Manuel Embalse Movies

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival...

This fully archival journey through the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay reveals unseen footage and explores one of the...

Authorities have prohibited access to a forest on the outskirts of the city. Strange vegetation has infested the area, and those who have been...

Miren Felder died on top of a snowy mountain after a plane crash in 1977. The director discovers secret messages from her grandmother in photographs...

At the end of the 1960s, Argentine artist Leandro Katz participated in “Theatre of the Ridiculous”, an eccentric group linked to New...

The filmmaker decides to make a film in an attempt to remember a dream from his notes: at the crossroads of essay and diary, the film offers a...

In a country where the consumption of meat is prohibited, a group of vegans face off against the last resistance of barbecue lovers.

According to the myth still in force in the coal towns of Patagonia, if a woman enters a mine, the earth becomes jealous. Then, there’s...

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and...

The Antes Muerto Cine collective presents an episodic film about nature, technology, politics, violence and affection; about times past and times to...

A look back at the murder of a teenager by the Buenos Aires police, through the words of his mother and her obsessive observation of the place of his...

A ship is shipwrecked on a desert island in the Río de la Plata. One of the crew, without name or age, wanders through the ruins of a city...

What is it like to produce images in 2020 while blind? Zezé Fassmor is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist living in Buenos Aires: "I do...

One day, I found a box in the trash with super 8 cartridges and a book entitled “Catalog”. The images could be from a cameraman of the...

The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian...

After collecting multiple records related to a painful family tragedy, Victor dives into the archive in search of answers about what really happened...

A young author sets off to Argentina to seek the lost fragments of her life story. Using the archival photographs and a personal narrative, this...

There is a monster in Lake Nahuel Huapi. At twilight, it spreads across the surface of the water like a taut cowhide, grabbing its victims with sharp...