Antonella Costa

Maria (Antonella Costa) is a militant activist in an organization that is fighting the oppressive dictatorship. She teaches reading and writing in the suburbs of Buenos Aires in an area of shantytowns. She lives in a decrepit rooming house with her mother Diane (Dominique Sanda), who rents out some rooms. One of the lodgers, a shy young man named Felix (Carlos Echeverria), is in love with Maria... (All Movie Guide)

After the funeral of his daughter Ema, Frank Osorio travels for the first time to Buenos Aires to tell his granddaughter Alina about her mother's death. But Frank has to big secrets: the first one is about the identity of Alina's father and the second one is related to a crime. (imdb)

Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, they are met with uncommon enthusiasm, the local newspaper wants to sponsor the fight, and an open call is made for a worthy adversary. Orsini knows how to find the right combatant, but fishing in Santa Maria could lead to a bigger catch than he'd hoped for. (Warsaw Film Festival)

Coming of age. In Buenos Aires, Eloy is on the verge of manhood. He studies physics, helps with the family headstone business, and does advertising - handing out flyers while walking on stilts or wearing an empanada costume. When his melancholy father dies, Eloy imagines that his father visits him at night; the explanation is more pedestrian - Eloy has started sleepwalking. Things change abruptly: while sleepwalking, he falls through an open skylight into the bed of Elvira.

The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn't belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives.

Explores the life of a teenager whose parents died a year ago and how he deals with his older brother, his drug addicted best friend and the girl he likes.

Rosa lives in Buenos Aires and she wants to meet Javier, who lives in Milan, because she thinks he's her brother. So she goes to Italy, and she tells Javier that her mother was a political prisoner in Argentina during the 1970s, when thousands of opponents of the nation's military government simply "disappeared." Javier will go to Barcellona to make the DNA test and to reflect about past and present of his family and his motherland.

Marco Berger's impressive second feature makes provocative use of ellipses to explore the ambiguous encounter between a swimming teacher and one of his students, employing chilly, precisely composed images to convey the often ambivalent nature of desire. (berlinale.de)

The perils of Argentinean prostitution are brought to light in this grim cautionary tale. Paula is a young woman in a bind: She can't pay her rent and she's just lost her waitressing job. Desperate, she turns to an old school friend for help and is soon introduced to the exceedingly seedy life of selling her body on the street. (allmovie.com)

Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido. (IMDB).

1) globalization of violence, violence of globalization? 2) serial killers, social killers? 3) a mine in brazil some murders in new york others in miami how are they connected? 4) "who's putting dynamite at the head of the century" asks tom zé -singing- at the end of the film 5) "cobrador - in god we trust" is an invitation to search the answers to these questions. "cobrador - in god we trust" is an attempt to find the answers to these questions.