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COMPANIONS deals with the love between people and dogs. It’s made up of scenes of intimacy—caresses, habits, games, cares, stories of coming and loss, of protection, and uprooting. The stories intertwine and make up a map of love and its enigmas.

Year 1866. Venancio, a young gaucho, embarks on a journey to escape from a curse through a war-torn region desperately seeking salvation among rustlers, priests, shamans and deserters. The stronger his fear is, the more real the legend becomes.

In 2017, 100 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, no official event was held in Russia. The central government decided to confine the memory of the Revolution to museums. In this climate of forgetfulness, some scenes detached from reality bring the past to the present. Two young roofers, Nikita and Karl, explore the city, search for historical remains and specific places, climb the roofs. In their wandering they find abandoned buildings and balconies. Katya, an apparently older woman, walks through one of the capital spaces of the revolutionary process: the Champ de Mars, in St. Petersburg. Katya tells about the February Revolution, which ended the Romanov dynasty. It recalls the post-revolutionary period and rescues the figure of one of the most interesting intellectuals and scientists of the time: Aleksandr Bogdanov, author of a utopian science fiction book called Red Star.

Máximo Ferradas, businessman and youngest son of a powerful family of lifelong fishermen, asks Francisco, his father, for his share of the inheritance. Thus, he begins a long journey that will take him to distant lands, trying to build his own empire. He settles in Perla del Mar, a fishing town in Argentine Patagonia, where he meets Caviedes, a pleasant and enigmatic businessman who offers him the top of business; Coletto, an artisanal fisherman, with whom he faces death due to the fishing law; and Maite, a beautiful and lonely woman, with whom he falls in love for the first time. Maximo plunges into this world. There, so vertiginously he will enjoy his rise, and then suffer his fall ... and then find his redemption.

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.

The history of art could be told from some oddities called pentimenti or "regrets", traces that were hidden on a canvas or paper, sometimes under other layers of paint, sometimes as if they were a patch. The Argentine plastic artist Antonio Seguí, reencounters with one of his first works "Rabinos rabiosos" after sixty years of its creation. And in the reunion, an image is revealed, hidden behind the painting for more than half a century.

Ramiro is a bar cook. Hernán is an unemployed technician. Nora is a nurse in a public hospital. Lucia sells books in a bookstore. Four stories and a black and white city with persistent rain. None of them know each other, they are only inhabitants of the same city.

On July 18, 1994, young Benjamín Sheinberg begins his first day as a resident doctor at the Hospital de Clínicas, in Buenos Aires, while at the same time a bomb explodes at the AMIA, causing the death of 85 people. Sheinberg is overwhelmed by the situation that affects him beyond his professional level and decides to go to Israel. There, with the help of Rubén, an old friend of his grandfather, he will “travel” in time, entering the ancient history of Israel, seeing himself reflected in the ancient character Jacob. But what connection is there between both characters?

The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places, are forever transformed by the war in Malvinas Argentinas (Falkland Islands).

Luca, a reserved real-estate employee, is faced with the bureaucracy that prevents a construction from moving forward, which drives him to turn to a representative who will turn him into his front man. Blinded by ambition, he doesn’t notice that this will lead to a limitless fall.
