An ıntroduction to Argentinian Film

Argentina has long been known especially in the Spanish-speaking world for the quality of its film industry yet censorship and repression under the military junta in the 1970s severely curtailed Argentina’s film industry. The effects of that period carried over into the next decade, as post junta cinema largely dealt with issues surrounding what would become known as the ‘dirty war’. Despite the lack of risk in the shape and content of films from the 1980s, there were exceptions, including Luis Puenzo’s The Official Film Story (1985), which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
The 1990s marked a new...