Valentín Javier Diment
2021Bring Me the Head of Antonio Mayans
Felipe M. Guerra
Antonio Mayans, Valentín Javier Diment
Veteran Spanish actor Antonio Mayans is kidnapped by a director with whom he made a terrible film in the past, and whose career was destroyed by the failure of it. He seeks revenge and wants Mayans to act on his new project: a snuff movie.
Bring Me the Head of Antonio Mayans
La Feliz: continuidades de la violencia
Valentín Javier Diment
An essay on parastatal violence that establishes links and points of contact between two little-known moments in Argentine history: the action of the CNU (Concentración Nacional Universitaria) in the seventies and the actions of neo-fascist groups in the present.
La Feliz: Continuities of Violence
El apego
Valentín Javier Diment
Jimena Anganuzzi, Lola Berthet
Argentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and offers to provide shelter in her house until the child is born. Their disturbed personalities will become intertwined in a strange and dangerous relationship.
The Attachment Diaries
Culto al terror
Gustavo Leonel Mendoza
Gustavo Leonel Mendoza, Dario Argento
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
Cult of Terror
El proprietario
Valentín Javier Diment, Luis Ziembrowski
Jimena Anganuzzi, Carla Crespo
Lara, a lesbian soap opera actress moves into an apartment. Hector is her neighbor. A dark and withdrawn character that records each of her movements through hidden cameras. His obsession grows.
The Owner
El eslabón podrido
Valentín Javier Diment
Germán de Silva, Marilú Marini
Prostitute Roberta lives with her brother and demented mother in an Argentinian rural village. Mother warns Roberta that she can have sex with almost any man in the village, except one – because then she would be killed. However, this last candidate, Sicilio, has put his sights on her.
The Rotten Link
La memoria del muerto
Valentín Javier Diment
Jimena Anganuzzi, Lola Berthet
Forty-nine days after George’s death his wife, Alicia, calls friends who wanted to read over the letter that he left before he died. It is a very affectionate and moving letter, which addresses each of those present, knowing that his death is near. Little do they know that they are part of a ritual prepared by Alicia, with the connivance of Santiago, the closest friend of George, to bring him back to life – and that ritual, full of ghostly apparitions, traumatic and terrifying, will be gaining further life from each of the guests. The surprising twists in the plot will lead up to the most unexpected of endings.
Memory of the Dead
La valija de Benavidez
Laura Casabé
Guillermo Pfening, Jorge Marrale
During his entire existence, art teacher Benavidez has been living in the shadow of his formidable father, a famous artist who constantly reminded his son of his lack of talent and vision. Even more painful is that the love of his life, one of his ex-students, reveals herself to be a gifted artist. To some she’s even considered to be the true successor to Benavidez’s father. It’s no wonder that this creates tensions and after a devastating lovers quarrel, Benavidez puts all his artworks into a big case and, having nowhere else to go, drags it to his shrink. The man specializes in treating creative spirits and even has an artist’s colony in the basement of his huge mansion. As part of their therapy, his patients produce artworks that get sold for lucrative prizes at auctions organized by the psychiatrist himself. When he looks at what’s inside the case of Benavidez, he realizes that the son has finally surpassed his father.
Benavidez’s Case
Jorge y Alberto contra los demonios neoliberales
Hernán Quintana, Gonzalo Quintana
Andrea Carballo, Gonzalo Quintana
Jorge and Alberto are two wizards in Buenos Aires. One works as an assistant in a courthouse, while another is pining for his magical glory days. During their weekly ritual, they discover that Saturn has turned, which mostly means much mayhem and doom. They are proven right, when Argentina’s president storms in and asks Jorge and Alberto to save her daughter from the clutches of Judge Fayo, a man who wants to achieve the triumph of neoliberalism. During their search for the girl, Jorge and Alberto will have to deal with demons from another dimension. And that all before midnight! Time to dust off their magic tricks, because the fate of the world is at stake!
Jorge & Alberto vs. The Neoliberal Demons
