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Jess is a bohemian youth with secrets to hide from his shrewd parents. James feels trapped living with his irritable mother. After meeting for a sexual encounter, the two young men set off on a spontaneous road trip across rural Argentina to reunite with Jess' estranged brother. On their journey, they confront strange occurrences and engage in a ménage à trois affair that brings them closer. Their newly found affection grows, all while discovering a fresh vision of freedom and happiness. JESS & JAMES is a sexually charged road-trip movie, a love story, and a coming-of-age tale, set against the mythical landscape of the Argentinian Pampas.

Leopoldo is an 11 year old boy who grew up surrounded by artists. During the three months of spring, the boy discovers love in one of his of poetry classmates which she then leaves him with a broken heart.

Shot within the urban and industrial landscapes of Halifax, Canada, Here Kitty Kitty! is an improvised film that showcases the beautiful and bleak life of Lucy, a late 30- something woman whose world is falling apart. A not-so-traditional Christmas movie with an off-beat, surreal and comic edge.

Two twin sisters are making a birthday cake. Like a two headed creature, they appear to be a projection of one another. In the brief afternoon they spend together, they relive past conflicts and some shared fears that come back to haunt them.

How far would you go to make an independent film? When a director, a producer, and an actress unite to realize their dream of making their first feature, there are no limits in what they are willing to do to accomplish that goal. Stolen locations, amateur work teams, the worst filming conditions, anything goes, even mutual betrayal. The outcome will surprise everyone. Third installment of the Upa! series.

A mixture of documentary, diary and personal fiction, Queer Diaries is a sensitive and philosophical journey. For the starting point of an unfinished film, a filmmaker lives, travels and records his memories in the shape of audiovisual poems and short stories. The result is a political manifesto in favor of queerness. What are the models of family and happiness that we follow? What movies shall we make for the new world?

A couple without children, a couple with three children and a gay couple with a son from a previous marriage, four stories intertwine.

How far would you go to make an independent film? When a director, a producer, and an actress unite to realize their dream of making their first feature, there are no limits in what they are willing to do to accomplish that goal. Stolen locations, amateur work teams, the worst filming conditions, anything goes, even mutual betrayal. The outcome will surprise everyone. Third installment of the Upa! series.

Eight years after the first installment, Ailén, Fernando, and Nina, meet again in the BAFICI competition. From that reunion, they decide to resume their unfinished project: Tandil/Tromso. They bring along two new collaborators: Martín and Nancy.

Nina, Ailén and Fernando are an actress, a producer and a director who want to shoot and independent feature film in Argentina.

A young dancer in a pit of despair that leads her towards self-destruction meets a doctor, who is bearing the infamy of a malpractice case. The beginning of a spiral in which fascination and madness squirm in a nightmarish love story, and where sex explores areas of extreme fetishism.

Leonidas, a young Huarpe destined to be the leader of his community, falls in love, going against all the mandates of his people, Lourdes, the daughter of the white landowner of the Town. To separate them, they accuse Leonidas of a crime he did not commit, for which he must serve a sentence. When they leave prison with Lourdes they undertake a bloody revenge against all those who tried to separate them and on the way they will discover that they are united by something more than their immense love.

A junior screenwriter called Juan Garofalo is hired by film director Samuel Goldszer to write his new film: a gangster movie set in Buenos Aires. In each meeting, the filmmakers create a story that takes place in an imaginary Pompeya neighborhood. So the characters are born: Dylan, the brutal hero of the underworld, Timmy, his disturbed, deaf-mute brother, and Lana, the femme fatale who begins the love triangle. But Pompeya hides a secret and is disputed by the Russian and Korean mafia, and Dylan is caught in a sequence of bloody crimes. Dylan fights for survival while Juan, his creator, lives with greed and misery the experience of an imaginary system of evil powers. And when pure fiction and reality are completely corrupted, the unexpected happens.

The making of a video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Korean community in Argentina takes actor Chang Sung Kim back to his native land. But soon the trip becomes an unexpected and transforming reunion with his family and the culture that, 48 years ago, he decided to leave behind.

How far would you go to make an independent film? When a director, a producer, and an actress unite to realize their dream of making their first feature, there are no limits in what they are willing to do to accomplish that goal. Stolen locations, amateur work teams, the worst filming conditions, anything goes, even mutual betrayal. The outcome will surprise everyone. Third installment of the Upa! series.

An argentinian couple in a party at the countryside find that their friends are being killed. However, it's hard to find the killer, because they are completely stoned and don't know what is real or not.

Eight years after the first installment, Ailén, Fernando, and Nina, meet again in the BAFICI competition. From that reunion, they decide to resume their unfinished project: Tandil/Tromso. They bring along two new collaborators: Martín and Nancy.