primetime

Cromo

Lucía Puenzo, Nicolás Puenzo, Pablo Fendrik

“CROMO” created by Lucía Puenzo and Nicolás Puenzo, Argentina
Directors Lucía Puenzo (XXY, Wakolda), Pablo Fendrik (Blood Appears, El Ardor) and Nicolás Puenzo team up for this timely eco-thriller, based on the real stories of a team of scientists that set out to expose environmental crimes in the dangerous and exotic wetlands of northern Argentina.

Contact: Historias Cinematográficas, recepcion@puenzo.com

platform

The Clan

Pablo Trapero

The new film from Argentine auteur Pablo Trapero (Crane World, White Elephant) recounts the astonishing true story of a seemingly normal middle-class family that trafficked in the kidnapping, ransoming and murder of the wealthy.

Contact: Carolina Agunin, cagunin@ks-films.com

wavelengths

Eva Doesn’t Sleep

Pablo Agüero

Gael García Bernal gives a supremely creepy performance in the new film from visionary Argentine director Pablo Agüero, which tells the unbelievable true story of the transport of the embalmed body of the country’s beloved First Lady Eva Perón.

Contact: Julia di Deroli, julia.diveroli@haddockfilms.com

contemporary world cinemas

Truman

Cesc Gay

A man from Madrid decides to spend his last days putting his affairs in order in this delicate and intimate drama from Spanish director Cesc Gay.

Contact: Lucia Chavarri, chavarri@bdcine.net

contemporary world cinema

Magallanes

Salvador del Solar

An aged Peruvian taxi driver, formerly an aide to a feared military officer in the bloodiest days of government repression during the Shining Path insurgency, unexpectedly re-encounters a young indigenous woman who was brutally victimized by his superior.

Contact: Felicitas Raffo, felicitas@cepacine.com

contemporary world cinema

Embrace of the Serpent

Ciro Guerra

Tracking two parallel odysseys through the Amazon three decades apart, this visionary adventure epic from Colombian director Ciro Guerra offers a heart-rending depiction of colonialism laying waste to indigenous culture.

Contact: Marcelo Cespedes, distribucion@cineojo.com.ar

contemporary world cinema

Incident Light

Ariel Rotter

In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her husband accepts the courtship of a charming but mysterious older suitor.

Contact: Juan Pablo Miller, jpmiller@tareafina.com

tiff docs

Our Last Tango

German Kral

Documentarian German Kral chronicles the seven-decade career of Argentine tango legends Juan Carlos Copes and Maria Nieves.

Contact: German Kral, germankral@yahoo.com

short cuts

The Magnetic Nature

Mateo Bendesky

Fifty-five-year-old Aldo and his older brother Pablo live together and take part in a religious practice invented by their father, whose congregation meets mainly online. But for Aldo, the allure of the world outside the garden gates is growing much stronger than “philosophical magnetism.” Now, if he could just figure out a way to tell his brother…

Contact: Mateo Bendesky, mateobendesky@gmail.com

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