to initiate a homosexual relationship.

An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government.

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s.

A short film that can act as a companion piece to Le Pont du Nord.

A journalist begins to receive envelopes containing erotic pictures, which he connects to a relationship he once had with an actress.

The parallel lives of two brothers of the "Pampas" of the Brazilian area, which much share everything they have. A woman, "the intruder", will change everything.

An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.

Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…

A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.

An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.

A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out to find who sent the message and why.

O viúvo religioso Herculano se encontra em um dilema quando seu irmão, no intuito de ajudá-lo, marca um encontro com uma prostituta. Apesar das memórias da esposa, Herculano se apaixona pela linda Geni, causando um alvoroço na família, especialmente com seu filho único, Serginho, que se recusa a aceitar o novo relacionamento do pai.

Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years telling stories.

Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country.

A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.

Young and correct Paquito meets a girl on the streets of Buenos Aires. They spend some time around the city, while discovering the outgoing and enigmatic character of Delia.

Short film by Jorge Acha filmed in 16mm, about two young men who share the memory of a woman.

The life of the city of Buenos Aires and the history of its music from its origins, with musicians and dancers.

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness.

Documentary that describes the awakening of the city and its daily movement.

The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.

A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.

The young and inexperienced godson of a millionaire falls for a singer who is married. The millionaire opposes the relationship because he feels a "strange tenderness" for the boy.

A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.

A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.

An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.

A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.

This movie was based on a TV series popular in Argentina at that time dealing with the adventures of high school seniors.

Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion. The first Argentinian sound film directed by a woman.

The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies.

Osvaldo, a football player on the rise, begins to be targeted by private interests who want to elevate him to the status of a sports star.

Two sailors traveling to Antarctica, delude themselves with meeting to the same woman on their return. Totally natural scenes filmed in Antarctica.

In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.

A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.

A provincial woman who arrives in the city is helped by a taxi driver to look for a criminal

Aspects of the life of a group of fishermen.

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

A shy and humble young man overcomes his fears and becomes a racing champion.

Carlos Argüelles is the son of a wealthy man whose only interests in life are business and making money. While trying to succeed in show business he falls in love with a dancer and they elope to marry. But success is not easy to obtain.