Viva Argentina!
To celebrate the country's World Cup victory, we present a selection of Argentinian cinema.
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Native Son
Pierre Chenal • Argentina • 1951 • A story of murder and grief in segregated America
Preceded by a special introduction by film historians Eddie Muller and Jacqueline Najima Stewart.
One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's Native Son (first published in 1940) exposed t...
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Liverpool
Lisandro Alonso • 2008 • Argentina • Follows a merchant sailor en route to his hometown.
Farrel has been at sea for years. Steeped in the quotidian routines of life on a merchant ship, one day Farrel requests to disembark. His goal is to visit his ailing mother in Ushuaia. Equipped solely with a...
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The Tenth Man
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Daniel Burman • Argentina • 2016 • A lighthearted comedy set in Argentina’s Orthodox community.
Ariel has spent many years away from Buenos Aires. One day he returns home to reconnect with his father, Usher, who has founded a charity foundation in Once, the city's bustling Jewish...
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Hermia & Helena
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Matías Piñeiro • 2016 • Argentina-USA • Blends the whimsy of youth with the cadences of theatrical text.
Blending the whimsy of youth with the jocular cadences of theatrical text, Hermia & Helena weaves an ever-expanding web of relations entangling a young woman as she comes into ...