2026
Nuestra Tierra · Humboldt ForumINVASION returns to the Humboldt Forum's open-air cinema. Lucrecia Martel's documentary on the Javier Chocobar case, presented by María Alché — winner at the BFI London Film Festival.
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Past editions
The archive
From the first "invasion" of Kino Babylon in 2014 to open-air cinema at the Humboldt Forum: every edition, series and milestone of the festival.
13Editions
78Feature films
18Short films
2025
Kill the Jockey"Kill the Jockey" by Luis Ortega, presented by actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and writer Fabián Casas — in Spanish and English, open-air at the Humboldt Forum. Casas wrote the screenplay for Lisandro Alonso's "Jauja" and co-wrote this film.
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2024
PuanFor the second year running, INVASION represented Argentine cinema in the Schlüterhof of the Humboldt Forum: "Puan" by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, as part of "Box Office Around the World", which brings box-office hits from around the globe to an open-air screen across three August weekends. The film was presented by the writer Alan Pauls.
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2023
Ten years of INVASIONFor INVASION's tenth anniversary we ran a double programme: we showed "Trenque Lauquen" and talked with director Laura Citarella at the Passage Kino — together with the Instituto Cervantes, Latinale and Grandfilm. For the first time we were at the Humboldt Forum, presenting "Argentina, 1985" by Santiago Mitre, with Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani, open-air. Philosopher Darío Sztajnszrajber introduced it with a talk on cinema and democracy, in Spanish with simultaneous English translation.
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2022
Back to the cinemaThis year we returned to the cinema. With the Instituto Cervantes as partner, we showed two films at the Passage Kino and welcomed lead actress Érica Rivas to present them. And we stayed online too: inspired by genre cinema, we selected three Argentine science-fiction films, available for free.
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2021
Let the wind mess up your hairThis year's programme was especially varied — not only because it gathered fiction, documentary and hybrid forms, women and men directors, co-productions between Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Norway, but because the subjects, aesthetics and ways of telling were so different.
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2020
The seventh edition went onlineIn its seventh edition the festival expanded across all of Germany in an online version. The programme included six films, one selected from each previous edition, introduced by their directors and free to watch all weekend.
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2019
Berlin – Buenos AiresWe were guests at the Wolf Kino in Berlin with a selection gathering the boldest of Argentine film production of the past two years — opening with "Flora no es un canto a la vida" by Iair Said, followed by a tasting of Argentine wines and specialities with live music. Screenings were followed by filmmaker talks and closed with a poetry performance with Latinale: Teddy Williams presented "Parsi", Mariano Blatt read from his work. Together with the Cinemateca Argentina, the Mar del Plata festival and the Goethe-Institut we also organised "Tres cineastas berlineses: Heise, Schanelec, Hartmann" at the Sala Lugones of the Teatro San Martín.
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2018
Temporada de chicasThis year's programme focused exclusively on debut films by Argentine women directors, made between 2016 and 2017 and premiered at festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, Toronto and Venice. To open the series we chose a paradigmatic film of Argentine and Latin American cinema: "La Ciénaga" by Lucrecia Martel. Beyond the Wolf Kino in Berlin, we widened our horizon and brought INVASION to Munich, Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe as well.
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2017
Double bill in WiesbadenThis year we presented a double bill at the Caligari Kino in Wiesbaden: Lisandro Alonso's latest film "Jauja", awarded at Cannes in 2014, and "El Movimiento" by Benjamín Naishtat, named best film at the Mar del Plata festival in 2015.
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2016
There and backThe third edition brought sixteen features and shorts to Berlin — from "Mi amiga del parque" by Ana Katz and "La luz incidente" by Ariel Rotter to "El Movimiento" by Benjamín Naishtat and Melisa Liebenthal's debut "Las Lindas". And we organised the first complete retrospective of Angela Schanelec's work at the Sala Lugones in Buenos Aires, together with the Goethe-Institut.
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2015
Seven days, fifteen filmsFor seven days, seven features and eight shorts at the historic Kino Moviemento showed the stimulating and diverse state of Argentine cinema. INVASION is a celebration — and a stocktaking.
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2014
The first invasionTo launch, the festival "invades" the legendary Kino Babylon in Berlin-Mitte: ten films across one month, flanked by concerts, performances, exhibitions, readings and food tastings — marking 20 years of the Buenos Aires–Berlin city partnership.
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Primavera
Primavera de Documentales · onlineAlongside the festival editions, INVASION curates the documentary series "Primavera de Documentales" — a springtime of Argentine documentary film.
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