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In January 1959, around 9,000 workers at the Lisandro De la Torre state-owned meatpacking plant began a strike against its privatization. While President Arturo Frondizi traveled to the United States, an unprecedented popular uprising erupted in the Mataderos neighborhood. The documentary chronicles the testimony of the protagonists of the now legendary takeover of the meatpacking plant to analyze the close ties that meat, politics, and violence have had throughout Argentine history.
Why is the bombing of Buenos Aires a forgotten event? Why was such a massacre carried out? Why were the victims never remembered? Is the bombing on June 16, 1955, a prelude to the violence that the country would experience in the years to come? These are all questions that the documentary seeks to answer through the voices of some of its protagonists and the reflections of cultural, journalistic, and political figures in the country.
It tells the story of one of the greatest exponents of Argentine tango, who captivated audiences with his unique voice. Using previously unseen archival footage (home movies, unreleased recordings, interviews), anecdotes told by family, friends, and various figures from the artistic world, the documentary reconstructs Goyeneche's life through his own voice. An emotional and sensorial journey through the life of one of the greatest legends of Argentine popular culture.
Bernardo has turned 90 and is working to realize a dream: to make a film about art. He spends countless hours writing the script. He understands it's an arduous and complex task: What is art? When is there art? What is the purpose of art? Antonio, his friend, decides to collaborate, lending his knowledge and experience to the project. Marcelo meets Bernardo through Lucy, his partner of over 60 years, and finds him deep in his work, immersed in the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys inherent in any creative process. Watching him work, something of Bernardo's dream awakens in Marcelo a desire, another dream. He offers his help, while also asking to be able to capture Bernardo's daily work with his own eyes, thus creating his film. A dream that gradually shifts from the work Antonio sculpts on Bernardo's camera to Marcelo's gaze.
Tucumán 1975, a milestone in Argentine history and what would be one of the most tragic events intersect: the SMO (Compulsory military service) and the "Operative Independence". Through the story of those young people who made the "Colimba" we learn about their experiences, from the day of the raffle to the details of life in the barracks and the transfer to Mount. "SMO, the forgotten battalion" tries to rescue from the oblivion imposed by official history, those young loons who lived those bloody years of our history from a trench in which destiny placed them, in a random way, through a lottery.
Musical documentary based on the stories of four women who studied to become nurses in the school of the Fundación Eva Perón in 1948, which was one of the institutions that helped pave the way for change for women in Argentina. The testimonies from the protagonists are reenacted in the form of a musical, in a film that combines archival footage and choreography.
It is the golden age of gangs, and one of the darkest times for the police, who are controlled by a group of millionaire commissioners sharing in the illicit businesses of Buenos Aires.
An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.
Hand in hand with Gaston Pauls, Todos contra Juan is a series that aired in 2008 on the America channel. The story deals with the life of Juan Perugia, who was very famous during his adolescence for participating in the most successful youth soap opera in the 1990s.
A foreign woman returns to her hometown with another identity. Her presence raises suspicions, but no one imagines the truth: she is the key piece of a bloody revenge. Having everyone's trust, she puts her plan into action and commits the most brutal crimes in a town that hides more secrets than it seems.