Cinema of Argentina
REVIEW Ciencias Naturales
My favourite acting performance so far at BAFICI is undoubtedly that of 11-year old Paula Hertzog in Argentinean film Ciencias Naturales, a... Read Article
Sounds and Colours at the Buenos Aires Film Festival – Day One
It’s 4am on the dark, deserted streets of downtown Buenos Aires and I’ve just been turned away from about the... Read Article
The Official Story – The film that lifted the lid on Videla’s Argentina
On the day that the ex-dictator of Argentina, Jorge Rafael Videla, died in prison at the age of 87, I... Read Article
Why is Latin American Cinema so Under-represented at Cannes?
The representation of Latin American cinema at the Cannes Film Festival has, since the festival’s inception in 1939, been about... Read Article
Buenos Aires International Film Festival dishes out the gongs
The curtain came down on the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) at the weekend, and as ever... Read Article
REVIEW White Elephant
Contrary to what the name might lead you to believe, White Elephant is not a film about the Millennium Dome,... Read Article
REVIEW The Man Next Door
Leonardo (Rafael Spregelburd) is a successful interior designer whose obsession for architecture threatens to ruin his perfectly refined existence when... Read Article
BAFICI 2013: Buenos Aires International Film Festival coming up in April
April is a big month for Latin American film with the staging of the annual Buenos Aires International Festival of... Read Article
REVIEW The Mugger
The Mugger (El Asaltante) is a story based on a real event which the director, Pablo Fendrik, read in a... Read Article
REVIEW Medianeras
Medianeras (Sidewalls) by the Argentine Gustavo Taretto, is a comic and rather touching lesson on that deadly proxy for life... Read Article