In Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Sderot & Rosh-Pina Cinematheques

The Argentine Film Week is sponsored and organized by the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Israel, involving Ambassador Carlos Faustino García, Cultural Attaché Manrique Lucio Altavista, Programmer Tomás Dotta and Producer Mariana Fernández. It is supported by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA).

The Film Week was inaugurated in the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque on Monday, November 11, 2013. The ceremony started with addresses by Tel-Aviv Cinematheque Manager Alon Garboz, Ambassador Carlos Faustino García and Cultural Attaché Manrique Lucio Altavista to the distinguished diplomatic and artistic representatives and guests.

Then, the film "The Ethnographer" (El Etnógrafo) was screened.

The distinguished guests included Gila Almagor and Yaacov Agmon, film director Jorge Gurvich,journalist and film director Shlomo Slutzky, and Manager of the Department of Culture and Arts in Tel-Aviv Municipality, Iris Mor.

The film "The Ethnographer" was directed by Ulisses Rosell in 2012. The film with deals the Wichi Indians in Chaco, Argentina, and with an American ethnologist, John Palmer, than rather than finishing his thesis, marries a native and has a large family. He strives to support the Wichi Indians cause, getting involved in law suits and confronting companies which pillage land that belongs to the Indians with complete impunity.

The Argentine films included in this festival will be screened in the cinematheques of Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Sderot and Rosh-Pina. The calendar of the screenings is shown below.