Homo Argentum

'[FILM'] is an Argentinian film directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat with a duration of 98 minutes that proposes an ironic, uncomfortable, and fully critical examination of contemporary society through an episodic structure.

Throughout various seemingly independent stories, the film portrays behaviors, obsessions, and contradictions of the modern individual, focusing on the social, economic, and moral dynamics that define the “Argentine man” as both a symbolic and universal figure.

Each episode saturates the comedy, functioning as a distorting mirror of reality, in which the characters face everyday situations taken to the extreme: professional success, economic ambition, social hypocrisy, the cult of image, political correctness, and the constant need for validation.

Through a dry, provocative, biting, and uncomfortable humor, combined with a sober staging and a satirical tone, Homo Argentum exposes the small human miseries and reveals how ego, money, and status condition personal relationships and individual identity. The film presents human, vulnerable, and contradictory characters, whose decisions reveal a fragile and contradictory ethics.

The film invites reflection on the values that govern contemporary life and on the price paid to adapt to the demands of the system.

• Comedy