The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema

[4][5] The 2022 list generated debate regarding the need for a national Cinematheque (a longtime demand of the local film community), since the difficult or non-existent access to many works from the past, like the classical era of Argentine cinema, greatly affected the result.

[1] In the editorial accompanying the list, they stated: "When members of our magazines found out about their existence, almost simultaneously and through different channels, we immediately thought it would be a good idea to carry out a new version of the survey.

[2] Various critics, journalists, researchers, historians, programmers, collectors, directors, screenwriters, producers, actors, cinematographers, editors and sound engineers, among other film-related jobs, participated in the 2022 survey.

[4] The results of the Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 (English: "2022 Survey of Argentine cinema") were presented at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival on 11 November 2022.

[7][8] During the presentation of the list, Paula Félix-Didier, director of the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, declared that the "survey has the specific and explicit idea of developing a canon of Argentine cinema and serves to discuss, open doors and draw attention about some things.

In the 2022 list, Leonardo Favio was the director with the greatest presence among the top 100 films, with eight titles. [ 1 ]
Prisioneros de la tierra (1939) by Mario Soffici was chosen as the best Argentine film of all time in the 1977 and 1984 polls.
Crónica de un niño solo (1965) by Leonardo Favio was chosen as the best Argentine film of all time in the 2000 survey.
In the 2022 list, La Ciénaga (2001) by Lucrecia Martel (pictured) was the most voted film by a wide margin, and all her films appear in the Top 100. [ 5 ]