42nd Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 16–27, 2026 | Landmark Century Center, Chicago
If you’ve ever spent time with an Argentine man — at a dinner table, on a fútbol pitch, or simply waiting for him to finish making his point — you already know there is something magnificently, unmistakably particular about the species. For everyone else, Homo Argentum is here to explain everything.
Directed by the wickedly sharp tandem of Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn — the Argentine filmmakers behind Official Competition and the acclaimed El Ciudadano Ilustre — this 2025 satirical anthology comedy is built around one of Argentina’s most beloved performers, Guillermo Francella. A comic actor of remarkable precision and range, Francella essentially becomes a one-man laboratory study in Argentine masculinity. Through 16 sharply drawn vignettes, he inhabits the Argentine male in all his contradictory, endearing, infuriating, and thoroughly human complexity.
This is not a gentle portrait. Duprat and Cohn, who have never been afraid to press on a cultural bruise, draw openly from the great Italian comedy anthologies of the 1960s and ’70s — the tradition of I Mostri and Alberto Sordi — and apply that same merciless social microscope to the Rio de la Plata. The result is a film that feels like a roast, a confession, and a cultural reckoning rolled into one. Argentine audiences recognized themselves immediately — and packed theaters in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Santiago to prove it.
But here is the thing: you don’t need to be Argentine to get it.
Anyone who has navigated the theater of Latin masculine identity — the elaborate rituals of pride, the performative expertise on every subject, the fragile dignity maintained at all costs, the genuine warmth hiding just behind the posturing — will find deeply familiar territory here. Homo Argentum uses comedy the way the best satire always does: as a mirror. It laughs at the Argentine man, yes, but with the kind of intimacy that only real affection makes possible.
For North American audiences at the 42nd Chicago Latino Film Festival, this is a rare big-screen opportunity to catch one of Latin America’s most commercially successful and culturally charged films of 2025 — a film that screened at the Rome Film Festival, landed on Argentina’s Oscar shortlist, and ignited a national debate that spilled from cinemas onto front pages. That last part alone tells you something about the nerve it struck.
Funny, observational, and disarmingly human, Homo Argentum is the kind of film that starts conversations — and probably a few good-natured arguments — the moment the credits roll. Come for the laughs. Stay for the self-recognition.
You can watch this film during the festival:
Get Tickets for First Screening – April 24th (FRIDAY) – https://clff42.eventive.org/schedule/69a17f07aae2f7cc89f9274f
Get Tickets for Second Screening – April 25th (SAT) – https://clff42.eventive.org/schedule/69a17f07aae2f7cc89f92754
Homo Argentum screens as part of the 42nd Chicago Latino Film Festival, running April 16–27, 2026, at the Landmark Century Center, Chicago. For showtimes and tickets, visit chicagolatinofilmfestival.org.