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FIBA 2023

FIBA, Buenos Aires International Festival, is back

24-02-2023 11:34 This year’s Buenos Aires International Festival is here, with artists from all over the country and the world. From Friday, February 24 to Sunday, March 5, experience the best of theatre, music, dance and visual art in venues across the city.

CARNAVAL 2023

A guide to Carnaval 2023 in Buenos Aires

06-02-2023 11:45 This year's carnival celebrations officially started last Saturday, February 4, but people across the country will keep the party alive every weekend until the upcoming national holidays on February 20 and 21; Buenos Aires' closing party will take place March 6 on Avenida de Mayo with a Fiesta Bresh DJ set and a performance from singer Karina La Princesita.

PERFORMING ARTS

Revive your spirit with cultural feast in Colonia del Sacramento

24-09-2022 06:00 The plague of Covid-19 has receded and Uruguay’s Festival Internacional de Colonia is returning for its fifth edition.

by Robert Cox

NEW NETFLIX DOC

'We must continue to remember this story,' say makers of new Cabezas documentary

12-05-2022 13:47 New documentary film exploring 1997 murder of José Luis Cabezas set to arrive on Netflix next week. Director Alejandro Hartmann and producer Vanessa Ragone discuss details of its production and its premiere at BAFICI.

by Ana Seoane

Film & Movies: LatinArab 2022

LatinArab Festival returns to Argentina, expands to Chile and Brazil

03-05-2022 16:16 After a two-year absence, the LatinArab Film Festival will return to Buenos Aires Tuesday night, opening with a screening of 'Gaza mon amour.'

by Hannah Gonzalez

Music & Culture

Mingus Centennial Festival to celebrate legendary US jazz musician

27-04-2022 18:04 The Mingus Centennial Festival, marking 100 years since Charles Mingus' birth, takes place this Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30, 2022 at the Centro Cultural 25 de Mayo.

by Hannah Gonzalez

FILM & MOVIES: BAFICI 2022

23rd BAFICI film festival opens in Buenos Aires to a full house

23-04-2022 00:02 Prestigious film festival runs from April 19 to May 1, with over 450 in-person events and screenings to catch your eye.

by Hannah Gonzalez

FILM & CINEMA

Spanish film explores trauma of 2015 Bataclan massacre

15-02-2022 14:18 Argentine actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and French actress Noémie Merlant star in 'One Year, One Night,' as a young couple who survive the Bataclan concert hall attack but struggle to piece their lives back together in the aftermath.

International Tango Festival

Local couples win top tango competition after Maradona tributes

26-09-2021 09:26 With main event hit by Covid-19 pandemic, competition's finals were staged in front of Buenos Aires' famed illuminated Obelisk.

FILM

Sorrentino taps Naples boyhood, Maradona in latest film at Venice

02-09-2021 15:44 Italian director Paolo Sorrentino presents new semi-autobiographical film at Venice, recalling Diego Maradona and a heartbreaking story about growing up in 1980s Naples.