Salamanca Cine

Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the 'Vecinos de Pompeya', a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight, the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio's last possession of value before stealing his heart.

A documentary that tells the story of one of the most successful Argentine films of the ‘90s: Wild Tango. With a controversy that few people know about and several detractors, the undeniable fact is that it was the first approach to cinema and local rock for an entire generation.

The talent scouts of the Boca Juniors athletic club travel the most remote clubs, courts and paddocks with the aim of discovering the future cracks of Argentine football. The film takes a close look at the work of evaluating more than 40,000 boys, looking to find the most talented.

In a Buenos Aires hospital, Dr. Esteban Rubinstein tackles general medicine from an extramoral viewpoint. Basing himself on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical oeuvre, in his office he builds with his patients a space of reflection on the body, health and sickness.

Telma is 74 years old and has some dreams to fulfill. One of them is to reunite her daughter Lili with her first love, a Malvinas soldier with whom she exchanged letters during the 1982 war. Telma will try to reunite them to make the promised meeting happen after 35 years.

In 1986, President Raúl Alfonsín attempted to move the Argentine capital to the small city of Viedma, in Río Negro. This film tells of the rise and fall of one of the biggest, most extravagant dreams in our history.

Rocío González was always a soccer lover. Not being on the court as a player, she chose to find her place as a referee. From his place he develops the exercise of justice inside the field, and sometimes outside as well.

In 1971, a group of Argentine soccer players traveled to Mexico to represent their country for the first time in a World Cup. After the false promises of a businessman, when they arrive at their destination they discover that they are alone, without boots, without shirts and without a technical director. By dint of goals and personality they became the favorites of the Mexican public and today make up one of the main and forgotten pages in the history of Argentine football.

In this short film we accompany Sasha Gigliani, soccer player and Miss Argentina, for an entire afternoon, from her weekly beauty routine to her work as an athlete and influencer on the Estudiantes de La Plata field.

Carla Mileo is a sports journalist and women's soccer reporter on the public sports channel. From the Arsenal Fútbol Club field in Sarandí, she tells us about her work and her path to becoming part of Argentine soccer.