Butterfly

The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.

Delfina returns from New York to a small riverside town in the province of Buenos Aires. There she visits a tomb of an older woman and one of a younger woman, named Julia, who is identical to her.

ELENA and CAMILO are old neighbors. Like children they spy each other and flirt in silence. New years eve come. ANA and DANIEL, their grandchildren live a romantic re encounter. PABLO discovers the magic from the first kiss with a new neighbor. A night of wishes and definitions.

Gabriel has just moved in with Juan. Shy and reserved, Gabo resists Juan’s wandering hands and intense gaze. With a parade of beauties filing out of Juan’s bedroom, his machismo seems firmly entrenched. Yet, the attraction between the two men is undeniable. What begins as a sexual arrangement born of proximity soon evolves into a captivating, tender, and intimate relationship - one that is as sweet as it is heartbreaking.

Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.

The principal and teachers at an elementary school receive devastating news: the mother of Bianca, a 9-year-old student, has suffered a serious accident while on her way to pick her up. Faced with the difficulty of locating other family members, they decide to create together a support and protection space for the girl.

Martín, a young student, gets injured during a swimming class. Sebastián, the PE teacher, takes him to the hospital. When they leave, he offers to drive him home, but Martín is planning to spend the night at a classmate's house, since there is no one at his own home.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

Ezequiel is home alone while his parents are away. He bears the burden of desiring other boys and keeping it a secret—until he meets "Mono," an attractive skater who represents something more than the desire and experimentation he was seeking.

What are the rules that determine how attraction and desire are set free? Glances, unexpected smiles, confiding in unknown women. Long cherished fantasies, intimate friendships and unexpected meetings. In Volume 2 of the Sexual Tension diptych, Marco Berger and Marcelo Mónaco take us on a journey through the twists and turns of female seduction: two guests of a hostel become roommates (and more); a keen shop assistant helps a woman uncertain about what dress to buy; the outset of a great passion between two girls during a picnic, even though one of them has a boyfriend. In the film we also find a conversation about Woody Allen between a waitress and a woman, which goes too far; and two high-class escorts who discover that they are attracted to each other, when they are in bed with a client. The film finally shows what could happen, but never did happen, and will probably never happen, to two thirty-year-old women. Maybe it would be better not to have sex with people we love. Sex ...

Pedro arrives at the coast and reunites with Maxi, whom he hasn't seen since childhood. Hoping to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, Maxi asks Pedro to pretend to be his boyfriend. Pedro agrees, amused, but fails to realize that this game could turn into reality.

Actor Juan Debré has spent a lifetime playing the hero in a TV series while remaining detached from his own identity. When diagnosed with a terminal illness, he embarks on a surreal journey to Belgium, birthplace of his childhood comic book idol, in search of meaning and perhaps redemption.

Robert Law is 30 years old and lives with the obsession of giving his first kiss and breaking a world record. While taking care of a house in the suburbs of Buenos Aires temporarily, he runs into Laura who accidentally steps on Robert's hand, and unbeknownst to her he decides to follow her through the streets and they strike up a strange friendship, deciding to beat the world record with her.

The author climbs to the rooftop of an old building to finish his work. But the place has already been taken over; one floor below is a brothel. As he continues writing, everything takes a turn for the worse, and tragedy unfolds before his eyes. A dreamlike film about the whispers of Fernando Pessoa's work. El autor sube a la terraza de un viejo edificio para terminar su Obra. Pero el lugar ya ha sido colonizado, un piso abajo hay un prostíbulo. Mientras avanza en la escritura todo se va torciendo y la tragedia culmina frente a sus ojos. Película soñada sobre el susurro de la Obra de Fernando Pessoa.

Based on real events, the life and struggles of a student of the Buenos Aires National College during Argentina's worst dictatorship.

A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.

It’s the first day of shooting a low-budget independent film. Juan, the director, tries to shoot a sex scene with Malena and Julián, two inexperienced young actors. But he also secretly keeps the camera running in between takes, in an attempt to capture brief moments of intimacy. Hours go by and the scene doesn’t seem to come out right. Weariness, repetition, and communication problems pile up as Juan tries to convince the actress to show more of her body. Violence will emerge as the shooting crumbles.

In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Juan Perón to preserve her body for display, and Argentines flocked to be near "Evita". Three years later, when his government was overthrown by a military coup, Perón fled the country before he could make arrangements for the transportation of his wife's body. The military junta now in control kidnapped the corpse; so afraid were they of Eva's symbolic power that they even made it illegal to utter her name.

Claudia is 17 years old. She is forced to go live with her father, Marcelo, after 15 years of being away. Over a summer trip, the past plays a fundamental role in understanding and reconciling with the present.

A young writer sends secret love letters to her neighbor, whom she spies on her window every day. He reads and collects them until one day, lacking inspiration, he appropriates one of them and sends it to his beloved. From here on, these letters of love, and some other heartbreaking ones, will travel between different characters who will steal each other's words, until they end up halfway around the world.

After twelve years away, Martina and her mother travel to Villa Mercedes where their relatives live, including cousins she has not seen since childhood. Their mothers have a distant relationship due to problems in the family business. A tragedy allows the cousins to bond as they embark on a journey to reconnect with one another.

A teaching assistant at a private Buenos Aires school begins obsessively spying on her students in the early 1980s, as the public rises up against the military dictatorship.

Familia para armar tells the story of the emotive encounter between a father and his teenage daughter after a long and traumatic separation. Ernesto is an obfuscated and distant father and Julia a hardheaded daughter wanting to be loved and to rebuild the relationship with her father.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

Andrea, in search of her biological family, feels stalked by an invisible threat. Other women before them have suffered the same fate. Twenty years earlier, on the other side of the world, Camille, fascinated by Marie, tries to warn her of a threat hanging over her.

The object of affection is a boy who never speaks (something that can work wonders in a film of this length), but whose crotch outline seems to be everywhere the lustful visitor (Javier De Pietro, previously seen in Berger’s Absent and Hawaii) casts his eyes.

She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires. She seduces, has sex with them and kills them. But one of those men is a police officer who is investigating her crimes. Running away from him she meets a dealer with whom she stars a relationship. This romance unravels a war between her three personalities: the monster woman, the sensual woman and the human woman who can still love.

Three friends at a birthday party decide to push their limits, triggering some of their sexual fantasies and deepest fears. One night, one shot, one chance to feel something different.

Three teenage boys love soccer, are troublemakers, and always lie to their teachers and miss class. They are always up to no good. And they aren't alone. Their families are surrounded by restlessness. It almost seems like a so-so movie about teens from Argentina. But when one of the boys steals a gun from another boy's house, things start to take a different turn. There is an accident, and the boy disappears. Where did he go? Sometime later, the two boys and the missing boy's sister head off to an unknown location. With the accident as the starting point, the film turns into a little odyssey within the heart of Buenos Aires.

Juan having a coffee. Two old acquaintances who he would prefer not to meet. An anecdote I'd rather not hear. Juan gets lost in better thoughts.

In a park, a young man spots his ex-girlfriend in the distance. Although he yearns to get closer, they are both in the company of her: she by a new partner, and he by a friend determined to convince him, with an extravagant theory, that he and his ex are incompatible.

On a night full of familiar and unfamiliar faces, parties and paranoia, Lucas walks the streets of Buenos Aires as usual, devoted to his noble task of ensuring the enjoyment of others, while dealing with his mind about to overflow.

Irene and Juan escape a get together with friends to talk about the state of their relationship. No matter how hard they try, nothing will be the same.