Alberto Busaid

Four independent short stories but they have in common that they happen in Buenos Aires during legislative elections. A candidate for deputy, Carlos Celestini floods the city with his image and can be seen in each of the stories.

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next.

In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.

An anthropologist arrives on an island inhabited by two tribes, one dark-haired and the other blonde, and begins to form a close relationship with a young woman from the latter group. One of the few co-productions between Argentina and Sweden, this is an erotic comedy featuring actors from both countries.

Alberto, who has been married to Laura for twenty years, meets Monica in his office, a serious and formal employee with whom he strikes up a friendship.

A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.

Facundo is a normal and normal boy, who needs a job to survive. He has just finished high school and is in a critical situation that does not allow him to continue studying. This is how he begins to wander around the city for several days until one morning, through a classified ad, he meets Doctor Benavidez, a man of respectable appearance, who offers him a job in decent conditions. But not everything is what it seems.

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.

An entomologist returns to Buenos Aires, after a long expedition in Africa. Upon arrival he finds that his wife, who had not heard from him in a long time, has remarried.

A young couple has established an unusual family role: she works and he does the housework. Until one day, the couple's best friend intrudes on the tranquility of the home.

Set in Buenos Aires. A man is called upon to identify and evaluate an unfinished and enigmatic painting thought to be the work of the famous painter, Bax. Slowly he finds himself enmeshed in the mysteries of its identification leading him slowly to murder, insanity and death.

Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.

Ariel Llanarte, writer and journalist forced to live abroad, decides to return to the country. He has the purpose of finding out the reason why his best friend disappeared.

Mingo, Carlitos and Tristán are three friends who run a humble moving company together. One day, while they are having dinner at Carlitos' house, a baby is left at his door with a letter in which they are asked to take the baby to the province of Córdoba so that he's not in danger. From there, a series of entanglements begin as they are taken as kidnappers and fugitives from the law.

Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.

A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.

Tristan and Salvador, two best friends, go on vacation to Mar del Plata. Salvador decides to go his own way, and Tristan has to work as a waiter in a hotel to make ends meet.

Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act.

After a chance meeting, two former lovers look back on their relationship.