Patagonia Rising

Dinolandia

April 2025 •Spanish

A mechanic discovers the fossil of a huge carnivorous dinosaur, unleashing a war between scientists, mayors and neighboring towns to keep “the biggest dinosaur in the world.” Among bone thefts, replicas and a mayor obsessed with creating Dinolandia, anything goes when it comes to surviving.

A Stamp

June 1981 •

A powerful ironic work of the society in which a hydro-central is erected in an area where there is no water.

The Settlers

October 2023 •Spanish

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

The Pearl Button

October 2015 •Spanish

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Grand Coulee Dam

April 2017 •English

During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It would be the "Biggest Thing on Earth," the salvation of the common man, a dam and irrigation project that would make the desert bloom, a source of cheap power that would boost an entire region of the country. Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination, promising to fulfill President Franklin Roosevelt's vision for a "planned promised land" where hard-working farm families would finally be free from the drought and dislocation caused by the elements.

Patagonie Force 10

January 1983 •French

A team of 12 men, 5 sailors, a doctor, a writer, a film crew, and 3 mountaineers, Jean-Marc Boivin, Thierry Leroy, and Dominique Marchal, set off by sailboat from Mar del Plata in Argentina to reach Riso Patron in Chile, via the Strait of Magellan, the Patagonian Channels, and Falcon Fjord. Their goal is to climb Riso Patron and then make the first crossing of the Campo de Hielo Sur glacier, or Hielo Continental Patagónico, to meet up with the sailors in Puerto Williams on Navarino Island in Chile, a village at the end of the world. After three attempts and an accident for Leroy, who was repatriated, they gave up, crossed the glacier and rejoined the boat, to set off for Cape Horn to climb the South face, knowing that the weather was good one day a month... On January 20, 1983, Jean-Marc Boivin and Dominique Marchal succeeded in making the first ascent of the South face of Cape Horn.

Yerba Mala

Invalid date •Spanish

Stories of the Argentine West

December 2023 •Spanish

At a tabern in the argentine interior, xenophobia among gauchos is in charge of blurring the line between the law and the trap.

David Lama - Off Limits On Rock and Ice

March 2014 •German

The Tyrolean David Lama has climbed an 8a route already at the age of ten, and he has become several times Youth World Champion and European Youth Champion in bouldering and lead climbing. In 2010, at the age of 20 years, David decided to leave the indoor climbing and competition world behind him. Since then, he is focusing on Alpinism, the most difficult routes and first ascents in the Alps, but as well in India and America. This documentary portrays David Lama from his first climbing attempts as a little boy to his big adventures in present time. We see famous locations, such as the climbing paradise on Lake Garda, the notorious Sagwand Face in the Zillertal Alps, and the 7.821m high Masherbrum in the Karakorum with its still untouched north east face.

Contrabando

Invalid date •Portuguese

Amanda

January 2023 •Spanish

Amanda, a young Mapuche Huilliche woman from Chilean Patagonia, fishes with her uncle, but exploitation by multinational salmon companies has made her work difficult. She falls in love with Manuel, who decides to join the fight against intensive salmon farming in Santiago. Amanda must choose between staying or following him.

Ginebra tales

October 2025 •Spanish

A young man starts a conversation with an old man in a bar, who tells him one of his exploits in exchange for a drink.

Toska

May 2023 •Spanish

Pumas in Patagonia

October 2019 •English

A story told with no words but with the power of sound and visuals of unspoiled Patagonia.

Andate a lavorare

April 2022 •Italian

Runaway Heart

April 2023 •Spanish

Juan, a young rural bandit, is in a relationship with a lady who is wanted by the aggressive town commissioner. He must solve his problems with the law, even if it costs him to lose love. Based on the story of Juan Bautista Vairoletto, 'The Argentinian Robin Hood'.

35 dias dirigindo até Ushuaia dormindo e cozinhando no carro | Patagônia

Invalid date •Portuguese

Documentary showing a couple of photographers driving for 35 days, leaving Brazil for Ushuaia.

Ultima Patagonia : la dernière frontière

March 2023 •French

Una carta de Leticia

October 2017 •Spanish

Leticia was 17 years old when she was kidnapped from school. She had arrived in Cipolletti a year earlier from the Vicente López National School in Buenos Aires. This letter was found while searching for photos and testimonies from those days.

Tryweryn, The Story of a Valley

April 1965 •English

Devastation of a Welsh-speaking community: Capel Celyn village and farms of the Tryweryn Valley disappear beneath the waters of a reservoir so Liverpool’s thirst may be slaked.