"El Tríptico de Mondongo" by Mariano Llinás will be shown at the ARCA Festival

The 4th edition of the International Festival of Films about Art is taking place at the Atchugarry Museum in Manantiales, Maldonado. The same also features feature films and short films from Uruguay, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, the United States, Brazil, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Peru. The closing recital will be by the duo Hugo Fattoruso and Albana Barrocas.
The artist and sculptor from Montevideo, Pablo Atchugarry, is at 70 years old possibly one of the most internationally outstanding figures in Uruguayan art. In 2007 he started the Foundation that bears his name on a few hectares located on Route 104, Km 4.5, in the Manantiales area of the Department of Maldonado in Uruguay. (About 21 km from Punta del Este). And 3 years ago – in January 2022 – he inaugurated the MACA: Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art, the impressive construction created by the architect – also born in Montevideo – Carlos Ott. And in parallel with this launch, the sculptor (who divides the days of the year between the Foundation's headquarters in Maldonado and his house in Lecco, in the far north of Italy), joined forces with the producer and filmmaker Mercedes Sader as Artistic Director, the directors and producers Sebastián Bednarik and Andrés Varela as Executive Directors and the programmer Sergio Font; to create and found the ARCA, International Festival of Films about Art. In its first three editions it was held in January and this year it was moved to the end of February and beginning of March. Always with free admission and with exhibitions mainly in the MACA Cinema Room and in the Hall on the First Floor, where in addition to the Closing film, there will be a bossa recital beforehand by the HA Dúo (Fattoruso-Barrocas).

The first two days of the festival featured the pre-premiere of the documentary Río Adentro (Uruguay, 2025) by Pablo Martínez Pessi, who spoke with the audience after the screening. This was followed by Balomania (Denmark-Spain, 2024), another documentary directed by the Danish woman based in Brazil, Sissel Morrell Dargis, who secretly filmed these marginal groups who make the giant colored paper balloons fly. In turn, the director Cecilia Moreira Pagés presented her short film Carlota (Uruguay, 2025). Then, Ajuste de pierdes (Mexico-Uruguay, 2024) was shown, directed by Miguel Calderón and presented by his Uruguayan producer, Agustina Chiarino and the editor Guillermo Madeiro, about this hybrid documentary, a mix of travel, adventure, emotions, tragedies and a theatrical production. The film Pax In Lucem (Uruguay, 2024) directed and shown by Emiliano Mazza De Luca, about the discovery of three large fragments of the mural Pax In Lucem, one of the iconic works of the distinguished Uruguayan painter, sculptor and theorist Joaquín Torres-García, closed on Saturday. This testimony is exhibited in the Main Hall of the MACA.

Sunday begins with the exhibition of the short film Guitarrista Rayado (Uruguay, 2025) with a presentation by its director Georgina Giribaldi. And the most notable - especially for Argentines - will be the exhibition in a Special Premiere Function in Uruguay of El Tríptico de Mondongo by the Buenos Aires director, producer and screenwriter Mariano Llinás. Since he is currently in New York City, this kind of trilogy

will be offered with an introduction by the graduate in History and Art Criticism, the Mendoza-born Mariela Cartellone. The three parts (which have a total duration of 283 minutes) will be shown continuously.
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