Paloma Efrón, better known as "Blackie", was one of the most outstanding Argentine women of the 20th century, especially for her contributions to the development of television. Few know about his beginnings as a jazz singer or his forays into cinema and theater. This documentary seeks to remember her long career, evoking her through one of her most outstanding skills: conversation.
It is a sweltering day in Buenos Aires, Miserere square and the railway station are packed. Almost unnoticed, a group of guys prostitute themselves for little money. Their thoughts emerge, deadening the oppressive hustle and bustle of the square and the station. Miserere reveals an invisible problem: the prostitution of needy men in the big Latin American cities.
In the 60s and thanks to the epistolary exchange, the young filmmaker Manuel Antín and the famous writer Julio Cortázar devised four films. An ocean away, a fruitful collaboration and genuine friendship are born.
Through important testimonies, the director Miguel Rodríguez Arias intends to reveal facts that intertwine the life of the singer with that of his people. His desires, his virtues, his defects and his defeats. It is the story of a captivating voice, the reflection of a soul that transcends borders and languages with its art.
María Elena Walsh forever revolutionized the language and imagination of children's shows. But very few know the importance of his works for adults, his political convictions against dictatorships and his defense of women's rights. Topics addressed by this work that covers the main conflicts experienced in his personal and professional life. From his adolescence as a precocious poet in an oppressive society, until his later years, after leaving the stage during the last Argentine military government.
Susana Rinaldi has earned a place of honor in the world of tango. Her love for literature and words led her first to the theater and then to tango and its poets. We travel through her life through archival images, while her voice guides us with readings of selected tangos and authors.
After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and intimate documentary spans her six-year journey into a new light.
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During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in.
A man goes to a sorcerer to hasten his reunion with a woman, and the sorcerer gives him a mask that accelerates time.
While growing up on the pampas, a young boy becomes fascinated with nature and the mysteries of the human soul.
Helena is a talented singer in Buenos Aires. Just as she and her band get a residency at a prestigious theater in the city, the boyfriend she's mad about coldly announces that he doesn't love her any more. The film is punctuated by intense bursts of tango. Every song moves the story along, providing an insight into the characters and access to the protagonist's feelings: nostalgia, passion, sadness, and joy in turn. The lyrical and musical wealth of tango, brilliantly performed by Eugenia Ramírez Miori, unites the two stories, past and present. 'La cantante de tango' is a poignant auteur film about a woman trying to get back on her feet after a devastating break-up.
Film that includes three short films by different authors about love: "O pacto" by Eduardo Coutinho, "Terrible Night" by Rodolfo Kuhn, and "Magic World" by Helvio Soto.
The story of a sixty-year-old woman, who is introducing us in an amalgam of sensations, emotions and deep experiences through profound and exhaustive thoughts, recounted in an intimate tone.
The disputes between two leaders, set in 1930s Cuidad de Buenos Aires.
After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.
A terrifying story based on a fact occurred in Buenos Aires, early 1967. Reported in "La Nación" and all the other newspapers, after the death of a woman interned at the Instituto de Detención para Mujeres. Doctor Vallejos, the magistrate in charge of the inquest, gets enmeshed in personal intrigue, organized corruption, lust and vice in which apparently all the penitentiary personnel and an organized gang of dangerous inmates are involved, operating within the prison itself.
A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
