Gerardo Chendo

"Lunatics" narrates the experiences of different characters who live in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montevideo. Their stories intersect. The madness of the globalized world and the local reality, of each one of them, is affected just at the moment in which the North American president begins to send posts on social networks, eliminating all trade with China.

Автор триллеров-бестселлеров Хулиан Лемар собирается написать заключительную книгу. В поисках вдохновения он решает вместе с семьей отправиться в уединенное место с подобающей таинственной атмосферой. В первый же вечер во время сильной грозы в доме пропадает электричество, а спустя некоторое время в дверь стучится испуганная женщина. Она утверждает, что её муж только что убил их сына и теперь гонится за ней. Хулиана ждет адская ночь, которая погрузит его в бездну опасностей и жутких тайн.

Claudio inherits a bar from a gay uncle who died, whose family had alienated him. Claudio begins to work on it and meets Horacio, a young poet who falls in love with him. They set up a cultural center in the bar, until one night in the crisis of the 90's some criminals rob them and kill Horacio. Not having a bond justified by law, Claudio cannot save Horacio. Years later Claudio hires Adrián as a waiter at the bar. And a new love story begins again in times of the same-sex marriage law.

Sixteen years after she gave him a farewell kiss, Santiago is reunited with his cousin and childhood sweetheart Luciana, when she returns home to Buenos Aires from New York. When their curmudgeonly grandfather Mauricio has a near-death experience, Luciana decides to take family matters into her own hands and prepare the traditional Passover Seder.

Felipe, an aspiring actor, believes he is jinxed after an unfortunate event. His struggle to find the cause and cure of his jinx. His half-brother is not doing much better, but among the two of them embark on a mission to change their lives and fulfill their father's dream.

The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives. Unglamorous, yet enchantingly addictive and refreshingly genuine, Acuña paints a confused and uncomfortable world, and makes us want revisit it over and over again.

The film is about three friends in Buenos Aires: Paco, Salvador and Dino, going through their common history at three moments in their lives: the years '76, '89 and 2003.