Seven dogs (Siete perros) is a small story, which narrates a moment in Ernesto’s life. Ernesto is an old man, he lives alone in Córdoba City, in a messy and dirty apartment, he frequently attends his dialysis sessions and has... Read Article
A Swiss banker tries to navigate the unfamiliar and increasingly unsettling world of military-led 1980s Argentina in ‘Azor’, a chilling political thriller in cinemas 29th October.
Director Pedro Speroni spent two years living amongst a group of violent criminals at a Buenos Aires maximum-security prison in order to make his film Rancho. He admitted to being terrified at times – especially when he was... Read Article
So, after twelve days, over 400 films, hundreds of thousands of cinema tickets sold, a whole bunch of awards, and enough free cocktails to fill the Rio de la Plata estuary on which Buenos Aires stands, the city’s... Read Article
My favourite acting performance so far at BAFICI is undoubtedly that of 11-year old Paula Hertzog in Argentinean film Ciencias Naturales, a Córdoba-set tale of a young girl’s search for the biological father she has never met and of whom... Read Article
It’s 4am on the dark, deserted streets of downtown Buenos Aires and I’ve just been turned away from about the tenth door I’ve knocked on. The bag on my back contains laptop, camera, passport, phone, two weeks’ worth... Read Article
On the day that the ex-dictator of Argentina, Jorge Rafael Videla, died in prison at the age of 87, I went to see The Official Story at the University Católica in the Chilean capital, Santiago. The Argentine film... Read Article
The representation of Latin American cinema at the Cannes Film Festival has, since the festival’s inception in 1939, been about as visible as a contact lens in the bath. In spite of the strong cinematic heritage of Brazil... Read Article
The curtain came down on the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) at the weekend, and as ever the long list of winners proved to be an eclectic bunch. The state-run festival, one of Latin America’s... Read Article
Contrary to what the name might lead you to believe, White Elephant is not a film about the Millennium Dome, the new Wembley Stadium or even the Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington. The pale pachyderm referenced in... 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
April is a big month for Latin American film with the staging of the annual Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (or BAFICI for short) from the 10th – 21st. First staged in 1999, the government-run festival... Read Article
