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Gaucho Gaucho (2025)

Gaucho Gaucho poster
Directed by
Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck
Genre
documentary film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
16
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This black-and-white documentary follows gauchos in the dry cattle country of northwestern Argentina. It shows their daily work and traditions as their way of life faces threats from lack of water.

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What happens

Gaucho Gaucho is a 2024 is a black-and-white documentary film directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw. The film, set in the lack of water-threatened northwestern cattle country of Argentina, captures the lives of gauchos. It premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for Sound. The documentary received an outdoor screening in August 2024 on the Piazza Grande of the 77th Locarno Film Festival and won the first Letterboxd Piazza Grande Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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