1. Political Bodies (Corpolítica)
At a time when the far right is ascending to power around the world, the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections saw a surprising and unprecedented record of LGBT candidates. This film follows four young queer politicians during their electoral campaigns and reveals their struggle to affirm their rights to exist and be heard.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. Transhood
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they redefine “coming of age.” These kids and their families show us the intimate realities of how gender is re-shaping the family next door in a unique and unprecedented chronicle of growing up transgender in the heartland.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
3. Glimpses of Argentina
This Traveltalk series short visit to Argentina includes a look at its capital Buenos Aires.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
4. Leopoldo Jacinto. Vida de campeón (Leopoldo Jacinto. Vida de campeón)
Documentary about the life story of one of Argentina's sports idols. One of the forty-three soccer players who won a World Cup, a fight. Filmed in Mendoza, Santa Fé, Rosario and Buenos Aires.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
5. The Machine Gun and the Bass (A Metralhadora e o Contrabaixo)
Documentary short film covering two survivors of the argentinian military dictatorship.
6. Argentina Beat (Argentina Beat)
Through the second half of the 1960's the Beat movement and the first National Rock were the flagship of the youth, leaders as never before of a society in transformation. The formation of the first bands, the venues for concerts, the difficulties to sing rock in Spanish and interact with other artists create new ways to communicate previously unavailable. This documentary presents the story of these first pioneers of the Argentinean rock music.
7. Buscando a Reynols (Buscando a Reynols)
Documentary about the enigmatic and experimental music group "Reynols", his lead singer and leader who was down syndrome and the peculiarity of having a discography published in the most dissimilar corners of the planet.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
8. Translatina (Translatina)
The result of three years of production, more than 100 hours of filming, and interviews with people from 15 nationalities, Translatina paints an alarming portrait of the realities faced by</p><p> transgender people in Latin America. Through a series of testimonies from civil society representatives and other stakeholders, this full-length documentary offers a realistic look at the challenges faced by transgender people in accessing education, work, justice, health care, and other services. It also shows how non-governmental organizations in Latin America are starting a dialogue with governments to demand opportunities for inclusion of transgender people, and how such initiatives may result in significant changes to ensure the rights of the population.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
9. Working Dancers
In Buenos Aires a group of acclaimed dancers create the first Contemporary National Company of Dance under their collective leadership. This is the story of four talented dancers, Ernesto, Bettina, Victoria and Pablo, along six years of their journey. We follow their lives, we attend their rehearsals and performances in the emblematic building of the National Library, along with their premiere and backstage in the historical National Theatre of Cervantes. They expose their dreams as dancers, individuals and members of our society, as we observe the fulfilment of their biggest dream: the demand of a National Dance Law. Amazing choreographies, beautiful folklore songs and original Latin-American contemporary music reveal the beauty of dance becoming life.
10. Carmín (Carmín)
A portrayal of the multifaceted artist Sofía Saunier's daily routine as she takes care of her housemate and makes Transur, a film project showing the present reality of Uruguay's trans community.
11. Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark (Piazzolla: los años del tiburón)
A cinematic portrait of the world-wide legendary Argentinian composer who changed tango. For the first time ever, the hidden archives of bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla are opened by his son Daniel.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
12. Our House in Cuba (La guardería)
There was a time in Argentina, not so long ago, when the army wasn't only one, official, but many and made up by civilians. In those times of courageous youths determined to fight to the death for that cause upheld around Peronism as wll as some left-wing postulates, revolutionary Cubas was a beacon of hope in the world scheme -a Montonero nation. "A House in Cuba" seeks to recover the curious adventure of a couple of Montonero parents and their small children, who were lovingly sent into exile in order for their parents to take up arms.
13. Argentina 1978: il Mondiale desaparecido (Argentina 1978: il Mondiale desaparecido)
(Argentina 1978: il Mondiale desaparecido)
14. Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela (Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela)
The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his time; also a filmmaker and screenwriter in Hollywood, architect of a revolutionary theatrical building and scenographer, cartoonist and illustrator. An implausible genius.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. The One Fallen from the Sky (El caído del cielo)
A dead man who felt from the sky is turned into a saint by a village. Turns out this man used to be a victim of the Argentina's Dirty War a few years back. This documentary tracks his real story.
16. The Books and the Night (Los libros y la noche)
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
17. Eugenio's Close Up: Inside the Slums of Buenos Aires
Eugenio's Close Up: Inside the Slums of Buenos Aires</p><p> A professional photographer seeks to infuse his Buenos Aires slum with art, creativity and free expression. As with so many of the marginalised shanty towns of Latin America, there is a wellspring of violence and economic despair. Caught in the ever-shifting instability of Argentina's economy, there is little chance that these slums will be transformed or that their residents will be able to easily escape the country's cyclical poverty. Despite this for Eugenio, a 32-year-old photographer who still calls the slum of Villa 15 his home, there is a persistent richness to the life around him, and hope.
18. Liniers, el trazo simple de las cosas (Liniers, el trazo simple de las cosas)
Winter 2007. Two artists from Argentina receive a grant to develop their work in Montreal . The only catch? They have to share an apartment. In this way filmmaker Franca González and cartoonist Ricardo Siri Liniers come to know each other. From the moment González becomes the roommate of Liniers, a friendship emerges between them and she makes him the proposal of doing a documentary about him. The film starts with an argument to get Liniers permission to chase him with videocameras and ends up becoming one of the most tender portraits ever done of the artist, reflecting the transcendence that ensues from the simple line of his drawings.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
19. Una casa que no tiene techo (Una casa que no tiene techo)
A documentary essay about Argentinian trans activist Maite Amaya.
20. Me llamo Marian (Me llamo Marian)
The struggle of a trans woman to have her identity recognized at her workplace.
