The FINCA is an international and competitive cinematic event that has been held in Argentina since 2010. In its eighth edition, the festival brings 35 movies from 24 countries which delve into socio-environmental issues and will be screened at the Cine York, la Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aires, el Cine Arte Cacodelphia, el Teatro Empire y el Centro Cultural 25 de Mayo.
The FINCA, organized by the Instituto Multimedia de Derechos Humanos (IMD), is a cultural and social project that extends an invitation to discover how cinema and audiovisual storytelling can foster awareness and commitment to environmental sustainability and human rights. The participant films of this eigth edition, selected via an international open call, is made up of 17 short films, 9 feature films, and 9 Latin American documentaries—all featuring diverse and innovative cinematic storytelling and languages that address the struggles to defend the land as a shared territory from various perspectives. Under the slogan Sembremos Futuro, this edition of FINCA extends an invitation to defend the land as shared territory in the face of a model that encroaches on our ecosystems and communities. In times of catastrophic narratives, the festival seeks to regain the ability to collectively imagine other possible futures as an act of resistance and a call to envision the world we want.
The program is organized across 9 themed sections: Water, Biodiversity, Extractivism, Human Rights, FINQUITA, Climate Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Food Sovereignty, and a Focus on Land and Housing.Some Argentine highlights include Cristian Cartier, Martín Longo, Pablo Piovano, and Maximiliano Goldschmidt’s La vida fracturada. Through a blend of genres rarely seen in documentary filmmaking, it depicts the effects of hydraulic fracturing and indigenous resistance in oil-rich Patagonia. Tierra que habla, by Ana Fraile and Lucas Scavino also stands out as it juxtaposes three worldviews on extractivism and the relationship with the land: Kankuama, Mapuche and scientific. Finally, the short film Propiedad privada prohibido pasar, by Wojciech Ganczarek, explores the difficulties of gaining access to land in Patagonia as experienced by a teacher, a fisherwoman, and a Mapuche couple.
Among the Latin american highlights are Toroboro: el nombre de las plantas (Ecuador, Brazil), by Manolo Sarmiento, which brings together the protagonists of an etnobotanic study conducted on the Waorani people—currently endangered by the oil and logging industries—after 25 years, and has received the Best Documentary Award at the 2025 Biarritz – América Latina Festival; Pau d’Arco (Brazil), by Ana Aranha, which follows a witness and a lawyer for seven years on their search for justice in the wake of a massacre of landless rural workers in the Amazon; Karuara, la gente del río (Perú, Canada), by Miguel Aráoz and Stephanie boyd, combining animation and documentary to explore the worldview of the kukama-kukamiria people and won the Best Peruvian Film at the 2024 Lima Film Festival; and De la guerra fría a la guerra verde (Paraguay), by Anna Recalde Miranda, which explores the legacy of the Paraguayan dictatorship and extractivism from a human rights perspective and had its world premiere at IDFA (Amsterdam), the world’s leading documentary film festival.
The international program boasts Yintah (Canada), by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano, which chronicles more than a decade of resistance by the Wet’suwet’en Nation to protect their ancestral lands from the extractive industry; The Tree of Authenticity (Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, France), by Sammy Baloji, presents an experimental film on the colonial legacy of one of Africa’s largest agricultural research centers, and won the Special Jury Prize at the 2025 IFFR; Eleanor Mortimer’s How Deep Is Your Love, which follows a group of biologists on an expedition to the Pacific to discover and classify newly-found species from the ocean floor while deep-sea mining threatens to destroy the ecosystem before we have a chance to understand it; and The Cost of Growth (Belgium), by Thomas Maddens, which connects local territory struggles in Serbia, Italy and Sapmi with global debates on climate justice, and features Greta Thunberg.
The opening gala will be held Wednesday, August 12 at 6 p.m. at the Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aires, with the screening of Não Haverá mais história sem nós (Brazil, Portugal / 2024 / 76 mins.), a documentary by Priscilla Brasil. In this film manifesto, two Amazonian filmmakers denounce the historical process of inventing and exploiting the rainforest as an inexhaustible Garden of Eden, revealing how racism and prejudice are still organized around the concept of a ‘savage demographic void’ unable to speak for itself.
As a new feature of this edition, FINCA is presenting , its first regional audiovisual lab for productions with social impact. The 18 directors and producers of the 9 Argentine and Latin American selected projects will take part in a week of in person intensive training with industry professionals. As part of Semillas Lab, and thanks to the collaboration of the Embassy of Spain in Argentina, the Spanish visual artist Enar de Dios Rodríguez will offer a free masterclass on “Sabotaging the Future” on Thursday, August 13 at 3 p.m. at the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires (CCEBA, by its spanish acronym). From an interdisciplinary practice that combines video, photography, and installations, Enar will shar eher creativ eprocess and reflect on how to research and produce pieces from a perspective that includes politics, the territory, and the environment.
Also, as in previous editions, the program includes FINQUITA, a series of short films for the whole family, which will be screened on Saturday, August 15 at 6 p.m. at Cine York. The series includes Cuidemos el planeta (Argentina, Carolina Feity), El viaje de luz (Argentina, Jorge Ortino), El día que aprendí a volar (Venezuela, Orlymar Paredes Morales), Soc Aigua / Soy agua (Spain, Roser Cussó) and Ecocidio (Argentina, Aldana Loiseau), apart from special screenings for selected schools.
PROGRAM AND TICKET INFORMATION
→ The complete program will be available soon at www.festivalfinca.com and their social media profiles (@festivalfinca on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok).
→ Tickets are free at Cine York and Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aires. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
→ For Cine Arte Cacodelphia, Teatro Empire and Centro Cultural 25 de Mayo, please book your ticket online on their websites or in person before the film begins.
ABOUT THE IMD
The Instituto Multimedia de Derechos Humanos (IMD) is a non-profit civil association founded on March 8, 1999, in Buenos Aires, based on the belief that audiovisual arts are a powerful tool to raise awareness and foster social transformation. The Institute organizes three film festivals: the FICDH, Latin America’s first human rights film festival, which was founded in 1997 and tours various cities across the continent; the FINCA, created in 2010 to promote awareness of and commitment to environmental sustainability; and the FINCA.DH, which combines both perspectives and extends this intersection between the environment and human rights to new countries in the region.
FINCA is supported by the Macro Foundation, the Cultural Patronage Program (Mecenazgo Cultural) of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, the Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y las Ciencias, the embassies of Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, and Spain in Argentina, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires (CCEBA), and the Voice Over Foundation.
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