35º Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
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1. A Farewell to Memory (2020)
90 min | Documentary
A father who has lost his memories. A son who search into home movies his father shot. And between them, the impossible memory of the missing mother.
Director: Nicolás Prividera
Votes: 58
2. The Year of the Discovery (2020)
200 min | Documentary
In 1992, when the Olympics and the Expo at last presented Spain as an emerging new democracy, the de-industrialisation policies were met with riots in the southern town of Cartagena. The locals remember those days.
Director: Luis López Carrasco
Votes: 516
3. Isabella (I) (2020)
80 min | Drama
Mariel wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". Luciana, who is also an actress, helps her rehearse the part. But during the audition, Mariel realizes that Luciana is trying out for the same role.
Director: Matías Piñeiro | Stars: María Villar, Agustina Muñoz, Pablo Sigal, Gabriela Saidon
Votes: 201
4. One in a Thousand (2020)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Iris has been expelled from school and spends her days with her cousins. When she meets Renata, she's fascinated, and they soon start flirting in spite of the growing rumours about Renata's past.
Director: Clarisa Navas | Stars: Sofia Cabrera, Ana Carolina Garcia, Mauricio Vila, Luis Molina
Votes: 519
5. Moving On (2019)
105 min | Drama
Two kids are moving to their grandfather's house, but everything is going to change when the aunt moves there too.
Director: Yoon Dan-bi | Stars: Choi Jung-un, Heung-ju Yang, Hyeon-yeong Park, Seung-jun Park
Votes: 823
6. Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
148 min | Comedy, Drama
It follows a filmmaker who holds auditions for his next project. Several of the actors who fail to win roles participate as extras.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mala Morgan, Garrett Cassell, Sen Fujimaru, Tomoko Fujita
Votes: 964
7. Spring Blossom (2020)
73 min | Drama, Romance
A 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
Director: Suzanne Lindon | Stars: Suzanne Lindon, Arnaud Valois, Frédéric Pierrot, Florence Viala
Votes: 1,175
8. Sophie Jones (2020)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
After her mother's death sixteen-year-old Sophie Jones is trying everything she can to feel something again and make it through high school.
Director: Jessie Barr | Stars: Chase Offerle, Jonah Kersey, Katie Prentiss, Jessica Barr
Votes: 436
9. We Will Never Die (2020)
82 min | Drama
Rodrigo and his mother travel to the town where his older brother has just died. In that calm place, Rodrigo will start to feel the pain of adults and imperceptibly leave his childhood behind.
Director: Eduardo Crespo | Stars: Brian Alba, Romina Escobar, Jésica Frickel, Giovanni Pelizzari
Votes: 63
10. Shiva Baby (2020)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Drama
At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy and ex girlfriend.
Director: Emma Seligman | Stars: Rachel Sennott, Danny Deferrari, Fred Melamed, Polly Draper
Votes: 33,037
11. The Last Matinee (2020)
88 min | Horror, Thriller
It's a soaking wet day with rain pouring down and one of the best things to do is to go seek refuge in a great old cinema. There's just one problem: a murderer is on the loose and he also has taken refuge there.
Director: Maximiliano Contenti | Stars: Ricardo Islas, Luciana Grasso, Franco Durán, Julieta Spinelli
Votes: 2,542
12. Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (2020)
85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.
Director: Alex Piperno | Stars: Daniel Quiroga, Inés Bortagaray, Noli Tobol, Efrén Ananayo
Votes: 270
13. Como el cielo después de llover (2020)
76 min | Documentary
After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a ... See full summary »
Director: Mercedes Gaviria | Stars: Mercedes Gaviria, Víctor Gaviria
Votes: 62
14. Fauna (I) (2020)
70 min | Drama
A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.
Director: Nicolás Pereda | Stars: Gabino Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo, Francisco Barreiro, Teresa Sánchez
Votes: 294
15. La Escuela Del Bosque (2020)
88 min | Drama
An Argentinian woman raises her child in Barcelona, Spain, while her sister visits her from Argentina
Director: Gonzalo Castro | Stars: Guillermina Pico, Isabel García Ponzoda, Alejandro García Schnetzer
Votes: 20
16. Los conductos (2020)
70 min | Drama, Mystery
A man comes to terms with his past after satiating his greatest desire: assassinating the leader of the sect of which he was a part for many years.
Director: Camilo Restrepo | Stars: Fernando Úsaga Higuíta, Luis Felipe Lozano
Votes: 459
17. Mascarados (2020)
66 min | Drama
A court order obliges the masked persons of the Festa do Divino to leave with an identification number. Not satisfied, a group of them tries to invade the city hall.
Directors: Henrique Borela, Marcela Borela | Stars: Vinícius Curva de Vento, Marcos Caetano, Aristides de Sousa, Marciley Caetano
Votes: 18
18. Panquiaco (2020)
84 min | Documentary, Drama
Cebaldo, an indigenous dule from Panama, is a fishermen's assistant in a town in northern Portugal who suffers of nostalgia. In his loneliness, memories takes him away from his daily ... See full summary »
Director: Ana Elena Tejera | Stars: Cebaldo de León, Fernando Fernández
Votes: 44
19. Piola (2019)
102 min | Drama
Two friends spend their time making rap music. One night they find a weapon, while a girl loses her dog. Although seemingly unrelated, these stories are intimately linked, telling the difficult passage from adolescence to adulthood.
Director: Luis Pérez García | Stars: Pascal Balart, Steevens Benjamin, Matías Burgos, Camila Celedón
Votes: 379
20. Tragic Jungle (2020)
TV-MA | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
To escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.
Director: Yulene Olaizola | Stars: Indira Rubie Andrewin, Gilberto Barraza, Mariano Tun Xool, Eligio Meléndez
Votes: 1,107
21. 1982 (II) (2019)
92 min | History
Excerpts from the TV program "60 minutos" and other archive material, primarily originating from the Argentine military dictatorship, document the 74-day Falklands War of 1982.
Director: Lucas Gallo
Votes: 59
22. El tiempo perdido (2020)
102 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A group of people have been gathering for the last eighteen years at a bar in Buenos Aires to read the same book over and over: "In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust.
Director: María Alvarez | Star: Erenice Lohan
Votes: 40
23. Splinters (2020)
69 min | Documentary
On November 3, 1995, the Río Tercero Military Munitions Factory, the emblematic industry of my hometown, exploded. Thousands of shells were fired against the city that had produced them. I ... See full summary »
Director: Natalia Garayalde | Star: Esteban Garayalde
Votes: 136
24. History of the Occult (2020)
82 min | Horror
For the final broadcast of '60 Minutes to Midnight', the most famous journalistic show on television, host Adrián Marcato could expose a conspiracy that links the Government to a coven of witches.
Director: Cristian Ponce | Stars: Germán Baudino, Nadia Lozano, Héctor Ostrofsky, Agustín Recondo
Votes: 1,661
26. Lxs chicxs de las motitos (2020)
84 min | Drama
Juliana and Lautaro live in a poor neighborhood surrounded by policemen. They are in love, and they are facing an unwanted pregnancy. They don't know what to do. Who will they turn to avoid... See full summary »
Directors: Inés María Barrionuevo, Gabriela Vidal | Stars: Erika Cuello, Carolina Godoy, Carla Gusolfino, Ignacio Pedrone
Votes: 69
27. The Frogs (2020)
78 min | Documentary, Drama
Each week, a young woman visits the man she loves, who is locked up in jail a few hours' drive from Buenos Aires. Alone, determined, she copes as best she can to fulfil her mission (provide... See full summary »
Director: Edgardo Castro | Stars: Carlos De Jesus Cabral, Nahuel Cabral, Sabrina Cabral, Edgardo David Caseres
Votes: 60
28. Mamá, mamá, mamá (2020)
65 min | Drama
A veil of sadness lies over the oppressively hot summer days. Cleo dives into daydreams with her cousins, the girls share secret signs and rituals. Flowing gently, in impressionistic images... See full summary »
Director: Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière | Stars: Agustina Milstein, Chloé Cherchyk, Camila Zolezzi, Matilde Creimer Chiabrando
Votes: 298
29. A Common Crime (2020)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
Cecilia is a sociology teacher. One night the son of her maid desperately knocks on the door of her house. She doesn't open. The next day, his body shows up murdered by the police. Cecilia begins to be haunted by the young man's ghost.
Director: Francisco Márquez | Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martínez, Eliot Otazo, Cecilia Rainero
Votes: 301
30. Un cuerpo estalló en mil pedazos (2020)
91 min | Documentary
A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. His works had no scripts and only existed in the fugacity of the moment. Jorge Bonino was an unclassifiable ... See full summary »
Director: Martín Sappia
Votes: 21
31. A Storm Was Coming (2020)
87 min | Documentary, Crime
King Ebwera of the Bubi is captured 1904 by the Spaniards controlling Ecuadorian Guinea. The initial official reports tell a heroic story. But further investigations and the oral memories of the descendants tell a much darker one.
Director: Javier Fernández Vázquez | Stars: Paciencia Tobilleri Bepe, Ricardo Bulá Bitema, Nieves Posa Bohome, Justo Bolekia Boleká
Votes: 46
32. Let the Lights Move Away (2020)
67 min | Fantasy
Rapa lives a solitary life in the mountain, until one day a group of travelers arrives in the place and alters his routine. As the landscape is transformed around him, Rapa sinks into his memories when he finds an old photograph.
Director: Javier Favot | Stars: Nicolas Antico, Martín Donalisio, Lucas Ingignoli
Votes: 16
33. The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)
70 min | Drama
The story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román
Votes: 187
34. Homelands (2020)
63 min | Documentary, Drama
A girl born in the former Yugoslavia returns to a mountain village her grandmother fled during the Greek Civil War.The place has become a trendy ski resort and no longer corresponds to her family memories.
Director: Jelena Maksimovic | Stars: Jelena Angelovski, Kostas Siapalinis, Marios Siapalinis, Trifonas Siapalinis
Votes: 39
35. Red Moon Tide (2020)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a village where the sea and the moon are near, there was a monster, three witches, many ghosts and a shipwrecked man.
Director: Lois Patiño | Stars: Rubio de Camelle, Ana Marra, Carmen Martínez, Pilar Rodlos
Votes: 872
36. My Dear Spies (2020)
134 min | Documentary
Were my grandparents Soviet spies in the 30s in Paris? I bring to my brother Pierre a suitcase full of memories. Our investigation starts between France and Russia, yesterday and today.
Director: Vladimir Léon | Stars: Anne Benhaïem, Serge Bozon, Julie Desprairies, Karina Karaeva
Votes: 38
37. There Are Not Thirty-six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse (2020)
63 min | Documentary
A film professor becomes obsessed with a phrase said by an old film director and investigates its origin, not realizing that perhaps he is making a film himself.
Director: Nicolás Zukerfeld | Stars: Ida Lupino, Raoul Walsh, John Wayne
Votes: 41
38. Shady River (2020)
82 min | Documentary
How to film something we're not allowed to experience? How to articulate what we can't say? How to register the sound of something soundless? What's the place women have in a mining town?
Director: Tatiana Mazú González
Votes: 15
39. The Exit of the Trains (2020)
175 min | Documentary, History
This is a documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: in the city of Iasi, on the 29th of June 1941, more than... See full synopsis »
Directors: Adrian Cioflâncã, Radu Jude | Stars: Catalin Anchidin, Larisa Crunteanu
Votes: 153
40. In the Country of Last Things (2020)
89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a city in ruins, a woman looks for her missing brother. Adaptation to the big screen of the Paul Auster sci-fi novel "In the Country of Last Things".
Director: Alejandro Chomski | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Juan Fernández, Ruairi Rhodes, Christopher Von Uckermann
Votes: 94
41. En la frontera (2020)
78 min
Directors: José Celestino Campusano, Horacio Florentín | Stars: María Laura Álvarez, Sergio Sarria, Claudio Santorelli, Bárbara Pombo
Votes: 15
42. Immortal (II) (2020)
96 min | Sci-Fi
Ana returns to Buenos Aires to claim her inheritance. She meets her father's close friend Dr. Benedetti, a scientist, where he has discovered a doorway to another dimension which allows Ana to reconvene with the dead.
Director: Fernando Spiner | Stars: Belén Blanco, Analía Couceyro, Daniel Fanego, Diego Velázquez
Votes: 52
43. The Siamese Bond (2020)
80 min | Drama
Estela and her mother Clota must travel from Junín, where they live, to the town of Costa Bonita, in Necochea, to see some apartments that Estela's father left her.
Director: Paula Hernández | Stars: Rita Cortese, Valeria Lois, Sergio Prina
Votes: 334
45. Vicenta (2020)
69 min | Documentary, Drama
Vicenta lives with Laura, her 19-year-old daughter, who suffers from a developmental delay. Laura is pregnant, the product of rape by a family member. She is legally allowed to have an ... See full summary »
Director: Darío Doria | Star: Liliana Herrero
Votes: 93
46. Unlimited Edition (2020)
75 min | Drama
Cinematic meeting between four writers who are also actors, directors, teachers and playwrights. Four stories, four protagonists: two men, two women who reflect, in different ways, on ... See full summary »
Directors: Virginia Cosin, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Santiago Loza, Romina Paula | Stars: Eugenia Alonso, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Cynthia Edul, Camila Fabbri
Votes: 25
47. Medium (2020)
70 min | Documentary
Portrait of the artist and pianist Margarita Fernández.
Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky | Star: Margarita Fernández
Votes: 16
48. Atarrabi & Mikelats (2020)
123 min | Drama, Fantasy
Adapts the Basque legend of Atarrabi and Mikelats, the tragic story of the sons of goddess Mari-Mother Earth- who are given to the devil for him to raise them.
Director: Eugène Green | Stars: Saia Hiriart, Lukas Hiriart, Ainara Leemans, Thierry Biscary
Votes: 99
49. The Last City (2020)
100 min | Drama
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war.
Director: Heinz Emigholz | Stars: John Erdman, Dorothy Ko, Jonathan Perel, Susanne Sachße
Votes: 54
50. The Woman Who Ran (2020)
77 min | Drama
While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-hee, Lee Eun-mi, Song Seon-mi
Votes: 3,592
51. Come True (2020)
Unrated | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington
Votes: 11,099
52. Meander (2020)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman finds herself locked in a series of strange tunnels full of deadly traps.
Director: Mathieu Turi | Stars: Gaia Weiss, Peter Franzén, Romane Libert, Frédéric Franchitti
Votes: 11,369
53. Teddy (I) (2020)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.
Directors: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma | Stars: Anthony Bajon, Christine Gautier, Ludovic Torrent, Guillaume Mattera
Votes: 1,853
54. Cortázar & Antín: Cartas iluminadas (2020)
66 min | Documentary
Director: Cinthia V. Rajschmir | Stars: Manuel Antin, María Marta Antín, Ricardo Aronovich, Graciela Borges
Votes: 12
55. La cifra impar (1962)
85 min | Drama, Mystery
An Argentinean couple living in Paris receive a letter from the man's mother, in which she gives them regards from his brother. Confusion arises, as the couple know the brother to have died from an illness.
Director: Manuel Antin | Stars: Lautaro Murúa, María Rosa Gallo, Sergio Renán, Milagros de la Vega
Votes: 158
56. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Unrated | 260 min | Documentary, History, War
Divided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution ... See full summary »
Directors: Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas, Edgardo Suárez, Julio Troxler
Votes: 1,182
57. Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Musical
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Marina Vlady
Votes: 690
58. The South (1988)
R | 127 min | Drama
The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz
Votes: 1,065
59. The Journey (1992)
R | 150 min | Adventure, Drama
Follows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Walter Quiroz, Soledad Alfaro, Ricardo Bartis, Christina Becerra
Votes: 829
60. Momentos (1981)
90 min | Drama
A married woman with a traumatic past embarks on an affair with a younger married man.
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Graciela Dufau, Miguel Ángel Solá, Héctor Bidonde, Silvia Folgar
Votes: 44
61. I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Leonor, a widow in a small South American town, gives birth to Charlotte, a dwarf. The mother not only provides a rich childhood for her daughter, she erases any clues her daughter might ... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Luisina Brando, Alejandra Podesta, Betiana Blum
Votes: 397 | Gross: $0.25M
62. The Owners (2013)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Sergio and his family work in north of Argentina. When their employers travel abroad they moved to the main house and they have fun pretendig being it owners. Suddenly, the older patriarch's daughter arrives to the house.
Directors: Ezequiel Radusky, Agustín Toscano | Stars: Rosario Bléfari, Germán De Silva, Sergio Prina, Cynthia Avellaneda
Votes: 183
63. Silvia Prieto (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman in her late-twenties called Silvia Prieto wants to improve herself. Her discovery of a second person also called Silvia Prieto will change her life forever. Maybe not the changes she hoped for.
Director: Martín Rejtman | Stars: Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelli, Vicentico, Marcelo Zanelli
Votes: 1,587
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