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Convicts, scammed people, addicts, musicians in trouble—all of them look for Joe Stefanolo, the criminal lawyer who’s been fighting for more than four decades to bring the spirit and ideals of rock to justice.

Navigating the triple border that separates fiction, documentary and essay, in Dueto, writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky and actor Rafael Ferro expose, in a confessional manner, the bond they have shared for many years, not only recalling but also retelling a handful of common stories. Some of them have to do with the origin of their relationship, others with its extremes, from the most tense to the most playful. However, all of them converge in a common denominator that keeps them together despite everything. Dueto is the story of two men who, without any shame, allow their friendship to affirm, with conviction, its real name—love. One that is sometimes tender and light, other times possessive and rough, but always ready for a generous indulgence that doesn’t need that of the flesh. The two of them turn Dueto into an oath made of film, in order to honor the pact of that powerful shared feeling.

The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.

This is the story of a successful family of artists and an unlikely blended family, told through what for some is the worst Argentine film in history and for others, an object of devotion.

A young artist must move with his mother to an island, where there are only one hundred inhabitants. Your imagination, harmony with nature and love will be the keys to finding your identity on this path to adulthood that you have to go through.

Influenced by the sound of the city, different artists improvise ephemeral pieces that dance between music and what is typically considered to be “noise.” Different sonorous and visual textures converge in this documentary about the creation of experimental music in Buenos Aires.

After the disappearance of a student, their classmates mobilize for the case to be solved. A disturbing record about how physical absence causes a disaster in which astonishment seems to have the last word.

Lola, a young playwright and drama director, goes into a crisis before her new play is released. Her leading actress raises time and again that she has problems with the text. A friend of her, a visual artist, moves to her home after discovering an affair and her ex-boyfriend claims copyright. Lola doubts about her own play and struggles between moving forward in the chaos or give it up. She needs to find the true meaning of what she is doing to justify herself.

Cross Dreamers is the life story of 4 men who practice cross-dressing in Argentina. From an early age they had the need to transit the feminine. With the clothes, the makeup, the heels and the construction of a feminine identity, "Cross" seek to feel like women for a short time of their lives. However these 50 to 60 year old men had to repress this desire throughout their lives because they felt like monsters and hid it from their wives and children.

A film portrait of Argentinian pianist Margarita Fernández. Medium makes her visible as a mediator, building bridges between past and present, different generations, scores and music, sounds and images, her own art and that of cinema.

Fedra Abrahan is 40 years old and has been traveling to Peru for seven years to connect and learn about the ancestral wisdom of the healers of the peoples of the region. This trip is different, his father has just passed away and he decides to go through the mourning in the Amazon jungle and in the Peruvian mountains, performing various rituals of healing, cleansing and purification with master plant ceremonies, fasts and vision seeking. The process is tough, but she is willing to become a Medicine Woman.

Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos was an artist responsible for the creation of a work that it was as ephemeral as it is eternal. He was born in a traditional family, but some years later the curiosity for the art scene, night life and avant-garde development pushed him to live within the iconoclastic and unbiased young 60's crowd.