
It’s still summer and the nights in Buenos Aires are getting a little cooler. So why stay indoors when you can be outdoors. There are plenty of fantastic terraces to have a drink, and secret gardens in the city to enjoy. But nothing compares to watching movies under the stars, when you have these outdoor cinema options …
1. Outdoor cinema in Buenos Aires: La Casa del Bicentenario (The Bicentennial House)
On Saturdays and Sundays in February at 8 pm, the Casa del Bicentenario in Buenos Aires offers an outdoor cinema season with the most renowned Argentine films of the last years. Argentine documentaries and fictions in the open air, under the stars.
The screenings take place in the large courtyard of the Casa and are attended by the directors, directors and protagonists. And the best part: it is not suspended due to bad weather or rain.
PROGRAM
Saturday, February 1: Once upon a time there was a magician (2025) Documentary film
Director: María Salomé Jury, Oscar Frenkel
This documentary reflects the last years of Leonardo Favio, captured through the eyes of his daughter.
Sunday, February 2: The Agronomist (2024)
Directed by: Martín Turnes
Gastón is an agronomist engineer who works as a crop consultant. His wife and daughter adapt to the town where they all move to live little by little and everything seems to be going well until a friend of his daughter starts to suffer health problems due to agrochemicals from Gastón’s company.
Saturday, February 8: After A Good Day (2024)
Director: Néstor Frenkel
A documentary about pleasures everything that came after Un Buen Día, a film that went from being an absolute flop to becoming a cult work.
👉Sunday, February 9: Dead Man (2024)
Written and directed by Andrés Tambornino, Alejandro Gruz.
A small mining town lost among mountains, receives the arrival of an outsider, who offers to pay whoever wants to kill the owner of the mine.
Saturday, February 15: Las corredoras ( 2024)
Directed by: Néstor Montalbano
In 1959, Mabel travels to the countryside for work and meets a woman motorist with whom she experiences situations that forever change the course of her life.
👉Sunday, February 16: The Dance of Impact (2024)
Director: Camila Toker
An experimental filmmaker reconstructs the death of her mother in a train accident, using representation as a way to reach the intangible.
Saturday, February 22: The Strongest Man in the World (2023)
Written and directed by: Fernando Arditi
Dario Villarroel is 1.24 meters tall and is the strongest man in the world and seeks to re-emerge as a bodybuilder.
Casa del Bicentenario📍Riobamba 985
2. Cinema in Palermo’s terraces
The Cinema Company organizes outdoor cinema seasons in different bars and terraces in Palermo, San Isidro and San Fernando. Its cycles run from Tuesday to Friday and you can find films of all kinds of genres and decades, but always very well chosen. The cycles usually include between two or four films.
This summer, some of the films you can see are La Habitación de al Lado, El Hombre Elefante, El Cadaver de la Novia or Coraline. Tickets can be purchased at the outdoor movie venue of your choice or at www.cineclubcompany.com.
📍Club Austria – Roque Sáenz Peña 1138. San Isidro
📍La Chopperia – Palermo – El Salvador 4804. Palermo
📍Diggs – Palermo – Plaza Serrano, Serrano 1580.
3. Open air cinema in beer halls and Soho Market.
Temple, Casa Temple and Post Street Bar are bars and breweries in Palermo and Recoleta that also have outdoor cinema seasons this summer so that you can enjoy the hot afternoons with a cold beer and a good movie.
If you like the Soho Market, they also organize summer film seasons there. What movies can you see outdoors in Buenos Aires? Amelie, When Harri Met Sally, The Shining, Notting Hill or The Truman Show.
Post Street Bar 📍Thames 1885
Temple 📍 Junín 1725
CABA Cervecería 📍 Jorge Luis Borges 1660
Casa Temple 📍 Costa Rica 4677
Soho Market 📍 Armenia 1744 2nd floor
4. Terrace of the C Art Media Center in Chacarita
The C Art Media Center is the epicenter of concerts, fairs and important events in Chacarita and this summer it is also the epicenter of open-air cinema cycles. Here the screenings are on Tuesdays at 8pm. Tickets are on sale at the Passline website and at the box office.
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