Guido Botto Fiora

Eyes of the Abyss

A soldier awakens on a warship littered with corpses, her memories fragmented. She embarks on a dangerous journey, battling adversaries and struggling to survive.

Bill 79

Inspired by true events. Buenos Aires, 1979. Bill Evans, the great jazz pianist, arrives in Argentina for a series of concerts. One of them is in San Nicolás, a town in the province of Buenos Aires. Evans (a heroin addict for twenty years), along with his two musicians and his manager, get into the Argentine businessman's car. On the day of the concert, they learn they will be playing during the "Miss Winter 1979" pageant. Out-of-tune piano, boxing, drugs, death, memories, whiskey, and empanadas. In a town similar to his childhood, the impossible and the true collide for Evans.

Cheese Head

It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.

Humo bajo el agua

A look at love and friendship in a historic moment for Argentina after the recovery of democracy. It tells the story of Julián, a young ranch hand who is reunited with Patricio, the son of his boss and his childhood friend. The passage of time and being face to face in the countryside where they were born, will make them realize that their childhood affection has become an indomitable feeling.

Disco Limbo

A young man briefly meets another young man in a party and loses sight of him after a experiencing a quick crush. The search begins, with both love and exorcism. With the help of a girlfriend who now lives far away but keeps him company in her own way, he tries to find him in parties and similar situations to that of their first encounter. But none of this is actually what it seems. Disco Limbo plants its flag on common fiction grounds and creates its own language, made of mountain settings, dubbed voices, animated topographies, tutorials, video games, deserts, karaoke, and endless parties. The result is a journey in which time and space aren’t necessary companions, and where there’s so much distance between words and pictures as it exists between the boy who is searching and the one who –we can conclude– is escaping.

The Religious

Set in a rural town in the province of Buenos Aires, it portrays a stifling relationship between an overprotective mother and her young son, while he maintains a secret affair with another local boy.

La entrevista

Errantes

El corral

Rafa is 28 years old and lives with his parents in a small town in the province. Their daily life begins to suffocate him when his desires go beyond the narrow limits of the town.

Lucia's New Boyfriend

Santiago returns to Argentina with his wife Ana and they organize a dinner party with friends. Moments before everyone arrives, Ana confesses to Santiago that Lucía, her best friend, will be attending with her new boyfriend. Santiago is shocked to discover that it's someone with whom he shares a dark past.