Centro de Producción e Investigación Audiovisual (CePIA)

Alex and Dani, two Kelper children living in Stanley, Falkland Islands, skip school to play in the fields, as they usually do every day. One afternoon, when they discover a black, viscous liquid they believe to be oil, their historical differences come to light.

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.

A conscript spends his final Sunday with a host family in Comodoro Rivadavia before he leaves for war.

On the verge of dying, wounded in the Malvinas, Martín hears his own voice coming from the future to rescue him. Thirty years later, Martín reunites with his girlfriend when he had to leave to fight in the Malvinas Islands. He wants to forget; and she needs to remember. Time is not linear, decisions from the past inevitably impact the future.

April 1982. A young man tries to avoid an army medical checkup to avoid traveling to fight in the Falkland Islands.

In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy kidnapped a young Aboriginal man from the Yamán ethnic group. The young man was taken to England aboard the HMS Beagle and christened Jemmy Button, because a mother-of-pearl button was all he paid for him. In England, he learned English and had tea with King William IV. A year later, he returned to his native Tierra del Fuego. Some thirty years later, a reverend set out for the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego. His immediate objective was to find Jemmy Button. The reverend confidently goes to this meeting with someone he assumes is now a "civilized" Aboriginal man. But what he finds comes as a surprise.

During the Falklands War, a young second lieutenant is forced to confront the dilemmas of obedience, honor, and endurance. Amid violence, fear, and uncertainty, the inner surge for dignity and survival prevails.

Pedro is 15 years old and lives in the Piñalito Norte neighborhood, deep in the Misiones jungle. While his rural school teacher assigns him a practical project related to the Malvinas conflict, his father and brothers involve him in a nighttime outing in the woods. They are armed with rifles and shotguns. They are searching for intruders who threaten to occupy their land and exploit it illegally.

It's 1986. A Colombian woman arrives at Ezeiza Airport and gets into a taxi. The World Cup is underway, and Argentina is facing England. The Falklands War is fresh in the collective memory. The taxi driver is listening to the match on the radio: Maradona scores the legendary "Hand of God" goal, and four minutes later, the "Goal of the Century."

A modest law firm receives a somewhat ambiguous assignment regarding some properties from a mysterious foreigner, apparently of American origin. One of the partners is struck by the opaque nature of the case and decides to take some time to investigate. He eventually discovers that the foreigner was English and that it is a scheme to seize a house belonging to an Argentine family.

Javier, a 19-year-old young man drafted into the war, goes to his ex-girlfriend's house seeking forgiveness before he leaves. At the same time, Javier's mother, Alicia, visits an old friend who is now a colonel to ask her to spare him.

A former soldier reunites with his comrades, who are unaware that they are dead.

Pampa in Patagonia. June 1982. A chance encounter between a mute Argentine man who isn't mute, a lying Chilean woman who tells the truth, and some terrifying but actually scared shitless English soldiers gives rise to a dramatic comedy that summarizes three opportunities—the same opportunities that Argentina, Chile, and England failed to take in June 1982.

Two Argentine soldiers, complete strangers, find themselves face-to-face in a foxhole during the Falklands War, forced into a tense and unexpected encounter at the edge of survival.

Using a technique that blends real-life footage with reconstructed environments, the epic finds its place in this short film, which echoes statements by English pilots praising the skill and bravery of their Argentine counterparts, given the problems they caused them despite being at a marked technological disadvantage.

The Falklands War began on April 2, 1982, with the Argentine landing on the islands ordered by Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, and culminated with the cessation of hostilities between Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain on June 14, 1982. Through dynamic editing and the use of archival materials, the documentary considers the war as part of our recent past, but also opens up multiple questions and reflections on contemporary society and the future projection of what such a conflict generates for us Argentines.

Soledad is pregnant with her fourth child. She and her partner, Alberto, are awaiting the arrival of this child at home. They hope for a birth in harmony with nature. We will witness the moments leading up to the baby's arrival and the mother's labor.

Matias faces a very difficult class. The topic will be about the Falklands War, a topic close to his heart. The teacher mentions the letters of Julio Cao, a young elementary school teacher who voluntarily went to the Falklands to defend his country.

On a hilltop in the Falkland Islands, two children, about 10 years old, are finishing their vigil and will soon be replaced by their own mothers, both members of the Falkland Islands Celebration Committee. The purpose of the vigil is to catch a glimpse of the plane that will bring Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to Falkland Islands for the first time to visit her subjects on the islands.