Bafici drew to a close last week, but Alex King went along to Talent Campus, a four-day event run alongside the film festival, to meet the continent’s future film makers.

In 2008 film archivists found a nearly complete version of Fritz Lang’s 1927 epic ‘Metropolis’ in Buenos Aires’ Museo del Cine, and it is due to be shown here for the first time.

The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, one of the most prominent film festivals in the world, opens on 6th April. Renowned as an important outlet for independent cinema, it is a time to catch innovative films that may be hard to otherwise catch.

With the last weeks’ torrential rain and noisy traffic coursing around the avenues of the city, the concept of an outdoor cinema in Buenos Aires might seem laughable.

Argentina has followed in the footsteps of Mexico and Brazil in launching a local version of YouTube, becoming the 25th country in the world to do so.

The first Saturday of Spring (26th September) in Parque Centenario, Villa Crespo was welcomed by a day-long festival of music, arts and circus skills and culminating in an open air cinema screening, courtesy of arts collectives Comando Furgoneta and Cine Libre Parque Abierto.

A huge block of cement and iron sheets containing two hundred artless beds in rows, hosting Buenos Aires’ destitute people, keeping them from sleeping on the cold asphalt. There is talk of Parador Retiro, a nightly refuge for people with no other place to stay and, in difference to most other homes, without any conditions other than soberness, no violence and a free bed.

Ezio Massa must have been the only person praying for Argentina to lose in the Japan–Korea world cup in 2002. Yet for many Argentines the cup presented itself as an opportunity to raise the country from the misery of the economic crisis.

Canal X is Argentina’s answer to the video-sharing phenomenon that has swept the world. It provides an alternative to conventional television and a space to distribute independent art and information with the aim of integrating the Spanish-speaking world.

Most men hit mid-life and buy a sports car, but Arturo Goetz, an Oxford scholar, professional polo player and economist who helped to reduce global starvation, bought himself acting lessons instead. The investment, as you would expect from an economist, proved a sound one.