Juan Villegas has the luck of the luckless, now living in his daughter's tiny flat with her new family and unemployed, his attempts to sell hand carved knife handles are not going as well as he would have hoped. After an act of kindness on the roadside Juan is given a pedigree dog and so begins his unlikely journey towards a life as exhibitor and breeder, with the help of his experienced, if slightly wayward new friend, Walter. Bombon El Perro is a beautifully observed tale, but its very simplic find out more...

Santiago is a successful interior designer, husband to Milli and loving father to daughter, Josefina, but this veneer of urban contentment in Buenos Aires is torn away when tragedy strikes. Re-appearing in the frozen landscapes of Patagonia, and changed beyond recognition, Santiago begins a self-imposed penance in a wilderness of outsiders. Yet a warm camaraderie and humour characterise the friendships formed, offering hope to a soul tormented by the ghosts of an unalterable past. Santiago must find out more...

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A young locksmith is forced out of his hometown after his boss is exposed as a criminal. In Buenos Aires he joins the police force but here again his boss.... A superb movie about life in a small copshop in an essentially corrupt country. find out more...

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant. 

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84-year-old Emilia tells her stunned family that she has been invited to be matron of honour at her niece's wedding and expects them to accompany her on the thousand kilometre trip. One heavy dose of emotional blackmail later, thirteen members of four generations cram into a ramshackle old camper van and set off on an epic journey across Argentina toward the Brazilian border. As the days pass and the van hobbles towards its destination, emotions begin to reach unbearable levels and some less tha find out more...

A coming of age story set in a small town within the vast emptiness of Patagonia. Three teenagers with raging hormones and time on their hands find ways to amuse themselves. Getting high, getting off with each other, getting caught and ultimately beginning to grow up. find out more...

Martin, a homeless drifter, succeeds in finding work and a place to live when he approaches Eugenio, a childhood friend of his, who has been left to look after his uncle's house in the country. It isn't long before Eugenio realises he wants more from his new employee than his labour, but will those feelings be recognised by both men? An intelligent romantic drama from Marco Berger

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Three people each with a dream head for the City of San Julian. Maria is a sweet and naive young mother who's won herself an appearance on a TV game show, Roberto is a salesman on a mission to woo a widow and Don Justo is an old man whose life extends little further than sitting outside his son's shop and entertaining the passing children. Historias Minimas is a warm hearted and acutely observed road movie of three outwardly disparate characters; Stunning Patagonian countryside, beautifully unde find out more...

A beautifully shot and deeply touching film, concerning an ageing batchelor's infatuation with a vertically challenged girl, whose mother refuses to accept that her sprog won't metamorphisise into a beautiful young princess. A film that broke box-office records in its native Argentina. find out more...

Intensely beautiful, joyously meandering, Jauja is a puzzle. If you were to look at it with only your eyes, the colour and framing would be piercing. If you were to look at it with your eyes and your heart, you would feel as if you were falling. And if you could pick yourself up at the end, you would have found yourself amid a provocative and philosophical journey.

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Set in a surrealistic, snow covered South American city where the voiceless people communicate through floating speech bubbles, we observe the dark machinations of the sinister Mr TV, owner of the only TV channel, and a man who controls the will of the city's inhabitants, but enough of the plot, the meat of the movie being its rich, visually striking black and white imagery, an allegory about the power of media and television, constructed by a director with roots in photography and influenced b find out more...

A sober portrait of middle-class torpor and decadence from director Lucrecia Martel (The Headless Woman, La Nina Santa). Her debut feature offered a glimpse into the dysfunctional class dynamics and tortured race relations of the Argentinian bourgeoisie as two families spend their holiday on a decaying estate in the mountains. However the crowded domestic situation in both homes strains the families' nerves, exposing repressed mysteries, and tensions that threaten to erupt into violence.
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LAS ACACIAS tells the story of a long distance lorry driver (German de Silva) who agrees to drive a woman (Hebe Duarte) and her 5 month old child en route from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. A subtle and tender road movie exploring loneliness and the pain of loss, LAS ACACIAS grows into a searingly poignant tale about a passing encounter between two strangers and the unlikely bond that grows between them.

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A 40 year old insurance agent dreams of writing a novel and thinks that a chance encounter with a bizarre family full of lunatic personalities is goldmine of material. However, they want their history rewritten in a film of a tragic but sparkling society in retreat. A magical realist satire. find out more...

Miss Mary is a lonely, starchy English governess employed by a rich Argentinian family during the time of the Peron regime. Her recollections provide insights into the type of spriritual malaise which is induced by an excess of cash. The camera keeps a distance inhibiting our involvement, but it deserves to be seen. find out more...

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

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Mop-haired hustler Victor plies his trade amidst the seedy, nocturnal denizens of Buenos Aires with the grim threat of violence simmering just below the surface. Threatening strangers, an attempted murder, and the remembrance of a past love combine to send Victor on a soul-searching, surreal urban odyssey in this sharp and original drama. find out more...

Everything takes place over the course of just 24 hours in the hive of hustle and bustle that is Buenos Aires. A young con artist is spotted and recruited by a master of the game and together they set in motion a crime of fantastical audacity; But for two men who've made their living from the art of deception the temptation for a double cross is almost too much to bear. Nine Queens is an incredibly sharp thriller that just gives you enough time to grasp what's happening before making another wil find out more...

Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women, one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn. A road movie for the whimsical of heart, Patagonia is a film of intimate moments that play out against the sweeping panoramic landscapes, complemented by a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack. find out more...