10/06/2026
Interested in experiencing more of the best of Argentinean arts and culture? Here are some films on the festival circuit to watch for as they come onto general release in the coming year: Glaxo (Argentina-Brazil, 2026)
“Naishtat returns to the disturbing collective psychology portrait of ‘Rojo’, charting the impunity of power — a cop, and the Glaxo corporation — and a tale of betrayals in its central coming of age section.”
Variety
Competing for the title of Best Film against nine other features in the Official Competition this year, Benjamín Naishtat(‘s fifth film Glaxo is a taut period-noir-thriller and loss-of-innocence story set over three different timelines. Bringing together some of the best Argentine and Brazilian talent, the film is an adaptation of Hernán Ronsino’s short novel of the same name - in turn partly inspired by Rodolfo Walsh’s classic Operation Massacre - and weaves personal tragedy with Argentina’s turbulent twentieth-century history.
The Match (Argentina-Spain, 2026)
“War and football combine in a sports film with bite.” The Times
The controversial and now-legendary 1986 World Cup Quarter Final between England and Argentina brought into focus one of sporting history’s most compelling rivalries, underscored by long-standing tensions between the two countries. Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco revisit the spitfire match that produced both Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” and his “Goal of the Century” as well as fanning the fires of the feud between England and Argentina fans for years to come. But The Match, which premiered at Cannes earlier this year, isn’t simply a football documentary: it places the game within the context of the geopolitical conflict that had occurred between the two nations just four years before. Gary Lineker, John Barnes, Peter Shilton, Jorge Valdano and other players from both sides return to the event, creating a fascinating collision between sporting memory and national history.
Prince (Uruguay-Argentina, 2026)
Receiving its World Premiere at this year’s London Film Festival, Federico Borgia’s Prince: is a kitsch dog-centred comedy about a prize-winning Afghan hound who inherits his owner’s house after she dies, leaving her former lover and butler to live with the dog while the human heirs wait for his demise. A darkly funny and original examination of money, inheritance and family that will have audiences willing for Prince’s triumph beyond the show ring.
Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 2026)
“Erudite enough to satisfy scholars while playfully honouring Borges’s reputation for trickery.” Slant Magazine
At 323 minutes, Mariano Llinás’ Life of Jorge Luis Borges could be seen as a deliberate challenge to the digitally eroded attention span (the film is screened with two ten-minute intervals after Part 1 and Part 2 respectively). But the director of the epic 13-hour La Flor and El Pampero Cine co-founder is hardly likely to have made a conventional literary biography. Instead, Llinás (who will also be judging the LFF Official Competition entries) constructs a labyrinthine portrait of Borges through objects, places, archives and the very process of trying to reconstruct another person’s life. The result is part biography and part detective story as well as a meditation on what biography can actually tell us.
- texts courtesy Argentine Film Festival London
