Films from Argentina in Cannes

Un certain regard

LA CORDILLERA [The Summit]

Santiago Mitre

At a summit for Latin American presidentes in Chile, where the region´s geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures a political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons. He will have to come to two decisions that could change the course of his public and private life forever: one regarding a complicated emotional situation with his daughter, and the other, the most important political decision of his career.

Un certain regard

La novia del desierto [The Desert Bride]

Cecilia Atán & Valeria Pivato

Axel is a ten year-old who lives with his mother, Margarita, and his three twenty-something sisters in a flat in Montserrat, a once aristocratic Buenos Aires neighborhood, now in decadence.

Margarita requests to be locked up in her bedroom as part of a homemade treatment by which she hands her daughters the control over the keys in order to preserve herself from her lack of willpower.

Axel and his sisters will play the part of jailers of their own mother in this odd self-preservation agreement. This will be the arrangement between them until Margarita attempts to break it.

Axel will then have to decide which of the contradictory orders his mother gives he should follow.

Semaine de la critique

Selva

Sofía Quirós

The land pushes us away and the sea drowns, every generation repeats the same departure.

Selva dances between voices and memories, as she prepares for an inevitable farewell.

Cinéfondation

Pequeño manifiesto en contra del cine solemne

[Little manifesto against solemn cinema]

Roberto Porta

A trivial story about two people that meet at a party and spend the night together, told in the most prententious, most poetic, but above all, most solemn possible ways.

Cannes Classic

NATIVE SON

Pierre Chenal

Mary, a young white woman who lives in Chicago, has a serious drinking problem. It is her chauffeur, Bigger, who usually carries her to her room. One day he accidentally suffocates her. Then he hides the body and runs away. After another murder, he gets caught and is sentenced to death.

Semaine de la critique

Los Perros [The dogs]

Marcela Said

Mariana (42 years) belongs to the Chilean bourgeoisie complice of the dictatorship. Scorned by her father, neglected by a husband who works too much, Mariana feels a strange attraction to Juan (62) his riding teacher, former army colonel with a dark past.