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Resistance does not always mean confrontation. Sometimes it means staying. Other times, it means leaving. Remembering, returning, searching for an origin, maintaining a bond, occupying a place, or finding one’s own way of telling one’s story. This year, the nine feature films in competition bring us closer to characters who navigate cracks, boundaries, and tensions, seeking to sustain themselves, transform, or forge a path where reality seems to prevail.

A young Korean-Argentine woman seeks to find herself in a family history marked by migration and in the journey of a father who once had to start over, far from his homeland. A projectionist who loses his job finds refuge in the very movie theater threatened with closure and, alongside other resisters, tries to sustain a space that can still be a community. Two friends reunite after more than twenty-five years and discover that even deep bonds can withstand time, distance, and the different paths their lives have taken.

It resists what seems predetermined. A boy burdened by a destiny tied to family tradition dreams of taking a train, exploring Buenos Aires, and imagining other possible worlds. For him, resistance means daring to leave. And another young adoptee embarks on a search for his biological family, attempting to reconstruct his own story from the traces, silences, and absences left by others before him.

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Resistance also confronts forces that transcend individual experience and leave their mark on bodies, territories, and memories. In the Malvinas Islands, two men affected in different ways by the 1982 war find themselves facing narratives constructed from opposing perspectives. Inside a prison, a cell phone manages to penetrate the walls and transforms images of everyday life into testimony, a connection, and an opportunity to tell one’s story from within confinement. Similarly, in the memory of an activist, the struggles, convictions, and defeats of a generation shaped by Peronist resistance and political projects that envisioned other possible ways to transform the world live on.

Some resist by staying; others, by escaping. Some need to reclaim a history, while others need to distance themselves from it. Resistance comes from bodies that challenge what is expected of them, from spaces threatened with disappearance, from friendships that span decades, from images that manage to break free from confinement, and from memories that refuse to remain permanently in the past.

Thus, the IX Raíces 2026 Festival brings together different forms of resistance—intimate and collective, silent and visible, emotional, political, familial, and utopian. Because resisting does not necessarily mean remaining intact. Sometimes it means exactly the opposite: changing, shifting, rebuilding oneself, and finding—even under adverse conditions—a way forward. Perhaps that is what these stories speak to in times of resistance.

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November 12th - 15th / Teatro el Chasqui - Chivilcoy

 

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