Delfina is a beautiful woman of 45 years who enjoys a good economic spend and shares her life with her faithful husband and her teenage daughter. Through an intimate friend, Delfina meets Kamil, a supposed high-ranking businessman.
José Celestino Campusano continues his task of exploring territories that haven’t yet been covered much by Argentine cinema, but with which, film after film, he managed to configure his own universe. This time, the prolific filmmaker traveled to the locality of Gálvez, in the province of Santa Fe, in order to collect town life experiences and, with them, shape his new feature. The Naked Queen is the result of this journey.
A tale based on the criminal path of a fearsome nomad family. Inspired by true events, it depicts the vulnerability of people before the ineffectiveness of the State's institutions.
Roberto is a bored young man living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires who begins a relationship with an older man named Raúl. Their romance takes a disturbing turn after Raúl catches Roberto with another man and turns increasingly abusive.
The determination and dedication of a former musician who is now a social assistant in Bariloche – one of the best-known tourist resorts in Patagonia – is not enough to avoid the misfortunes experienced by local youths. This film reveals, without concessions, the picture never presented in the postcards of this town.
Cícero is a serial rapist who drugs and abuses women who go to him seeking spiritual healing. His ties to local police and politicians intimidate his victims and their partners... but not all of them.
Simón is the owner of a hardware store in the greater Buenos Aires area with four employees. Constantly mistreating them, he never gives them a break, creating a high level of unease in the everyday work routine. Absolutely submerged into the world of labor, The Spider's Lullaby weaves its story with each tension that shape management authoritarianism but also solidarity, resistance, and vile deeds among colleagues.
The story of "Vikingo", a rude motorcyclist whose rigid principles are honor and respect.
Román, who is dedicated to the protection of political leaders and tries to develop himself as a trainer and manager of boxers, is harassed by a duo of abusive representatives who in turn have been hired as a shock force by an opposing political party.
Antonio Molina is a criminal in decline that tries to regain the respect for friendship and commitment, at any cost.
Morena is a trans woman who lives together with her elderly mother, keeping a harmonious relationship. Morena has been working in a textile factory for several years. She has two transvestite friends, one of them is Claudia, who is a teacher and has just accessed to her first employment as substitute; another is the very young and beautiful Myriam, immersed in a maelstrom of excesses linked to prostitution with police protection. Morena discovers that Ricardo, her current partner, has lied to her from the first moment, that he is married and is the father of two children, so she decides to end the relationship.
Two friends decide to form a 'tango-trash' band. The woman of one of these friends is kidnapped by the leader of a female gang, bringing consequences in its aftermath. This all happens in the precarious urban regions surrounding the European-like city of Buenos Aires; in these areas everything resembles the universe of Western films.
Vero lives with her older brother Abel, and they both work together at a construction site. There she has to put up with the advances of some of the workers, which is something she’s used to doing because she’s had this job since she was a lot younger. In the Border follows this character on her path to becoming a better person, which is represented in her way of helping a cousin with an abusive husband and in the NGO she signs up for to give food to the homeless who live on Paseo Colón Avenue. But there’s another parallel film here, and it’s the one in which Campusano’s eye captures the City of Buenos Aires in his own unique way. One of those great moments takes place as soon as the film begins, when Campusano stops to film some street musicians while they rap on a subway platform.
