Seven days, fifteen films
Argentine cinema invaded Berlin for the second time
For 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.
In its second edition the festival offered a panorama full of detail: different stories, different forms, new structures and ways of telling that refuse the beaten path.
The films
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El incendioJuan Schnitman, 2015, 95 Min.
A couple is about to buy an apartment. The appointment falls through, and a single day becomes a chamber piece about pent-up anger, closeness and whether two people still want to stay together.
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La princesa de FranciaMatías Piñeiro, 2014, 70 Min.
Víctor returns from Mexico to Buenos Aires and gathers his old theatre group for a radio play after Shakespeare. The reunions set old attachments back in motion.
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Si je suis perdu, c'est pas graveSantiago Loza, 2014, 95 Min.
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La SaladaJuan Martín Hsu, 2015, 92 Min.
Three stories of migrants around La Salada, the vast market on the edge of Buenos Aires: a Korean family, a Bolivian trader, a Taiwanese video-shop owner.
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El perro MolinaJosé Celestino Campusano, 2014, 88 Min.
Molina gets by on the outskirts of Buenos Aires doing the jobs nobody else will take. A rough portrait of loyalty and violence at the city's edge.
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MauroHernán Rosselli, 2014, 80 Min.
Mauro forges banknotes in a workshop in Buenos Aires. A precise, unhurried look at craft, trust and the milieu in which both are traded.
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Juana a los doceMartín Shanly, 2014, 75 Min.
Juana is twelve, attends a Jewish school in Buenos Aires and barely speaks. The film stays with her — in breaks, in class, in the uncertainty of that age.
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GulliverMaría Alché, 2014, 25 Min.
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The Mad Half HourLeonardo Brzezicki, 2015, 22 Min.
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La reinaManuel Abramovich, 2013, 19 Min.
A girl is being made up as carnival queen. Costume, crown, gazes — and the silence beneath it all.
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Pude ver un pumaEduardo Williams, 2011, 17 Min.
Teenagers move across the rooftops of their neighbourhood until the ground beneath them disappears. A short film that tips from everyday observation into dream.
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El pasado rotoM. Morgenfeld & S. Schjaer, 2015, 16 Min.
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Mujer 100 CabezasPaulo Pécora, 2015, 12 Min.
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Enfrentar animales salvajesJerónimo Quevedo, 2015, 8 Min.
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JaponesitaIgnacio Masllorens, 2014, 5 Min.