Pablo Trapero
1) Lion's den
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Julia gives birth to a son after she is sent to the penitentiary for the murder of her lover. Fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally, while her mother Sofia is her opponent. As Marta attempts to teach Julia how to be a mother in the least appropriate place, her mother attempts to gain custody so the child can grow up outside of prison. The duel between Julia and her mother expresses the dilemma of what is better for the child, life with his mother in...
2) Carancho
Publisher
Matanza Cine SRL
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
22 deaths a day, 683 a month, over 8,000 a year, 100,000 over the last decade. In Argentina, traffic accidents are decimating those 35 and under. Festering beneath Argentina's crime-plagued, class-divided society is the quasi-lawless realm of motor vehicle accidents and their aftermath. Sosa is an ambulance-chasing lawyer. He's lost his license, so now he works the late-night streets of Buenos Aires, signing up injured clients for a predatory firm...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
In a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires, Julian and Nicolas work tirelessly to help the local people. Nicolas joins Julian in overseeing the construction of a hospital following the failure of a project he was leading in which paramilitary forces assassinated members of the community. Deeply troubled by his actions, Nicolas finds solace in Luciana. As Nicolas' beliefs wane, work on the hospital is halted, and the faith of the entire community...
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
La abuela Emilia anuncia a toda su familia que su sobrina distante la ha elegido como madrina de su boda, que se celebrará a 1.500 kilómetros de allí. Para ese largo viaje de Buenos aires a Misiones, Emilia desea que todos la acompañen.
When Emilia, an Argentinian grandmother, is invited to be the matron of honor at the wedding of a distant niece, she invites her whole family to accompany her in a 1956 Chevy Viking camper on a cross-country journey...