Martín Adjemián

Flesh on Flesh

Documentary on Argentine actress and sex symbol Isabel Sarli, including clips from her films and interviews with her and other actors.

The Dog Pound

David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.

On Probation

Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.

Palermo Hollywood

In a country that has been broken down and corupted by poverty, Pablo and Mario are best friends and local thieves. Although they come from very different backgrounds, they help each other out by commiting petty crimes that help Pablo support his family and Mario become independent from his own. In a twist of fate, they become involved in a kidnapping that goes sour. This tragedy triggers and unmasks a series of events that changes their lives forever. Now the two friends will be tested and their lives taken to the limit.

Potestad

A 60 year old medic tries to reconstruct a traumatic fact that changed his life while he is in the subway: the lost of his ten years old daughter.

Inheritance

Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.

La Ciénaga

The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.

Gallito ciego

Facundo is a normal and normal boy, who needs a job to survive. He has just finished high school and is in a critical situation that does not allow him to continue studying. This is how he begins to wander around the city for several days until one morning, through a classified ad, he meets Doctor Benavidez, a man of respectable appearance, who offers him a job in decent conditions. But not everything is what it seems.

Tesoro mío

Soon to turn 40, Carlos is a humble bank clerk who feels that his life is a monotonous waste of time. When Carlos begins to feel condemned forever to a life of quiet despair, he is presented with an opportunity to rip off a bank.

Only People

A young doctor recently received must face the difficulties of his profession in a public hospital, proposing to make true the axiom learned in the faculty "you can not always be cured, but you must know how to care."

The Revenge

Pablo Nazareno is a 26-year-old guy who works at a science laboratory in a low work. After the mysterious death of one of the employees, weird things start to happen in the laboratory, and Pablo finds out that the lab may close. The arrival of Lucía Navarro, a beautiful computing expert, makes Pablo feel that he MUST discover what is going on in the lab... but this may put him in danger. There is only one thing that can give strength to Pablo: the love he starts to feel by Lucía.

Bad Times

Four independent short stories but they have in common that they happen in Buenos Aires during legislative elections. A candidate for deputy, Carlos Celestini floods the city with his image and can be seen in each of the stories.

Sleepwalker

In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

Moebius

Deep within Buenos Aires's labyrinthine subway system, a train mysteriously disappears along with its 30 passengers. The subway officials are greatly troubled and call in topographer Daniel Pratt to help them find it. Unfortunately, the tunnels are so vast and complex, that Pratt needs his mentor Hugo Mistein to help him. Unfortunately, he has vanished too.

Lola Mora

The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

Sotto Voce

Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.

Historias Breves I: Dónde y cómo Oliveira perdió a Achala

Two men of low life travel by car under a sweltering sun. They do not find the place they are looking for, lost in a remote Argentine countryside. They arrive at a workshop to ask questions and events seem to take off. The short was part of "Short Stories I" (1995).

Historias Breves 1

The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.

Facundo, la sombra del tigre

The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.

Mikel's Death

Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and friend to Mikel in his coming out, and even the local priest.

Epilogue

The film tells the story of two writers in love with the same woman. For years, they have worked together. One day they separate. Ten years later and Ditirambo meets up with Rocabruno, at the very least to tell him his latest story. An epilogue that closes what they together have opened.

Paper Heart

Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco regime, with the help of his godson and protegé Tomás. The threat of economic bankruptcy, the appearance of Julia, a young journalist from last university generations, the background of the world of tabloids (tricks used by celebrities to remain so, reports sold exclusively by interested parties, photos of Stolen nudes that have been previously agreed) and what is behind the covers of magazines that weekly buy people eager for gossip form the rest of the plot.

Cuentos para una escapada

With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.

Tú estás loco Briones

Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especially with one, Sr. Angustias with whom he is beginning to feel things

The Carrot Queen

Ursula Alejandra Nicholson, the Carrot Queen, an extravagant American millionaire, arrives in Spain. J.J., a suave and ambitious executive, decides to become involved in the American carrot industry. To do so, he will take advantage of an unhappy bookseller, pulling him into a delirious misadventure that serves as a political satire.

El familiar

A supernatural mythological being gives riches to those who agree with him at the cost of the lives of the subjects of the earth.

Bajo el signo de la patria

Aspects of the life of General Manuel Belgrano since he took command of the Army of the North until, together with his men, he defeated the enemy in the battle of Salta in February 1813.

Invasion

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.