This year’s edition of the Argentine Film Festival in London once more brings a great line-up of Argentine cinema, featuring premieres and classics, as well as an appearance from revered director Pablo Trapero, whose films will be one... Read Article
It’s winter, yet the darker nights have made the atmosphere inside the Ritzy cinema café in Brixton, South London all the more warm and fuzzy. Lively chatter, endless flows of tea, cake and wine, tables packed both upstairs... Read Article
From the 26th to the 29th November, the Argentine Film Festival will return to London with a whole host of exciting films screening across the capital. Entering its third year, the Festival will showcase a variety of feature-length... Read Article
My favourite acting performance at this year’s BAFICI (the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) was undoubtedly that of 11-year old Paula Hertzog in Argentinean film Natural Sciences (Original title: Ciencias Naturales), a Córdoba-set tale of a... Read Article
Leonardo (Rafael Spregelburd) is a successful interior designer whose obsession for architecture threatens to ruin his perfectly refined existence when his neighbour, Víctor (Daniel Aráoz), decides to knock himself a new window in a wall overlooking Leonardo’s modernist... Read Article
The Argentine Film Festival returns to London for it’s second year, expanding into three venues and once again offering a wide variety of Argentine cinema and cultural events. The festival will start on Wednesday 17th April with a... Read Article
The 1st ever Argentine Film Festival of London proved such a success last week that three of the films featured at the festival will now get a second screening over Bank Holiday weekend at the Ritzy Picturehouse in... Read Article
Julia Solomonoff‘s latest film is a sweet yet daring look at that awkward no man’s land between the end of childhood and the start of adolescence. The Boyita of the title is a campervan pod which also doubles... Read Article
The Mugger (El Asaltante) is a story based on a real event which the director, Pablo Fendrik, read in a local newspaper. The assailant of the title was never caught, and likewise, in the film, we can only... Read Article
Chinese Take-Away (Un Cuento Chino) claims to be a story based on real events but our credulity is quickly put to the test in an opening scene where a lovely looking engagement is interrupted by a plummeting ruminant.... Read Article
Medianeras (Sidewalls) by the Argentine Gustavo Taretto, is a comic and rather touching lesson on that deadly proxy for life — virtual reality.
“There is sexuality in everything but sometimes, as an adult, we don’t want to see it in children. We hope people have sexuality once they are over 18. This film is about the existence of that desire and... Read Article
