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Malvinas, history of betrayals is an Argentine-Mexican co-production documentary film directed by Jorge Denti from a script by Irene Selzer and Alberto Adellach.

During an assignment for the newscast show Telenoche, Raymundo Gleyzer became the first Argentinean to film a documentary of the everyday life in the Falkland islands (Islas Malvinas). This black & white documentary was originally aired in 1966.

Geoffrey Cardozo (English) and Julio Aro (Argentinian) are Nobel Peace Prize nominees for their joint work in a historic humanitarian cause—the restitution of the identities of Argentine casualties during the Malvinas War. Elma Pelozo is 80 years old and the mother of Gabino Ruiz Díaz, a young man who died during the war, and who remained buried in the Darwin cemetery for three decades as a “soldier only known by God.” Gabino is one of the Argentinian heroes who gained back their identity thanks to the work done by Geoffrey Cardozo and Julio Aro. Elma has two dreams—meeting Geoffrey Cardozo, the person who buried his son with honors, and traveling to Malvinas to visit his grave.

In 1982, the British Armed Forces sent Captain Geoffrey Cardozo to the islands, who dedicated himself to burying Argentine soldiers with the same honors as the English. Thus was born, in February 1983, the Darwin Cemetery.

A fictional story of the Malvinas Islands, told through images and voiceover.

Between December 2021 and April 2022, eight Malvinas Veterans worked on a theatrical project based on Sophocles' Greek tragedy "Philoctetes." None of them had ever acted before. The film explores their own stories on the islands, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.

In the midst of a profound economic, political, and social crisis, in April 1982, the armed forces led by the then de facto president, the alcoholic General Leopoldo Galtieri, launched the reconquest of the Falkland Islands. This marked the beginning of a military adventure in the South Atlantic against a world power that laid bare the errors and horrors of the Argentine military regime. This documentary depicts the final act of a bloody dictatorship.

Talented in childhood and completely lost in her thirties, Vasya suddenly realizes that she is sinking to the very bottom, but there is no strength to get out. Malvina comes to the rescue - an imaginary friend from childhood, a freak woman with purple hair and a peculiar sense of humor. Malvina pushes Vasya in search of her childhood love - Stasik. Finding him is not a difficult task, but you have to try very hard to attract attention and win the heart of Stas. Indeed, unlike Vasya, he achieved in life everything that he dreamed of. Vasya will go a long way and understand what went wrong in her life and, most importantly, find out why Malvina appeared.

Documentary feature film about the merchant ship "Río Carcarañá", belonging to Empresa Lineas Marítimas Argentinas (ELMA) built in 1962 in the city of Rijeka, Yugoslavia, currently Croatia, and which in 1982 participated in the Malvinas War.

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A group of soldiers from the 62nd and 63rd classes of the Chubut province, Patagonia, Argentina, decided to break the silence. It wasn't easy for them to put words to their pain and share their truth about the war.

In April 1982 Dalmiro Bustos and Elena Noseda faced one of the most difficult moments of their lives, when their eldest son, Fabián, was sent to fight in the Islands, along with hundreds of conscript soldiers. Almost forty years after the events, Dalmiro, Elena and their two youngest children, Javier and María Elena, tell what they could not say at the time, in an attempt to follow Fabián's footsteps and put into words the anguish and pain that still remain.

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A retired postman recalls episodes of the Malvinas war; in one of them, a patrol of soldiers must deliver two sacks to the battle front.

The story of a reporter's passion for his craft. Forty years after covering the Falklands War and very ill, he returns in search of the owner of a diary found in the trenches.

"Malvinas: The Story That Could Have Been" is an original Discovery Channel production documentary in co-production with Cuatro Cabezas, from Argentina, and Wilton Films, from England. This documentary raises a new question: Could Argentina have won the Falklands War?

“Malvinas…” is an 83-minute documentary film that narrates the post-war experience of the Malvinas but from a new – and forgotten – approach: from and reaching the meanings of the war and the post-war but only from the humanity of its protagonists. .

It tells the story of three Malvinians who for various reasons were forced to leave the islands and move to mainland Argentina.

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Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict.

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Edgardo faces everyday life. His children, his wife, his entire family seem strange and distant. His thoughts are subjugated by images of the Falklands: the combat, the fear, the death. Traumatic memories that absorb his attention until he becomes a stranger to his loved ones. One day like any other, while walking the children to school, he must finally face his inner ghosts.

The time is the summer of 1982, and the Falklands war is at hand when the young "Argie" follows a British woman home and is stopped from raping her only because she starts to speak to him in Spanish, soon they enter into an ambivalent relationship, undecided as to whether they love or hate each other, or both. They end up on the streets when she is evicted and life becomes even less stable.

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

A story that explores the role of women in the Malvinas War. The protagonist, leader of a group of veteran nurses, commits suicide while this documentary is being filmed. Her companions took on her legacy and continue the fight for recognition in the face of the silence of history and the Argentine Navy.

Victor, a retired Argentine lieutenant from the Falklands War, is hospitalized as a result of catatonia. Through a dreamlike and dark journey, he goes into the darkness of his mind, where different ghosts from his past won't leave until they are satisfied.

An ex-combatant is admitted to a psychiatric facility due to what happened in the Falklands War. During his stay in that institution, he will find a purpose to fight against the treatments that tend to harm him.

During the Malvinas war, more than a thousand Argentine soldiers were wounded. Many were cared for by 14 nurses in a mobile hospital located in Comodoro Rivadavia. After 37 years of silence, three of them return to the place to tell their stories.

It is a fictionalized documentary, filmed in different locations (San Julián; Estancia La Colmena; Morón, Province of Buenos Aires; Capital Federal and Islas Malvinas). The original idea of the project is to reflect the historical and paradoxical connection that unites continental Patagonia with the Islas Malvinas. It is a story that recreates several moments, both the arrival of Islas Malvinas settlers and the departure of Argentine pilots on combat missions during the 1982 war. The documentary is filmed in a cinematic style, but also incorporates the most rigorous documentary logic: interviews, narration, and careful historical research into the events.

The documentary tells the first-person story of what seven veterans experienced during the Malvinas War through their childhood and adolescence, sharing life in a town in the interior of Córdoba. The military service, the landing, the waiting, the cold, the hunger, the fear, the battles, and the return to their village. "I want them to know about my war," says Jorge, taking off his beret as a sign of respect for those who lost their lives in the Malvinas. Today, more than 40 years after the war, they recount what those 74 days were like that marked their lives forever.

A cafe waitress with dreams of stardom becomes an unexpected vigilante, fighting to save Batavia City from rampant crime.

A married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.

As a group of cellmates continues to protect the daughter of their peer, they tackle a new challenge when authorities thwart her adoption by caretakers.

Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

A methodical police inspector becomes entangled in a web of deceit after a murder investigation reveals disturbing connections to his own department. As suspicion tightens around him, he must outwit both the killer and the system to survive.

Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War.

Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.

A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.

Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity.

Alexandru Lapusneanu is one of important Moldavian rulers. A Macbeth figure, who obtains his throne in fight, who reeves any possible danger out of his way, a good "hospodar", husband and father. His reign is result of relation with the Great Powers of the XVIth century. The strain relation with the boyars (noblemen), the economic and spiritual contribution in the country's development, tensions of his own family, the loss of reign and the revenge, the second reign are elements for define the man and the prince like touching character

At a party with diverse guests are dealing with the events os August 23rd, 1944. Guests are serving as metaphors for different parts of society.

Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.

The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.

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It's been 548 days that A hasn't felt anything, that she's been absent from her life. One night, J appears and takes her with her, trying by all means to revive her heart. Stranger is a musical fable, the story of a return to life.

When a beloved Summer Camp director dies, the popular boys' haven will be closed by the heartless Attorney who inherits it unless a dedicated young Camp Counselor can change his mind over one last summer, with the comic help of his oddball campers in a tale of the loyal camaraderie, life-defining choices, camp hi-jinks and summer magic that can make campfire memories last a lifetime.

Construction worker Donald is having a hard time getting anything good to eat since his wife has decided to only cook gourmet foods. That and her constant harping causes him to snap, so he whacks her. Somewhere in the confusion he comes up with a new use for the microwave oven, and begins to eat much better. Soon he's experimenting with different recipes. And different meats.

When the full-scale invasion begins, Kira can't get away from her internal fever - she has to go to the frontline. She is 28 and she is a veterinarian, so it is just natural for her to become a paramedic. But there is one "but" - her twelve-year-old son, Vitia, whom Kira is raising alone. So the first question is: with whom to leave the child? The second question is whether Kira can really leave her son? She has been a mother most of her life. She has always protected her son herself, always been there for him. Maybe it's time to protect something else?

When Shams’ intersex identity is exposed, the young seamstress’ tranquil life unravels. Engaged in a steamy love triangle and targeted by an obsessive attacker, they escape to the capital city. Taking refuge with their lover’s mystic cousin, they grapple with their complex sense of self. This evocative tale explores the clash between desire and identity.

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Four amorous cheerleaders set out to save their ailing college football team by huddling up on the beach with the rival team...and scoring.

Rare archive footage and Jocky Wilson's own words tell the story of the rise and fall of a cult Scottish sportman. Featuring interviews with his friends and darts contemporaries.

Who is Jocky Wilson? 20 years ago every child in Kirkcaldy, on the east coast of Scotland, could answer this question. One of the best darts players ever, world champion in 1982 and 1989 - a national hero. But in '95 Jocky paid the price for his self destructive life style. In search of his myth, we follow the forces that shaped Jocky's hometown and its inhabitants as we discover lost memories of the man who once inspired the nation.

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

George finished his studies and returned to Greece and his father, Anthony Delistavrou, assigned to the plant in order himself to live his life. He thinks it has conquered Rena, which, however, is a friend of George. Anthony will be forced to land when the learned but would COMFORT her friend Rena, Bill........

A young and pretty girl, Violeta, is in love with a kind young artist, Alekos. The feelings are mutual, but the two young people have to face a severe old maid, aunt Pinelopi.

Openning the pages of diaries of famous people means discovering a small universe of personality. At the beginning of the 20th century, Olena Shovgenova, the daughter of a famous Russian scientist (and later the famous Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliha), found herself with her family in Kyiv, where she fell in love for the first time, but was forced to leave the city and her lover. In Czechoslovakia, the future poetess reveals a shocking fact - Ukrainian culture lives in exile. Here she falls in love with the Cossack Mykhailo Teliha, with whom she later moves to Warsaw. But the desire to return to her beloved Kyiv does not leave Olena.

Mila works in the gallery and stays overnight to prepare for the opening of an important exhibition. In the utility room, she unexpectedly finds a young man who appears to be a robbed artist. The young man persuades Mila to let him stay until morning ...

Imagine falling asleep on the bus and waking up in a world devoid of people, where only a creature that stalks you lives.

Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.

Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.

How many times did a miracle come to the pragmatic clerk Savushkin - and each time he brushed it off, and then powerlessly watched how the miracle and happiness go to another.

Young musician Zhenya Kovalchuk falls in love with aerobatic pilot Yulia. The feeling is mutual, but Yulia cannot bring herself to reveal her feelings to Zhenya. Then the famous, but not yet elderly, Doctor of Science Kressovsky, who also hopes for Yulia's affection, stands in his way. The two suitors clash with their swords, and the duel ends with the doctor being wounded. The doctor intrigues, and Zhenya faces expulsion from the institute.

In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.