BAFICI 22TH OFFICIAL SELECTION 2021
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- DirectorLuciano JuncosStarsJuan MinujínOsvaldo LaportJuanma LaraRoberto Benítez, 'Bandido', is a popular singer who's about to leave his career behind. What do you do with your dreams when dissatisfaction has settled in every bone?
- DirectorGustavo GalvãoStarsAyla GrestaGustavo HalfeldSteven LangeKaren sings and plays the trumpet in a rock band in Brasília, but nobody cares. She tries her luck in Berlin but an incident forces her to start over in Brazil where there is still much to build.
- DirectorEva DansStarsEva DansRoberto SuárezLuciano DemarcoCarmen Vidal is a private detective addicted to pizza, beer and marijuana who fights against a criminal Senator to avenge the death of her colleague, in a modern film noir about self-improvement.
- DirectorChristopher SmallStarsPoppy Rivers-VincentOlivia ForrestIsabelle HaydenA filmmaker, Sacha Roth, unthinkingly attempts to turn a real-world assault into art, more or less obliterating all of her relationships in the process.
- DirectorJose Leandro CordovaStarsGabriela AcasoRodrigo AlcántaraIsrael AlmanzaA rich kid starts making a documentary about a punk gang. At the beginning he is only a spectator, he falls in love with the leader, and becomes part of the gang. At the end everyone dies. C. I. A.
- DirectorLucas Nazareno TurturroStarsMalena FilmusLola AbraldesFranco RizzaroTwo teenage sisters live in an isolated country house with their aunt and they work in the production of honey. When a cousin bursts into their lives, the perfect symbiosis that is their relationship will be endangered: while Mara starts a relationship with him, Juana becomes more obsessed with her sister, and the need to destroy whatever gets in her way grows. The hive is preparing for the arrival of a new queen bee.
- DirectorBruno Santamaría RazoStarsDayanara de Dios CisnerosEstrella Rodríguez PardoYulesci Castañeda ManjarrezTells the story of a teenager who dreams of dressing up as a woman in a fishing village in the Mexican state of Nayarit.
- DirectorCristián SánchezStarsRodrigo González LarrondoAna ZabalaBernabé MadrigalA schoolboy who is brilliant in math but loves art, a fetish businessman who collects pictures of girls, and an obsessive car cleaner who writes plays as a hobby are lured, what siren call, to the house of a cultural center. There, a woman, who seems to act as a seer, urges them to find a centennial tree planted on an ancient indigenous ceremonial center.
- DirectorJavier van de CouterStarsNina Vera Suárez BléfariJulieta Giménez ZapiolaPablo Saldías KlosterPablo and Rodrigo are thirty years old and are the real survivors of a student massacre in a town in Argentine Patagonia. Fifteen years ago, one of his classmates entered the school and, having seized his military father's gun, fired at close range, inaugurating the first school massacre in Latin America. Pablo and Rodrigo never saw the former comrade who shot them again, the immediate transfer made him invisible, never answered the questions he opened with his shots. Fifteen years later, Pablo and Rodrigo embark on a journey of more than a thousand kilometers, looking for him. To take revenge, to do some kind of justice? To stop dealing with the past? To hear their repentance, or simply want to find him to stop inventing him?
- DirectorAmalia UlmanStarsAle UlmanAmalia UlmanNacho VigalondoAmidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.
- DirectorAyar BlascoStarsSofía Gala CastiglioneAyar BlascoMartín PiroyanskyMaría Fernanda and Roberto have a tortuous relationship: they spend most of their day fighting. Problem is, their fights irradiate a laziness wave that overcomes little by little all of humanity. Both of them will have no other choice but to work out their problematic relationship, before the Laziness Wave destroys the world.
- DirectorCristián SánchezStarsNatalia MartinezJose DiezAnderson TudorAn art student dissatisfied with life feels a restlessness in her soul that prevents her from sleeping. One dawn he hears trumpets of an eagle that seem to announce an anomalous time, made evident in the discovery of a copy of The Immaculate Conception, the book by Paul Eluard and André Breton, in the incinerator of their apartment.
- DirectorMiguel LlansóStarsDaniel TadesseAgustín MateoGuillermo LlansóCIA Agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the mission of destroying a computer virus called "Soviet Union". They enter the system using VR but the mission turns into a trap.
- DirectorUlises RosellStarsMarcos LópezMarcos López has been one of the undisputed referents in Latin American photography for the past 40 years. Creator of the Latin Pop concept, he earned a place in the popular imagination, endowing Latin American identity with an unprecedented humor during the 1990s. Connoisseur of the games of representation, portrait photographer par excellence, Marcos opens his intimacy to us in this neurotic process of infinite moves and changes.
- DirectorJulián TroksbergStarsJuan Manuel Abal MedinaOctavio AcevesOraldo BritosDocumentary that covers part of the life of Isabel Perón (president of Argentina after the death of her husband). The film presents about 28 interviews with people who knew her and a compilation of historical events before and during her mandate, her dismissal and her exile in Spain.
- DirectorPaúl VenegasStarsJing FuLidan ZhuDay Min MengLei and Wong clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From there Lei plans to continue her journey to New York, but Chang, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. Wong unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China. Chang falls in love with Lei, whereas she becomes conscious that her "China dream" of reaching New York is in jeopardy. Víctor, a local young man becomes a possible escape. Mr. Lu, an older calligrapher, helps the young immigrants. Lei's rejection of Chang uncovers his ruthless personality. When a smuggling scheme sets Lei and Wong at a crossroads, they can only rely on each other to reach their freedom. The film recounts the anguish of the immigrant, where deep emotions are subject to masculine power relations and where individuals struggle to maintain their dignity.
- DirectorOskar LehemaaMikk MägiStarsMikk MägiOskar LehemaaJan UuspõldAn outrageous road movie about The Old Man and his grand-kids in a 24 hour race against time to stop a milky madman hell bent on killing his prized cow to save the world.
- DirectorJonathan PerelStarsJonathan PerelExplores the role of big corporations in helping pogroms by the Argentine junta against dissidents.
- DirectorMarcela LordyStarsSimone SpoladoreJavier DrolasFelipe RochaLóri is a lonely and melancholy woman who divides her time between her tasks as an elementary school teacher and her romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. By chance, she meets the Argentine Ulysses, a renowned professor of philosophy, self-centered and provocative. Even though Ulysses doesn't understand anything about women, it is with him that Lóri will learn to love and face her own loneliness. The film brings Clarice Lispector's novel "Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres" to our days.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyA cheerful grim look at the follies of the twentieth century, anchored in Gogol's proto-surrealist novella 'The Nose' and Shostakovich's opera of the same name.
- DirectorEduardo GiraltEmmanuel MassuStarsLa VaganciaA young group of millennial sicarios loiter around Sinaloa while trying to cope with growing up, their work, toxic masculinity and desires for the future. A profound portrait of the psyche of Narco lost youth.
- DirectorAnders MorgenthalerMikael WulffStarsMartin BrygmannJan GintbergIben HjejleA boy named Morgens (better known as Mugge) lives a happy life but everything changes when he's parents get divorced. He thinks the annual street party can save their family but can it really?
- DirectorIgnacio CeroiStarsIgnacio CeroiCharles LouvetMariana MartinelliAt the beginning, an objet trouvé: a video camera bought by the director at an online auction site during an extended visit to the south of France to see his girlfriend at the end of 2019.
- DirectorErnesto BacaStarsItzamná PonceHernán TrajtenbruetSilverioRoad trip between a couple through Mexican sites.
- DirectorLucas LarrieraStarsAndrés LarrieraLucas LarrieraArmengol TorresWho is Norberto Otero? Armengol Torres, Space World Week organizer, proposes Lucas to start an investigation on a parallel broadcast about moon landing in 1969 received by a radio amateur in his home in Avellaneda
- DirectorDaniel HymansonStarsJames ClancySarah HymansonRoberta MarkbreitA half-century into their marriage, two Chicago artists look back at their life together as they contend with the deterioration of their bodies and beloved home.
- DirectorKhavnAlexander KlugeStarsLilith StangenbergIan MadrigalA reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
- DirectorEmilio Silva TorresStarsRoxana BlancoManuel LamasMaría Inés PelfortThe story of "Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist," a 1988 Uruguayan cult film created by enigmatic filmmaker Manuel Lamas.