“National Film Day Celebrations: Argentine Productions on Screen at the Gaumont Cinema”

The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and the Gaumont Cinema celebrate at the Month of Cine National, a special program made up of emblematic Argentine productions from different eras and styles. The screenings will take place in the Leonardo Favio Hall at 8:00 p.m. from May 4 to 31.

The program is made up of a total of 16 highlighted Argentine feature filmsamong which are The auraby Fabian Bielinsky; Inheritanceby Paula Hernández; It’s not you I am, by Juan Taratuto; and The student, by Santiago Mitre; among other films of our recent cinematographic history.

“Tango!”: the first Argentine sound film, which disconcerted Hollywood

In addition, 20 years after its premieres, they can be enjoyed again on the big screen The bottom of the seaDamián Szifron’s debut feature, and the little polishby Juan Carlos Desanzo; and, ten years after its premiere, They were coldby Lucia Puenzo. As a closure of the cycle, the functions of Monday 29 and Wednesday 31 will be with free admission: they can be seen fire housesby Juan Bautista Stagnaro, presented by Comunidad Cinéfila, and the documentary by Aníbal Uset, Rock, until the sun goes downwhich is part of Gaumont Tributes “50 years”.

The cycle is carried out within the framework of the National Film Daywhich is celebrated on May 23, in homage to the first plot film in our country, The May Revolutiondirected by Mario Gallo and premiered at the Ateneo Theater in Buenos Aires on May 23, 1909. The director, an immigrant from Barletta, Italy, had previously directed the short films Squares and walks of Buenos Aires (1907), Dorrego’s execution (1908) y Camila O´Gorman (1910).

JL