Rebelling against the banality of work, Rodrigo Moreno’s playful and restorative Cannes highlight reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure in which love and epiphanies bloom. A beguiling and defiant quest for personal freedom that dares to embrace the strangeness of life with open arms.

Fuelled by a top-form ensemble cast, The Magic Gloves is one of Argentine auteur Martín Rejtman’s funniest films. This clever, humorous take on the mid-30s crisis is another trademark mix of absurdist charm and endearing warmth. A unique view of Buenos Aires full of lively, strange characters.

Argentine director Rodrigo Moreno was exploring questions of distended time and romantic flukes long before The Delinquents. Coloring heartbreak in moody, tobacco-stained hues, this quasi-literary odyssey counts the late Rosario Bléfari among its surfeit of unexpected pleasures.