Daniel Valenzuela

In an inhospitable rural area in North-East Argentina, machismo, destitution and the repression meted out under the military dictatorship sees the birth of the latest daughter born to Antonio, alcoholic woodcutter who anxiously wanted his first son. After the three daughters are farmed out to families in better financial position, he christens the latest one with the name of José, nicknamed Bumbún, and forces her to take on the identity of a boy. Mercedes, hurt by having lost her other daughters, protects the girl and keeps up the lie, constantly threatened by Antonio. Having been forced to act as a boy since childbirth, Bumbún will struggle between whether to accept her fate or to fight to change it.

A remote village 100 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires. Stephen, Matías, Alejo, Damián and Guido were born 13 years ago in this small town. They have always been friends and together they share the monotonous summer afternoons sitting on the stoop of a women's hairdresser. Anxious, restless, impatient for a change, they go through the most confusing period of experiment -- the transition from childhood to adolescence.

Gualtieri is an apathetic ex-cop, fighting himself, almost nothing excites him. That is why he accepts an easy job in the jungle of the triple border. Investigating how and why a person was killed becomes the key to revealing other truths that should be buried under the wet red soil of the place.

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, the two men must flee. It is not long before the police are surrounding the building they are in and they must confront their demons to survive.

A young man is struck and killed in a traffic accident, and the wrong man is accused of the homicide.

Nina is a 16-year-old girl who lives in a rural neighborhood of Oberá (Misiones, Argentina). She works on the farm and in the village to support her family, which prevents her from attending school. One day, she is enticed to travel to the capital by a job offer as a nanny, offering a good salary and the opportunity to study. She shares this dream with Lourdes, her Paraguayan cousin from a marginalized neighborhood in the city of Encarnación, who receives a similar offer.

The film tells two stories apparently very distant are slowly approaching each other. On the one hand is Babarimisa, a young man from Benin who suffers from a relentless disease for which seems to have no remedy. Desperate to save his mother, Morenike, a Yoruba priestess goes to invoke the power of the Orishas gods. Meanwhile in Argentina, Shantas is a young offender living in a marginal area tainted by the practices of Umbanda, a cult derived from African religions. None of us can even imagine the surprises that come in the destination.

In the backroom of a supermarket, Matias spends the night with his new coworkers: Lucas and Raúl, a night guard at the wholesale section. What begins as a casual hangout gradually takes a strange turn due to Raúl’s constant mood swings, making the dynamic increasingly tense and uncomfortable.

In the revolted 70's in Argentina, teenage Graciela is an artist and a poet. She and Julio, a charismatic student leader, are brought together by their ideals for social justice. Her poems reach young musician Flecha, who dreams of singing them for a roaring crowd. As the times grow harder and more dangerous, friends are persecuted, Graciela and Julio protect each other, but the dictatorship kidnaps them. Graciela's mother desperate search for her daughter brings her together with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who's relentless clamor for their missing children is only met with more terror and death from the bloody dictatorship. 35 years later, that mother publishes a book of Graciela's poems, and brings it to Flecha, now an accomplished musician. He turns them into songs that let her words live and fly.

Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Journalism and writing workshop in the hospital. They were both part of the workshop's creation and of a very recognized and conflict magazine which one generated therapeutic, institutional and social effects that proved to be too much for it. The words heard through the phone the day before make them need to find out what happened to Martin and his body. While discussing about this very same subject a word makes them remember about the beginnings of the workshop.

A small village lost in the mountains, paralyzed after the closing of a mine, receives the arrival of an outsider who offers a significant payment in exchange for a very special job: to kill the owner of the mine.

A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.

Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free and once out, he pays his debt to "the tunnel of bones,"sharing their macabre story with a local journalist, and ultimately the world.

Pistolero is a fiction that in a certain way is an essay on violence. The story follows the criminal raid of Isidoro Mendoza and his brother Claudio in the rural Argentina during Ongania’s dictatorship, and how the violence of his criminal deeds begins to leave a mark in them. A teacher from Buenos Aires arrives to Isidoro’s life, and love is the possibility to open himself to a new life, but even as he tries, he can not escape the entropy generated by his own drives and actions.

Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.

The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

Los Últimos is the remake of the frustrated Pozo de Zorro, by Miguel Mirra himself. A group of soldiers is isolated after a bloody battle, but they refuse to surrender. The Malvinas war is approached by Miguel Mirra from a different perspective than that known until now. The Last Ones is a war drama where there is no room for guilt and commiseration.

Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Argentina 2018. After her mother’s death, Naty (a middle-aged transvestite) start taking control of every inch of the house, accompanied by her loyal friend Sixty. Her luck seems to have changed, until one day a secret from the past is revealed. A thriller in the suburbs, filled with the political insubordination and the dark comedy that is so characteristic of Naty Menstrual.

An architect trails a man who was hiding under his girlfriend's bed.

Carmen fails to adapt to the world and society in which she lives. She worries about not having a partner. In a raffle he wins as a prize a week with all payment for two in Mar del Plata. She is willing not to go alone.

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

Documentary that follows a group of filmmakers who investigate the existence of a Peronist superhero that Perón allegedly proposed to publish. They interview historians, graphic artists, and sociologists to reconstruct this figure, whose evidence was destroyed after the 1955 coup d'état and the persecution of Peronism.

A separated yet self-sufficient craftswoman puts up a friend who is also separating. The hostess has three teenage children, and the arrival of her guest will interfere with their domestic harmony, apart from slowly but surely causing a hormonal surge in one of the boys.

A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.

Mariana doesn’t like her name and starts calling herself Gloria. Her parents split up before she was one year old and today, like many separated couples, they are brought back together under the same roof only because they don’t have a decent job. Cristina, her mother, rents a part of the house to her ex-husband for a bit of extra money. “Francia” talks about those people who will never travel far from their home, where they take refuge, for good or bad, from all disgusting things in the outside world. Meanwhile, Mariana puts on her headphones when she hears her parents fighting. Those fights which now serve as a relief to the helpless.

Only a miracle can save the club San Telmo descending category. Everyone is waiting for the arrival of a Brazilian soccer player, a messiah of soccer that will guide them towards salvation in the match of the outcome. But when stepping on Buenos Aires, Santo will find a city full of dangers and must live an odyssey to get to the field, where he will face his fate.

Juan is a 35 year old man whose hobby is bodybuilding. He works in a factory, where despite its huge and muscled physique, is mistreated by his bosses and colleagues. His biggest dream is to leave that life gray and a better life, especially owning your own gym, but has yet to collect some money. And that is, when, in the evening of another of his routine days, attends a terrible episode before which makes a decision that suddenly puts a moral crossroads.

1977, Argentina. Gina (37) is obsessively trying to conceive a child with her husband Carlos (58), with whom she previously lost a baby before birth. Carlos is a powerful businessman involved in shady deals with the military during the dictatorship. A former equestrian champion, Gina finds solace in horseback riding to escape the anguish of not becoming a mother. One afternoon, she gives in to the attraction she feels for the stable boy at her riding club. They become lovers, but she soon realizes that love alone cannot heal her wounds. Later, she finds out the army has kidnapped her best friend. In search of help, she turns to a captain from her husband's inner circle – unaware that she's walking into a trap.

An actor's journey playing an assassin on the set of a film that takes place in a Buenos Aires' butcher shop. Short novella from the anthology "Historias breves 7". The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Competition and Filmmakers Support Program. This novella was shown as part of an almanac and had separate festival distribution and screenings.

In the middle of the Andes Mountains lies a big dump. Hundreds of homeless people are living from the garbage. An inexperienced social worker is sent by the local government to evacuate these areas and the conflict erupts.

Dina has not seen her three children for many years. They escaped their excessive control and live abroad. She can't get over her aerophobia to go visit them. She can't take it anymore without seeing them, and with his friends she sets up a mock of his funeral to force them to come and see her, but her plan will unleash madness. Who would think that this plan will work?

Unable to land a job as an airline pilot, Leonardo takes a job as a fumigator pilot at a farm in the countryside. On his very first night, he discovers the town harbors a deadly secret that will put everyone in danger.

Daniel, Juan Palomino is a security guard, he was once a policeman, and he would have liked to be a vigilante hero. But, far from it, his job is to take care of the buildings of others. The city will cross with Analía (Emilia Attias), a distant woman, obsessive and beautiful in a mysterious way. She avoids contact with men because she has been the victim of rape. That terrible past comes back when Julio, Esteban Meloni, a violent and obsessed man, gets out of jail. Between the three are weaving on the streets of the city a plot of passion and crime.

Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damage done.

Deep in the lush river jungles of Argentina, Alvaro lives a solitary existence fishing and harvesting reeds. What sets him apart from the rest of his village is that he is gay. There are no other gay men in his world, his only means of expression is with the occasional outsider who passes through. Most of these men come via the river taxi El León, whose captain El Turu is a mean man with a homophobic streak and a secret. When illegal loggers appear in the jungle El Turu accuses Alvaro of aiding them, a dispute which leads both men towards confrontation.

Movie adaptation of Leonardo Oyola's novel, which tells the story of the legendary DC comics superhero, Superman, if he, instead of falling in Smallville from Krypton, would have landed in the heart of Isidro Casanova, in La Matanza, deep in the west side of Buenos Aires.

Bruno has a teenage son, Damián. In front of his house there is an abandoned factory where Cartucho, a squatter, lives. Bruno buys a used car and parks it on the factory lot and is forced to tip Cartucho to take care of it.

The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.

Facing an imminent attack from Mars, planet Earth sends Dibu to Mars as a peace ambassador -- the only hope for averting the attack. Amazingly, he finds a friendly population, whose only issue is that they are fed up of their planet being used as a nuclear dump site. Besides averting the Martian attack, Dibu also inadvertently manages the save hit planet from the diabolical designs of an ambitious general

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

Carlos is a friendly lineman who lives in the heart of a square in the big city, under a roundabout that the neighborhood gave up over time. He appeared there after having tragically lost his family in an enigmatic accident that no one knows anything about... Today, while he tirelessly seeks to reunite with his son Álvaro, he sweeps sidewalks in exchange for tips or something that helps him get through the nights of this winter that is being very cruel to your health.

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who will do the impossible to honor him in that short stay. At that time, dramatic turns and touches of humor will occur to deep solemnities, within the traditional and beloved domestic bosom.

Four independent short stories but they have in common that they happen in Buenos Aires during legislative elections. A candidate for deputy, Carlos Celestini floods the city with his image and can be seen in each of the stories.

A story about metaphor, exploring metaphor rather than a naturalistic or contemporary narrative, avoiding the discursive. It's not difficult to find the parallel between what happens and what actually happened: a family (us as a society) protected by a violent drunk (the government at the time), his wife and son, naked victims of their father's violence and impotence. The well-meaning bourgeois family (the cultural empire of good manners) seems to be restoring order when, in the face of such a situation, what they're actually doing is appropriating what they need under the guise of imperialist civilization. Reading it merely as a vampire story reaffirms this metaphor: out of our ignorance, we despise what conquers us, only for it to conquer us again without hesitation, with morality and good manners on its side.

It is the story of Ernesto Ramponi, a man who lost his penis and tries to get it back.

A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.

Ramón Antúnez, a sawmill laborer from the province of Misiones, is fired from his job. Overwhelmed by economic problems, he is seduced by his compadre Antonio, an experienced fisherman, to participate in a transfer of marijuana from Paraguay, across the river, to Leiva, a renowned drug trafficker in the area.

Argentine dictatorship, 1978. About to have a child, Ernesto moves in with his girlfriend Paloma. What he doesn't know is that the military is looking for them. When they are arrested, they are taken to a clandestine prison. Once there, Paloma dies in childbirth, and Ernesto is tortured to death. In 2010, Alejandro, Ernesto's priest brother, thinks he recognizes the couple's daughter, Natalia. After contacting his niece, she must decide whether to accept his true identity or the one imposed on her for 30 years.

Rosario is a paid assassin who kills men who mistreat or abuse women. When the police capture her, it's the end of the myth. But Maria, a hysteric invalid, saves Rosario in exchange for a different job.

A serial killer with a taste for the theatrical is killing powerful judges and leaving their bodies surrounded with dead pigeons. Félix, a detective haunted by his past, is the only one who is able to solve this enigmatic case.

Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to go and look for him and on his motorcycle starts a long way south through Patagonia.

An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.

After their humble dwelling is destroyed by a fire, a marginalized family occupies an abandoned house. From there, they dig a hole to the vault of a neighboring bank.

On March 24, 2004, Patricia, a teacher from Monte Grande, saw on television President Néstor Kirchner take down the portrait of Videla and other de facto presidents of the military dictatorship from the Military College. This image repeated itself in her mind, leading her to retrieve from her box of memories the letters addressed to the soldiers of the Malvinas War, which she had saved from destruction when she worked as an administrator at the Municipality of Monte Grande. She then decided to give meaning to that event by starting to deliver the letters that had never arrived.