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From ‘Alive’ to ‘Society of the Snow,’ the true story behind the Andes flight...
In 1972, a plane carrying a group of Uruguayan teenage rugby players from the Old Christians team crashed in the Andes en route to Chile to play a match. Lost and isolated in the most inhospitable...
View ArticleAkira Kurosawa at the MALBA: a special January film season
The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA, by its Spanish acronym) is offering a unique program of eight films by Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The films, all in 35mm prints,...
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Digital culture roundup: How X saved a kitten and fell in love with an opossum
Last December, while Argentina was in the throes of the change of government, the X algorithm started to recommend content about a young woman who was helping baby white-eared opossums recover from an...
View ArticleTeatro Colón fires musical director after child sex offense charge
British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig was removed from his position as musical director of the Teatro Colón on Friday after being charged with sexual offenses against minors. He was arrested at London...
View ArticleTranslation troubles: little summer green beans
Veranito Facundo wrote a story on Tuesday about exchange rates increasing after a period of relative stability, which is referred to as a veranito in Argentina. When he asked if there was an English...
View ArticleFilm industry leaders come out against Milei’s ‘omnibus bill’
Santiago Mitre, director of the Oscar nominated film Argentina 1985, appeared before Congress on Monday to speak out against Javier Milei’s “omnibus bill,” which severs public funds for the local film...
View ArticlePedro Almodóvar, Diego Luna, Andy Muschietti defend Argentina’s Film Institute
Pedro Almodóvar, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Andy Muschietti, Juan Antonio Bayona, and four-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu are some of the dozens of Hollywood and European...
View ArticleOscars: Chile makes history with two nominations
Chilean cinema secured two Oscar nominations on Tuesday, an all-time first for the country. Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory was nominated for Best Documentary, while Pablo Larrain’s The Count got a...
View ArticleArgentina’s long history of economic chaos: a film tutorial
Argentine cinema has been depicting the country’s unique and frenzied economic woes since its very beginning. It has taken the form of social commentary, like Hugo del Carril’s Las aguas bajan turbias...
View ArticleTranslation troubles: gimme ball
Entre gallos y medianoche This came up when Facundo and I covered the CGT strike on Wednesday — a union representative criticized the government for discussing a bill as wide-sweeping as the omnibus...
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An exhibition that explores AI, culture, and what it means to be an artist today
Technology and art have long overlapped, but talk about crossovers between the two has skyrocketed since the eruption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Although its artistic potential seems endless,...
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Translation troubles: half oranges
Valentine’s Day isn’t a massive date in Argentina — but I still thought I’d help you out with some of our love-related terms and phrases. If you have someone special in mind, there are plenty of date...
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Why is Milei feuding with Argentine popstar Lali Espósito? Here’s what you...
Argentina has quickly become accustomed to President Javier Milei’s fierce and oftentimes derogatory words directed at opposing deputies and provincial governors. That’s not a surprise anymore. What...
View ArticleTranslation troubles: the divine button
Si te digo que es carnaval Since it was carnival week, let’s start with an oldie: si te digo que es carnaval, apretá el pomo. A pomo in this context is a squeezy plastic bottle that people used to...
View ArticleTranslation troubles: in diapers
Churro Earlier this week, I walked into the newsroom and was greeted with people eagerly calling to me. “Valen! We need your opinion on this,” they said. A lunchtime debate: how to translate churro...
View ArticleArgentina’s 2022 World Cup win: 4 documentaries to relive the glory
It might seem a lifetime ago in the time warp that is Argentine daily life, but it was just barely a year ago when the entire country basked in the glory of its 2022 win at the Qatar World Cup. A...
View ArticleArgentina’s film institute carries out massive layoff
Argentina’s Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute (INCAA) is moving ahead with massive layoffs and will end its financial support for film schools and festivals across the country. According to minutes...
View ArticleTranslation troubles: buying mailboxes
Carpetazo As with all of today’s translation troubles, this one came up in newsroom conversation. The word carpeta means folder and gave rise to a lunfardo verb carpetear, meaning to spy on someone...
View ArticleInternational Booker Prize: four South American authors among the finalists
Argentine writer Selva Almada’s Not a River made it into the International Booker Prize’s longlist of 13 finalists, which was announced on Monday. The selection includes books by South American...
View ArticleGovernment slashes Argentine film institute’s operational funds
President Javier Milei’s administration officially suspended the operational funding of the National Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA by its Spanish initials) as part of its austerity...
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