Daniel Valenzuela

1977, Argentina. Gina (37) is obsessively trying to conceive a child with her husband Carlos (58), with whom she previously lost a baby before birth. Carlos is a powerful businessman involved in shady deals with the military during the dictatorship. A former equestrian champion, Gina finds solace in horseback riding to escape the anguish of not becoming a mother. One afternoon, she gives in to the attraction she feels for the stable boy at her riding club. They become lovers, but she soon realizes that love alone cannot heal her wounds. Later, she finds out the army has kidnapped her best friend. In search of help, she turns to a captain from her husband's inner circle – unaware that she's walking into a trap.

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Documentary that follows a group of filmmakers who investigate the existence of a Peronist superhero that Perón allegedly proposed to publish. They interview historians, graphic artists, and sociologists to reconstruct this figure, whose evidence was destroyed after the 1955 coup d'état and the persecution of Peronism.

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In the backroom of a supermarket, Matias spends the night with his new coworkers: Lucas and Raúl, a night guard at the wholesale section. What begins as a casual hangout gradually takes a strange turn due to Raúl’s constant mood swings, making the dynamic increasingly tense and uncomfortable.

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A small village lost in the mountains, paralyzed after the closing of a mine, receives the arrival of an outsider who offers a significant payment in exchange for a very special job: to kill the owner of the mine.

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A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.

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In the revolted 70's in Argentina, teenage Graciela is an artist and a poet. She and Julio, a charismatic student leader, are brought together by their ideals for social justice. Her poems reach young musician Flecha, who dreams of singing them for a roaring crowd. As the times grow harder and more dangerous, friends are persecuted, Graciela and Julio protect each other, but the dictatorship kidnaps them. Graciela's mother desperate search for her daughter brings her together with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who's relentless clamor for their missing children is only met with more terror and death from the bloody dictatorship. 35 years later, that mother publishes a book of Graciela's poems, and brings it to Flecha, now an accomplished musician. He turns them into songs that let her words live and fly.

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A middle-class young man joins the "brava bar" of a soccer club in the Buenos Aires suburbs, Argentina, and manages to ascend within the criminal structure until he reaches a place of leadership that he could never find in his own environment.

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A serial killer with a taste for the theatrical is killing powerful judges and leaving their bodies surrounded with dead pigeons. Félix, a detective haunted by his past, is the only one who is able to solve this enigmatic case.

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Gualtieri is an apathetic ex-cop, fighting himself, almost nothing excites him. That is why he accepts an easy job in the jungle of the triple border. Investigating how and why a person was killed becomes the key to revealing other truths that should be buried under the wet red soil of the place.

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Unable to land a job as an airline pilot, Leonardo takes a job as a fumigator pilot at a farm in the countryside. On his very first night, he discovers the town harbors a deadly secret that will put everyone in danger.

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A determined woman works to rid an Argentine soccer club of the violent crime and corruption surrounding its intense fanbase.

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Dina has not seen her three children for many years. They escaped their excessive control and live abroad. She can't get over her aerophobia to go visit them. She can't take it anymore without seeing them, and with his friends she sets up a mock of his funeral to force them to come and see her, but her plan will unleash madness. Who would think that this plan will work?

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Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Argentina 2018. After her mother’s death, Naty (a middle-aged transvestite) start taking control of every inch of the house, accompanied by her loyal friend Sixty. Her luck seems to have changed, until one day a secret from the past is revealed. A thriller in the suburbs, filled with the political insubordination and the dark comedy that is so characteristic of Naty Menstrual.

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Pistolero is a fiction that in a certain way is an essay on violence. The story follows the criminal raid of Isidoro Mendoza and his brother Claudio in the rural Argentina during Ongania’s dictatorship, and how the violence of his criminal deeds begins to leave a mark in them. A teacher from Buenos Aires arrives to Isidoro’s life, and love is the possibility to open himself to a new life, but even as he tries, he can not escape the entropy generated by his own drives and actions.

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Carlos is a friendly lineman who lives in the heart of a square in the big city, under a roundabout that the neighborhood gave up over time. He appeared there after having tragically lost his family in an enigmatic accident that no one knows anything about... Today, while he tirelessly seeks to reunite with his son Álvaro, he sweeps sidewalks in exchange for tips or something that helps him get through the nights of this winter that is being very cruel to your health.

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A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.

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Nafta Súper was born as a spin-off of the argentinian cult film "Kryptonita" (Kryptonite) from 2015. Eight suburban episodes, eight mocking, engaging, and ferocious hunts. Nights of drinking that are nights of shooting, lived with adrenaline, dark humor, and glistening sweat.

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The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

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Movie adaptation of Leonardo Oyola's novel, which tells the story of the legendary DC comics superhero, Superman, if he, instead of falling in Smallville from Krypton, would have landed in the heart of Isidro Casanova, in La Matanza, deep in the west side of Buenos Aires.

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Daniel, Juan Palomino is a security guard, he was once a policeman, and he would have liked to be a vigilante hero. But, far from it, his job is to take care of the buildings of others. The city will cross with Analía (Emilia Attias), a distant woman, obsessive and beautiful in a mysterious way. She avoids contact with men because she has been the victim of rape. That terrible past comes back when Julio, Esteban Meloni, a violent and obsessed man, gets out of jail. Between the three are weaving on the streets of the city a plot of passion and crime.

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In an inhospitable rural area in North-East Argentina, machismo, destitution and the repression meted out under the military dictatorship sees the birth of the latest daughter born to Antonio, alcoholic woodcutter who anxiously wanted his first son. After the three daughters are farmed out to families in better financial position, he christens the latest one with the name of José, nicknamed Bumbún, and forces her to take on the identity of a boy. Mercedes, hurt by having lost her other daughters, protects the girl and keeps up the lie, constantly threatened by Antonio. Having been forced to act as a boy since childbirth, Bumbún will struggle between whether to accept her fate or to fight to change it.

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It is the story of Ernesto Ramponi, a man who lost his penis and tries to get it back.

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Carmen fails to adapt to the world and society in which she lives. She worries about not having a partner. In a raffle he wins as a prize a week with all payment for two in Mar del Plata. She is willing not to go alone.

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A story about metaphor, exploring metaphor rather than a naturalistic or contemporary narrative, avoiding the discursive. It's not difficult to find the parallel between what happens and what actually happened: a family (us as a society) protected by a violent drunk (the government at the time), his wife and son, naked victims of their father's violence and impotence. The well-meaning bourgeois family (the cultural empire of good manners) seems to be restoring order when, in the face of such a situation, what they're actually doing is appropriating what they need under the guise of imperialist civilization. Reading it merely as a vampire story reaffirms this metaphor: out of our ignorance, we despise what conquers us, only for it to conquer us again without hesitation, with morality and good manners on its side.

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In the middle of the Andes Mountains lies a big dump. Hundreds of homeless people are living from the garbage. An inexperienced social worker is sent by the local government to evacuate these areas and the conflict erupts.

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On March 24, 2004, Patricia, a teacher from Monte Grande, saw on television President Néstor Kirchner take down the portrait of Videla and other de facto presidents of the military dictatorship from the Military College. This image repeated itself in her mind, leading her to retrieve from her box of memories the letters addressed to the soldiers of the Malvinas War, which she had saved from destruction when she worked as an administrator at the Municipality of Monte Grande. She then decided to give meaning to that event by starting to deliver the letters that had never arrived.

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Bruno has a teenage son, Damián. In front of his house there is an abandoned factory where Cartucho, a squatter, lives. Bruno buys a used car and parks it on the factory lot and is forced to tip Cartucho to take care of it.

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Juan is a 35 year old man whose hobby is bodybuilding. He works in a factory, where despite its huge and muscled physique, is mistreated by his bosses and colleagues. His biggest dream is to leave that life gray and a better life, especially owning your own gym, but has yet to collect some money. And that is, when, in the evening of another of his routine days, attends a terrible episode before which makes a decision that suddenly puts a moral crossroads.

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Rosario is a paid assassin who kills men who mistreat or abuse women. When the police capture her, it's the end of the myth. But Maria, a hysteric invalid, saves Rosario in exchange for a different job.

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Ramón Antúnez, a sawmill laborer from the province of Misiones, is fired from his job. Overwhelmed by economic problems, he is seduced by his compadre Antonio, an experienced fisherman, to participate in a transfer of marijuana from Paraguay, across the river, to Leiva, a renowned drug trafficker in the area.

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An actor's journey playing an assassin on the set of a film that takes place in a Buenos Aires' butcher shop. Short novella from the anthology "Historias breves 7". The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Competition and Filmmakers Support Program. This novella was shown as part of an almanac and had separate festival distribution and screenings.

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The film tells two stories apparently very distant are slowly approaching each other. On the one hand is Babarimisa, a young man from Benin who suffers from a relentless disease for which seems to have no remedy. Desperate to save his mother, Morenike, a Yoruba priestess goes to invoke the power of the Orishas gods. Meanwhile in Argentina, Shantas is a young offender living in a marginal area tainted by the practices of Umbanda, a cult derived from African religions. None of us can even imagine the surprises that come in the destination.

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Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free and once out, he pays his debt to "the tunnel of bones,"sharing their macabre story with a local journalist, and ultimately the world.

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Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Journalism and writing workshop in the hospital. They were both part of the workshop's creation and of a very recognized and conflict magazine which one generated therapeutic, institutional and social effects that proved to be too much for it. The words heard through the phone the day before make them need to find out what happened to Martin and his body. While discussing about this very same subject a word makes them remember about the beginnings of the workshop.

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Argentine dictatorship, 1978. About to have a child, Ernesto moves in with his girlfriend Paloma. What he doesn't know is that the military is looking for them. When they are arrested, they are taken to a clandestine prison. Once there, Paloma dies in childbirth, and Ernesto is tortured to death. In 2010, Alejandro, Ernesto's priest brother, thinks he recognizes the couple's daughter, Natalia. After contacting his niece, she must decide whether to accept his true identity or the one imposed on her for 30 years.

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A young man is struck and killed in a traffic accident, and the wrong man is accused of the homicide.

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