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AMANDO A MARADONA
Argentina/Nueva Zelanda, 2005, 75’, 35 mm

Director: Javier M. Vázquez
Producer: Santiago Bonta
Script: Javier M. Vázquez,
Nicolás Avruj
Cinematography: Marcelo Lavintman
Edition: Nicolás Avruj
Music: Eric Kuschevatzky,
Diego Monk

What have in common a boy playing in a street of “Villa Fiorito” and the owner of a tavern in Nápoles?. What have in common 500 people celebrating Christmas in October 30th and 25 soccer fanatics showing their tattoos? Everybody loves Maradona. From Cuba, Diego himself takes a look of his life and introduces us in a trip that finds the passion of his followers around the world. Filmed in several countries, the film succeeds in telling Diego’s life through the people who carry him in their heart engraved with fire.

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EL SANTO PUEBLO
Documental, Argentina, 2006, 68’, Video

Director: Lino Pujia
Producer: Lino Pujia
Script: Lino Pujia
Cinematography: Lino Pujia
Edition: Sebastián Carreras
Music: Simón Imperiale, Gabino
Arce, Nicolás Gombert

San Cayetano was born in 1480, in a Noble family of the city of Vicenza
which at that time, belonged to the Republic of Venice.
San Cayetano studied and got his law degree in Padova but didn’t
practice, after that, he moved to Rome where he got the degree of
Papal writer, quickly became a priest and later on he created Hospital
in Rome and Vicenza.
In Liniers, Simon Imperiale, the sanctuary’s organist, comes with us
on a car trip on San Cayetano’s historic adventure.

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LA DEMOLICIÓN
Argentina, 2006, 90’, 35 mm

Director: Marcelo Magnone
Producer: 3 Mentes S.A.
Script: Ricardo Cardoso,
Marcelo Magnone
Cinematography: Martín Nico
Edition: Jerry Zottola
Cast: Enrique Liporace,
Jorge Paccini, Marcelo Mazarello

Beto Luna defends the place he’s been working forty years from the
building’s imminent destruction. Osvaldo Lazzaris is the demolition
foreman, and soon shows a remarkable emotional fragility, lead by his work-related deprivation, of his off- the- book job and no insurance, a condition that is very similar to Beto’s status. Both men will end up joining forces to confront the metaphorical demolition, not of the building, but of their lives. People gather and achieve to stop the building’s demolition. The stressful situation makes Beto collapse and is taken away in an ambulance. By then, the people had already taken over the building and they firmly defend it.

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LIFTING DE CORAZÓN
Argentina/España
/Francia, 2005,
93’, 35 mm

Director: Eliseo Subiela
Producer: Luis Angel Bellaba,Álvaro Alonso
Script: Eliseo Subiela,
Alicia Rosendorm
Cinematography: Teo Delgado
Edition: Cristina Otero
Music: Gabriel Mores
Cast: Pep Munné, María
Barranco, Moro Anghileri, Rosario Pardo, Alfredo Casero, Arturo Bonín, Jean Pierre Noher, Silvia Rey, Felix López

Antonio Ruiz, a prestigious Andalusian plastic surgeon, lives in Sevilla
along with his wife and his two children. He is in his fifties and soon he will become a grand father. He takes care of his looks and he has a healthy and juvenile way of life. Antonio is invited to a medical congress in Buenos Aires. His personal assistant is a young and attractive woman named Delia. During his stay, Antonio enjoys his assistant companion. He feels that the relationship rejuvenated him. Back in Spain, his life will not be the same.

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NORDESTE
Argentina/Francia
/España/Bélgica,
2005, 104’, 35 mm

Director: Juan Solanas
Producer: Iker Monfort, Aton
Soumache, Alexis Vonarb
Script: Juan Solanas, Eduardo Berti
Cinematography: Félix Monti, Juan Solanas
Edition: Eduardo Franco
Music: Sergio Malakoff
Cast: Carole Bouquet,
Aymará Rovera, Mercedes
Sampietro, Ignacio Ramón
Jiménez, Emilio Bardi, Juan Pablo Domenech, Jorge Román, Rodrigo Alejandro Hornos, Esteban Luis Gonzales, Mario Marcelo
Reinoso.

At the age of 43, after giving up almost everything to achieve professional success, Helene, a strong and beautiful French woman, decides to change her life. Her desire of becoming a mother takes her
to Argentina looking for a child to adopt. There she discovers Nordeste,
a wild region where the overwhelming beauty violently contrasts with the misery of the people that live there. While she meets the people and get closer to them, Helene faces her own doubts.

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SI YO FUERA UN HELECHO
Documental, Argentina/Francia, 2006, 64’, Video

Director: Nicolás Azalbert
Producer: Nicolás Azalbert
Script: Nicolás Azalbert,
Timour Sergueî Bogousslacski
Cinematography: Simón Roca, Willi Behnisch
Edition: Sergio Flamminio
Music: Arnold Schönenberg,
Kurt Schwitters, Georg Bizet,
Chango Spasiuk, Mogwaï
Cast: Eugenia Capizzano,
Timour Sergueï Bogousslavski

“Si yo fuera un helecho” is abundance, confusion and reproduction.
Azalbert retorts with its contemplatives images the poetic, emphatic and anti dominative discourse from Boggouslavski, but also from the
last of Jean Luc Godard , in a double gesture of forgery, to develop
dialogues between forms, with a permanent quest of the improper of things. This way, Azalbert converts the video in the most effective
weapon to question the world and forgery, or in love and poetry, facts that are consummated just in the confusion of those two things.

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ORO NAZI EN ARGENTINA
Documental, Argentina, 2004, 93’, 35 mm

Director: Rolo Pereyra
Producer: Osvaldo Alzari, Juan Cretin, Antonio José Gurzi, Toni Hervida, Jeanine Meerapfel, Pilu Pilosio, Marcelino Vargas De La Pena
Script: Rolo Pereyra, Jorge
Camarasa
Cinematography: Pacho Guerty, Mariano de Lucca
Edition: Pablo Mangiarotti,
Rolo Pereyra, Cecilio Bernardo, Lorena Peloi, Ernesto Zavatarelli
Music: Manolo Juárez

The documentary’s plot adds serious and polemic evidence about the arrival of Nazi war criminals, and their substantial fortunes to Argentina besides reporting the collaboration of Swiss banks and the Vatican in the transportation of those fortunes. With unpublished testimonies, careful recreations, and endorsed by well known investigators, this documentary illuminates the Nazism darkest heritage.

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FANTASMA
Argentina/Francia
/Holanda, 2006,
63’, Video

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Producer: Lisandro Alonso, Ilse Hughan, Marianne Slot
Script: Lisandro Alonso
Cinematography: Lucio Bonelli
Edition: Lisandro
Alonso, Delfina Castagnino
Music: Flor Maleva
Cast: Argentino Vargas,
Misael Saavedra, Carlos Landini, Jorge Franseschelli, Rosa Martinez Rivero

56 year-old Argentino Vargas, goes to Buenos Aires. He is at the hall of the Teatro San Martín looking for somebody who can take him to the 10th floor, where he will watch the movie in which he has the leading role. He has never been in a movie theater before. Misael Saavedra is there too, and he is lost inside the theater, looking for the showroom. The big building, its bathrooms, the stairs, elevators and workshops are the real protagonists of this mystery which will be unveiled by two foreign men.

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