The Towrope

The Towrope 2012

5.40

In this poetic, richly allegorical debut by Colombian director William Vega, a teenage girl flees to a rundown inn after being driven from her home in the Andean highlands by civil war, as the violence engulfing the country creeps ever closer to her remote refuge. (TIFF)

2012

Shadow of Death

Shadow of Death 1969

4.70

The film begins when a stranger arrives in town. He takes quickly to his former mistress, Denise, who is happily married to John, and has an affair with his identiske twin brother Peter. They plan together to drive John crazy. After unsuccessful attempts to blackmail the couple receive the stranger, Gert, to help them with their evil plan.

1969

Dark Suns

Dark Suns 2019

6.60

An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds methodically through unsettling testimonials, sketching a portrait of an entire country transformed into a gigantic mass grave thanks to a climate of impunity established by both criminal gangs and state authorities.

2019

El refugio del mal

El refugio del mal 2002

3.20

Following the rules of a strange game, Martin, a young handsome man in his 20s, arrives to a mysterious hotel lost in a deep forest. There he awaits to find his brother, in their weird cat-and-mouse game all over the country.

2002

Cautivo del mas allá

Cautivo del mas allá 1968

3.50

Vicky loves Ricardo but Ricardo loves Barbara. So, Vicky goes to a gypsy witch who convinces her she must make a pact with Satan in order to cast an effective love spell on Ricardo. After Vicky gives her body and soul to the Dark One, she engages with Ricardo in a passionate night of lovemaking that is cut short by Satan, who, sensing that Ricardo has not completely fallen under the spell, orders Vicky to kill him. Following Ricardo's death, his brother Carlos is haunted by nightmares of the dead sibling, who appears and takes possession of Carlos in order to get his revenge on Vicky.

1968

Pasiones tormentosas

Pasiones tormentosas 1946

5.30

In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft.

1946

The Hands

The Hands 2006

6.00

The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.

2006

Toys

Toys 1978

8.00

This short film, filmed at the Rural Exhibition, is a testimony that, based on 70 interviews with girls and boys of 9 and 10 years old, investigates the behavior guidelines imposed by conventional education and the results obtained. Boys are educated in a specific way, with very different life goals, and toys reflect this discrimination: kitchens, dolls, hairdryers, cosmetic equipment, the whole domestic world for girls. Creative games, those that awaken the imagination (trains, cars, building games, men in space), are intended for boys.

1978

La ley del embudo

La ley del embudo 2022

1.50

The romantic adventure brings Martín closer to those he always thought were idiots. There, he understands how wrong he was; they are no less capable than anyone else. He just hopes that the law of the funnel will prevail between Elena, the prettiest, and him, the biggest fool.

2022

Wanderer. The Conquest of Home

Wanderer. The Conquest of Home 2022

4.00

Between January 2019 and May 2020, Adriana Lestido undertook a journey, without company or assistance, through the Arctic Circle and the Svalbard Islands, a frigid and inhospitable region shared by Norway and Iceland. During those months, Argentine photography recorded, in all its splendor, a still unknown ecosystem.

2022

The Pleasure is Mine

The Pleasure is Mine 2015

6.13

Passionately in love and eager to live together as a couple, Rita and Mateo move out of the city and take refuge in the apparent tranquility of Mateo’s deceased father’s country house. Like every new relationship, it is all sex and fun in the beginning until Rita’s desire to become a mother, Mateo’s fear of commitment.

2015

Zindy, the Swamp Boy

Zindy, the Swamp Boy 1973

4.80

The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson

1973

Estoy en crisis

Estoy en crisis 1982

5.30

Bernabe (José Sacristán) works as an artistic director for a publicity firm but his avocation is fawning after his bosses, sleeping with whomever might advance his career, and ignoring his wife. Life continues on in this vein until he meets a young model whom he invites up to his boss's temporarily vacant country house, pretending the house belongs to him. Not very far away, bulldozers and other machinery are clearing the beautifully wooded area so construction can start on an amusement park. Little does Bernabe realize that his potential new conquest is a seriously fanatical environmental advocate, and she arrives at the house with friends, gets Bernabe high and "out of it," and then she and her friends proceed to trash the construction machinery. Once Bernabe comes around again, he finds out what has happened, loses heart for his planned sexual escapade, and begins to appreciate his wife for the first time.

1982

Merlín

Merlín 1991

5.80

Merlin, shot on 35mm, is an adaptation of Cocteau's play "Knights of the Round Table."

1991

At Dawn, the Devil

At Dawn, the Devil 2024

1

A grieving woman sleeps. Between her agitated breathing, the footsteps of a strange man creep in. At dawn, he accompanies her for a last walk in the forest. The protagonist, a woman without a name, will say goodbye to life in a quiet walk close to nature.

2024

Familiarities

Familiarities 1969

6.20

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

1969

Jueves de Marzo

Jueves de Marzo 2024

1

María turns 19 and says goodbye to her mother to take the train. It is a Thursday in March 2004.

2024

La noche submarina

La noche submarina 2020

7.00

In 2000 Alejo Moguillansky, Diego H. Flores and Fermín Villanueva filmed for three days aboard the ARA San Juan submarine. Twenty years later, Alejo Moguillansky edited that old material in this travel chronicle called The Submarine Night, narrated by Luciana Acuña and himself, written together with Mariano Llinás.

2020