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Las calles could be regarded as a film about words, about describing and naming, about secrets and confessions, and about language as the matter of memory. In a dialogue between generations, young people are responsible for elaborating the question, and School is the place that tries to come up with a technique for it. In turn, the elderly answer through their stories, which are basically the story of the town. And like the word –which is always a fiction– builds a reality, the film sustains its tone on that intermediate area in which a fictional setting provides the conditions for the pure documentary genre to mark the pace and reach out to people.
Ramiro is a bar cook. Hernán is an unemployed technician. Nora is a nurse in a public hospital. Lucia sells books in a bookstore. Four stories and a black and white city with persistent rain. None of them know each other, they are only inhabitants of the same city.
Collective film made from digitalized footage from the collection of Argentinian nitrate films of the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, made on the occasion of its anniversary.
Eva, a film editor, and her assistant Rami are working on a film about blind people. A melancholy reflection on cinema and images.
After being unemployed for several months, Hernán attends a job interview to apply for a position in a call center.
A defect within Celutel, the Telecommunication Corporation, affects cell phone lines starting with area code 153. Users from Cordoba, struggle to communicate and this leads to many absurd situations around the Corporation and its employees; who try to solve the user's problems; and at the same time, their own problems. With neurotic and paradoxical situations, taken to the absurd, Incommunicado is a comedy that plays with the communication phenomena.
Ana transcribes the news of a crime committed a few nights ago in the city. Surrounded by her colleagues, Ana’s eyes perceive something strange; the killer’s look will be fixed on her.
Those who rebel against authority figures disobey. This film echoes “Cordobazo” — a popular rebellion in Cordoba against the Argentine military dictatorship in 1969 — through the story of Alicia, a trolleybus driver who joins an insurrection against an oppressive regime.
A contemporary dance group performs a rehearsal close to the premiere of the work. The existing tension, and enmity in the group, will make them release their violence. After this explosion of blows, they remained calm, as if nothing had happened.
The hypocrites tells the story of Nicolás, a young cameraman who works filming social events, but doesn’t feel fulfilled with his profession. In the middle of a high profile wedding, he accidentally records a compromising situation between the bride, Martina, and her brother, Esteban. Realising about what is in the tape, he sees the opportunity of leaving his tedious life behind through blackmailing the people involved. However, he does not know this secret could endanger his own life.