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They say that familiarity breeds contempt. Siblings Maria Jose (Valeria Giorcelli) and Jesus (Pablo Sigal) have buried theirs, managing to coexist in close proximity since childhood. Is this because thy have simply avoided changing during that time? Maria Jose loves The Wizard Of Oz, has a guinea pig named Toto and manages her emotions through play. Jesus dreams of becoming a filmmaker, making short home movies with Toto as the star. But there is a serious side to their life. Maria Jose has spent many months providing full time care to their ailing father, who recently died after falling down the stairs. Still more disruptive than this loss, however, is the arrival of their half sister, Magdalena (Augustina Cervino).

To Magdalena, the situation is very simple. There are three of them so each is entitled to a third of the inheritance. As little remains by way of liquid assets, due to.

Stars: Pablo Sigal, Agustina Cerviño, Valeria Giorcelli | Written and Directed by Martín Blousson, Macarena García Lenzi

Jesus and Maria José live together in the grand house that belonged to their recently deceased father. Their playful routine is disrupted when Magdalena, their half sister on their dad’s side, returns from Spain asking for her share of the inheritance. What are they going to do about this interloper into their dangerous folie à deux? They don’t want to sell the house and in order to keep it they may have to determine who’s the rock, the paper and the scissors of their family, and who will win this sick, twisted psychological game…

Right from the get-go there are shades of Misery and Psycho to Rock, Paper and Scissors, both in terms of the subject matter and to a lesser extent the soundtrack – which at times echoes the twisted score of Bernard Herrmann,...

"There is no place like home." Dark Star Pictures has released the new US trailer for an Argentinian horror thriller titled Rock, Paper and Scissors, originally the same in Spanish, Piedra, Papel y Tijera. This initially premiered in 2019 at FrightFest in London and the Morbido Film Fest in Mexico. Jesus and Maria José are siblings living in the house of their recently deceased father. Their usual routine is interrupted by the arrival of Magdalena, their paternal half-sister. After many years without being with her other siblings, she comes from Spain to claim her share of the house inherited from their father. However, these siblings, who do not want to sell it, start playing wicked games with her, in which it is difficult to distinguish who has the stone, who has the paper and who has the scissors. This stars Agustina Cerviño, Valeria Giorcelli, Pablo Sigal. Looks like another unsettling, creepy...

Above: Light in the TropicsOne moment in Paula Gaitán’s seventh feature, Light in the Tropics, which premiered in Berlin in the Forum section, contains a visual key to the entire work. It’s an inverted image of the vast landmass, created by the camera obscura. Gaitán’s ambitious project draws not so much on literal parallels as loose continuities between the environs of contemporary New York and the Hudson Valley and Brazil’s Mato Grosso, including Pantanal, and up the Xingu River, into the Amazon. That continuity between two vastly distant locations is established mostly through the experiences of the areas’ indigenous communities. It’s also a connection that envisions a symbolic line leading from today’s artists—particularly a young sculptor featured in the New York part—to the expedition by the Russo-Prussian doctor, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, and his artsy stragglers, into the Amazon, in 1824. The varied group included the Swiss-French inventor,...

The 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20 – March 1) unveiled its Encounters program today, featuring the premieres of new works by Tim Sutton and Romanian director Cristi Puiu.

Also screening is Josephine Decker’s Shirley with Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg, marking the film’s international premiere after its upcoming Sundance bow, and Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky, whose last pic was the 2018 Venice doc Aquarela.

Encounters is a newly-created competitive section at the Berlin festival that looks to highlight “new voices in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms.” A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award.

“As a result of passionate research, the 15 titles chosen for Encounters present the vitality of cinema in all of its forms. Each film presents a different way of interpreting the cinematic story: autobiographical, intimate, political,...

Stars: Pablo Sigal, Agustina Cerviño, Valeria Giorcelli | Written and Directed by Martín Blousson, Macarena García Lenzi

Jesus and Maria José live together in the grand house that belonged to their recently deceased father. Their playful routine is disrupted when Magdalena, their half sister on their dad’s side, returns from Spain asking for her share of the inheritance. What are they going to do about this interloper into their dangerous folie à deux? They don’t want to sell the house and in order to keep it they may have to determine who’s the rock, the paper and the scissors of their family, and who will win this sick, twisted psychological game…

Right from the get-go there are shades of Misery and Psycho to Rock, Paper and Scissors, both in terms of the subject matter and to a lesser extent the soundtrack – which at times echoes the twisted score of Bernard Herrmann,...

Well over a year ago, Vadim Rizov visited the set of Argentinian director Matías Piñeiro’s latest, Hermia & Helena, now premiering in competition in Locarno. He noted that Piñeiro’s first three features have all "started from a Shakespearean source text: As You Like It for Rosalinda, Twelfth Night for Viola, Love’s Labour’s Lost in The Princess of France." The key text this time around is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Not only has Piñeiro set much of the film in New York for the first time, he's added a slew of newcomers to his cast of regulars: Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Pablo Sigal, Kyle Molzan, Ryan Miyake, Oscar Williams, Mati Diop, Julian Larquier, Keith Poulson, Dan Sallitt, Laura Paredes, Dustin Guy Defa, Gabi Saidón and Romina Paula. We're collecting reviews and interviews. » - David Hudson...

Well over a year ago, Vadim Rizov visited the set of Argentinian director Matías Piñeiro’s latest, Hermia & Helena, now premiering in competition in Locarno. He noted that Piñeiro’s first three features have all "started from a Shakespearean source text: As You Like It for Rosalinda, Twelfth Night for Viola, Love’s Labour’s Lost in The Princess of France." The key text this time around is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Not only has Piñeiro set much of the film in New York for the first time, he's added a slew of newcomers to his cast of regulars: Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Pablo Sigal, Kyle Molzan, Ryan Miyake, Oscar Williams, Mati Diop, Julian Larquier, Keith Poulson, Dan Sallitt, Laura Paredes, Dustin Guy Defa, Gabi Saidón and Romina Paula. We're collecting reviews and interviews. » - David Hudson...

Director: Diego Lerman Writers: Diego Lerman, Maria Meira Starring: Julieta Zylberberg, Osmar Nuñez, Marta Lubos, Gaby Ferrero, Diego Veggezzi, Pablo Sigal Much of 20th century Latin American history is marred by viscous dictators who actively sought to repress any and all opposed to their regimes. The history of Argentina is no exception to this. The period between 1976 and 1983 is known as the Dirty War in Argentina when thousands of students, unionists, activists, journalists and anyone who sympathized with left-wing politics were “disappeared” by the military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla and his ruthless entourage. This period of intense repression is artistically manifested in much of the art of Argentina from the latter part of the 20th century on. Diego Lerman’s allegorical film, La mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye), is set in a Buenos Aires high school in 1982. The world of the school starkly contrasts the world beyond its courtyard walls...