Argentine cinema does not stop battle: there were five premieres

Some say that the trip is more important than the arrival. Others say the medium is the message. And many, that poetry does not need to be explained. It is something that feels, that caresses the soul or slips, or bounces, according to each person or circumstance. The latter is quite proven.

“The message”of IVAN FUNDdoes not explain his message because he has a certain poetic breath, but he implies it. It is a fable with animals and everything that comes with moral, or morals, in charge of each one. The little person who stars this story still lives in childhood, with her innocence and her particular way of understanding adults. And you can talk to animals. Is the latter true? Or do she believe it, a woman who is in charge of “interprets” and a man also in charge takes the juice to the owners of the bugs?

Anyway, those owners are reconforted. And those two people in charge of the girl are their relatives? Somehow they form a family. They walk along the roads offering this special communication with loved ones, and they will see, they will arrive, where the mother of the baby is. Let them want or not, it is growing. There goes the story. IVAN FUND He develops it with the greatest tranquility, slowly, and also with the greatest affection, for the characters, for the illusions, the sweet need to continue believing, and love also for his homeland girl. The film is all filmed in Crespo Campo and surroundings, with people from the place, with his friends, his wife, his daughter, the marriage Subiottowho are also friends. Sweet film, singular, well polished, well acted, with beautiful music and beautiful black and white photograph, made with two pesos together here and there. It seems small, but he won the Special Jury Prize in Berlin, the silver bear. That is, it is not so small.

Also in black and white are the notable works of the photographer Adriana Lestido. Part of his work, his life and thought, can now be seen in a well -relaxed portrait, of soft colors, “I and the one I was”made by his disciple Constance Niscovolos In a house where the light enters everywhere, neighboring the coast and the forest. There we see Lest Alternating with animals, friends and students, and also alternating fleeting and deep talks (some were recorded years before for an oral archive) with the summary of their experiences: their young, happy marriage, the almost immediate tragedy, its beginnings as a graphic reporter, the learning in successive workshops, the rejection of a scholarship because I preferred to continue dedicated to what here was doing at that time ( Scholarships of equal or greater prestige), the growing search for the soul of people and the soul of images, their adventures at the ends of the world tempting the absolute, their records of mothers, from that famous with his daughter in his arms in a manifestation of 1982, his own unpaid wish to be a mother. One of his best known works is the series Dam motherswith photographs taken over three years in the Ezeiza prison.

The premiere of “The days with her”, A documentary of Matías Scarvaci On other prey mothers, filmed in the Los Hornos prison, where the convicted can live with their creatures, but only until they reach four years of age. The film focuses on a woman who was already pregnant when she received a 12 -year sentence. The creature was born in jail, her world is the cell, the gallery, the patiecito with some children’s games, the nursery, also a national act, the arrival of the pastor to baptize her and her mother, and the appearance of Papa Noel with gifts for all the boys of the prison. She is the mother’s biggest treasure, she is always with the mother, until suddenly one day they take her home for family members almost unknown and at the end of that day, without understanding anything, she feels alone. Good monitoring work of Scarvaciwhich also expands his gaze to other women, including a Bolivian who has lived working since he was a child and now he is not used to being without doing anything.

Let’s go back to fictions. Surprisingly, José C. Campusano Leave for a moment his stories of strong types of the conurbano or Patagonian peripheries, and a double challenge is proposed: tell the drama of a lonely painter who feels like the reincarnation of another, and tell it in English. That is “Van Gogh’s eyes”Film variant of a piece of the off-broadway entitled “The last days of Vincent Van Gogh”where a lonely forced to falsify paintings feels that Van Gogh’s same death is to suffer, at the hands of the same fool who reincarnates again. Likewise, the unhappy feels nostalgia for a girl named Sien, as Cianina Hoornik, the little woman who once attracted him to.

There are other keys, the matter is interesting and has its good moments of achieved and tortuous dream climate in the first part and towards the end, in addition to several quite striking side characters (only a polished). And above all he has Donald Mann, author and actor of the aforementioned theater work, who here in addition to the protagonist is co -producer and coguionist of the film. Good actor, with a characterization that properly resembles Kirk Douglas making Van Gogh in “Be of living”also known as “The crazy red hair”.

The premieres list closes with dramatic comedy “Daisy”of Florence Calcagno. She wrote it with her brother Leandro, here protagonist as a young guy confused between two loves, an old legend, fears and indecisions of her age and other annoyers who, taken seriously, could take us to the end of the world (if the rock world does not kill us before). There is freshness, and a disturbing background. Not bad for a prima opera.

*”The message” (Argentina, Spain, Uruguay, 2025); Dir.: Iván Fund; Int.: Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato.

*”I and the one I was” (Argentina, 2025); Dir.: Constanza Niscovolos; documentary.

“The days with her” (Argentina, 2025); Dir.: Matías Scarvaci; documentary.

“Van Gogh’s eyes”/ “Van Gogh ‘Eyes” (Argentina-Eeu, 2025); Dir. José C. Campusano; Int.: Donald Mann, Enrique Abal, Sol Airaldi, Barbara Pombo.

+”Margarita” (Argentina, 2025); Dir.: Florencia Calcagno; Int.: Leandro Calcagno, Agustina Chipolini, Julian Paz Figueiera, Gabriela Ledo.