6 movies from Argentina in Venice

official competition

The Clan

Pablo Trapero

The new film from Argentine auteur Pablo Trapero (Crane World, White Elephant) recounts the astonishing true story of a seemingly normal middle-class family that trafficked in the kidnapping, ransoming and murder of the wealthy.

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55 Pastillas

Sebastián Muro

Fidel asks for a loan and buys ecstasy with his friend Camilo. The dealer details the procedure. They will only sell on Saturday in a nightclub. They pay cash and leave.Uneasy, Fidel invites Sole home. He boasts about the pills and shows her the stash. They each take one, dance, and go into the bedroom.With Fidel naked in the bed, Sole walks out of the bedroom, grabs the bag of pills and hides it in her purse. She returns to the bedroom with a condom. Fidel wakes up next morning, all alone.

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Mate-Me por favor

Anita Rocha da Silveira

Barra da Tijuca, West Side Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A wave of murderers plague the area. What starts off as a morbid curiosity for the local youth slowly begins to spoil away at their lives. Among them is Bia, a fifteen year old girl. After an encounter with death, she will do anything to make sure she's alive. .

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Zonda, Folclore Argentino

Carlos Saura

Once more, by exploring into the profound magic of popular music, Carlos Saura penetrates into Argentina folklore to give us a fascinating tour through the past, present and future of the genre that marked the many times awarded film-maker in his youth. Saura meets some of the best artists and groups in Argentina, as well as the rich repertoire of the genre, which will allow us to sneak a very peculiar view about an art form that is as old as the peoples that originated it, creating a cultural document for days to come, to which Saura adds his magnetisms and scenic originality.

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La memoria del agua

Matias Bize

A moment of inattention is all it took to change the lives of Javier and Amanda forever: lives that are now divided between "before" and "after", between how everything was and should have been. All because of an accident that neither of them could have prevented. It will take a long time to reach closure on the death of their four-year-old son. Amanda can't bear the daily ache of seeing her home - and Javier. Everything reminds her of her child, and so she decides to leave her husband and plunge into her work as an interpreter, while Javier, who continues to work as an architect, can't accept the separation and seems unable to face the loss of his son.

venezia classici

Apenas un delincuente

Hugo Fregonese

A bank employee utilizes a legal loophole to conduct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement following a six-year prison sentence.