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The Historias Breves (Brief Stories) Contest can be considered the first entryway for young directors and comprehensive filmmakers to INCAA and is part of the framework for the promotion of new directors in the field of national production. Directors of the stature of Lucrecia Martel, Vanessa Ragone, Bruno Stagnaro, Daniel Burman, Adrián Caetano, Rodrigo Grande, Hernán Belón, Santiago Loza, Andrés Muschietti, and Mónica Lairana, among many others, had their first experiences thanks to Historias Breves.
In this national edition of the contest, applicants presented short films from all over Argentina and its territories. These are the first two feature films that show the quality and originality of the audiovisual creations that reside in every corner of our Nation.
Como dos extraños
Damián Martínez - 13’
Marcos does the math: 1,095 days since Camila got on the bus for the first time. About to graduate, Marcos watches her in love, as he struggles to overcome his own fears and approach her to talk to her.
Bendecido
Gabriela Tello D'Elia - 14’
In a small town in northern Argentina, the tradition of dressing up children in the colors of Saint Nicholas on the Saint's day, becomes an unbearable burden for a woman and her son. But something happens in the countryside that triggers her to make a decision.
Zona gris
Laura Juárez - 13’
A woman is locked in a hotel to comply with a strict epidemiological quarantine. In this forced solitude, she reads a book that opens up an unimaginable reality.
Anticuerpo
Sofía Chizzini, Ludmila Rogel - 14’
Nina goes in search of something to use as a strange spiritual offering on the edges of an abandoned city. But there is one thing missing. That night, the longest of winter, Nina will finish her task.
La temporada
María Ulrich - 14’
On his first day on a farm in Alto Valle, Laucha is intrigued by a giant prize-winning pumpkin. Noticing Norma and Alberto’s evasiveness about how it got so big, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the secret behind its size.
Eco y reverberancia
Fernanda Taleb - 14’
Dazed by the reprimand of one of her professors, Inés begins to write a letter to her brother. A first person narrative that portrays her as fragile and full of insecurities, yet also reveals her to be precise and determined when confronting an abusive neighbor.
