The Mar del Plata International Film Festival presents together with Cine.Ar PLAY a selection of Argentine films that were part of its previous editions.

In this way, all eyes will be present in a diverse and federal sample, that is renewed every second Wednesday of each month, to enjoy the best of national production.

This action is part of the activities that the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and Cine.Ar will carry out throughout the year, walking the road to its 36th edition.

Then, The sidewalk shows you the selection that can be enjoyed from this Wednesday 12 of May:

Tara's footprint, by Georgina Barreiro (2018)

Argentine competition at the 33rd edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

The film explores the unique atmosphere of Khechuperi, a community located on the shores of a sacred lake, immersed in the fascinating Himalayas west of Sikkim, India. He immerses himself in the lives of four brothers, portraying the ancestral tradition of the Bhutia people, influenced by the transformations of globalization through the gaze of young generations.

Cortázar & Antín: Illuminated letters, by Cinthia Rajschmir (2018)

Trajectories – Official Selection Out of Competition at the 35th edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

In the intense years 60, the young filmmaker Manuel Antín meets Julio Cortázar. His letters cross the Atlantic and Manuel films three films based on stories by Julio, generating a cinema of ideas that breaks the mold of its time. An ocean away, they write Circe's script together. Cortázar's letters reveal a tension between the writer who advances on the director's space and the director who tries to avoid the sinuous link between literature and cinema, while forces hidden in the stories embodied in characters that passed to the screen, gravitate dangerously and mysteriously.

Neruda, by Pablo Larraín (2016)

Opening film of the 31st edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

It narrates the hunt that Inspector Peluchonneau undertakes to imprison the poet Pablo Neruda after the communist party was declared illegal. Neruda and his wife Delia del Carril go underground and undertake a journey of no return in which the legend of the poet is forged.

Pinamar, by Federico Godfrid (2016)

Argentine Feature Film Competition at the 31st edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

Pablo and Miguel, two brothers, they travel to Pinamar to dump their mother's ashes and sell the family apartment. There, they start dating an attractive young woman named Laura. Between tensions, duels, loyalties and understandings, they must do the duel.

The perfect square, by Pablo Bagedelli (2018)

Panorama de Cine Argentino at the 33rd edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

Documentary that reveals the universe of people who train dogs to maintain a specific pose. Strict rules and people willing to enforce them.

Lost time, by Francisco Novick and Natalio Pagés (2019)

Panorama de Cine Argentino at the 34th edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

An Argentine academic living abroad returns home to meet an old high school teacher, your role model in life. But nevertheless, the meeting will take an unexpected course.

Pinball, by Nicanor Loreti (2019)

Argentine Short Film Competition at the 34th edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

Two criminal fools. A kidnapping. All hell breaks loose.

While the waves, by Delfina Gavaldá and Carmen Rivoira (2018)

Argentine Short Film Competition at the 33rd edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

Julia dissociates from her surroundings after a silent identity crisis, and set out on a journey hoping to find something to determine her.

Incident light, by Ariel Rotter (2015)

International Competition of the 30th edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and winner of the silver ASTOR Award for best actress for Érica Rivas.

Since the accident, Luisa has not been able to put her life back together. But when a mysterious and seductive stranger enters her life and vehemently proposes to start over., Luisa faces the duel she had been trying to avoid.

Soft rains will come, by Iván Fund (2018)

International Competition of the 33rd edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and winner of the Special Jury Prize in its section.

In a small provincial town, a strange phenomenon plunged all adults into uninterrupted lethargy. Children, between games and waiting, discover the vicissitudes of a new time.

How almost everything works, by Fernando Salem (2015)

Argentine Feature Film Competition of the 30th edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and winner of the Best Director Award.

With the desire to find his mother, a worker at a toll booth transforms into a peddler of an encyclopedia that answers the mysteries of life.

The jail at the end of the world, by Lucía Vassallo (2013)

Argentine Panorama of the 28th edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

The Ushuaia jail worked until 1947, and gave rise to the current naval base. Both institutions are the origin of the southernmost city in the world.

For the collective imagination, it was always synonymous with a journey of no return.