A stunningly captured celebration of a community of Argentine cowboys and cowgirls—known as Gauchos—living beyond the boundaries of the modern world. Sundance 2024 Special Jury Prize for Sound.
Gaucho Gaucho paints an Argentinian Western with image and sound that reach an operatic beauty. Acclaimed photographers and now three-time Sundance-fêted filmmakers Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck (The Truffle Hunters, The Last Race) return to the screen, this time focusing on the vast mountains of Argentina, expressed in stunning black-and-white photography, and a small community of gauchos who hold profound connections to the surrounding nature and their own traditions. As older generations dispense their wisdom, the film keeps its eye toward a new generation who continue to fight for their families’ legacy in a modern world. [85 min; documentary; Spanish with English subtitles]
“These filmmakers have enormous reserves of love and empathy for traditions that miraculously survive in spite of the modern world. And their compassion has never looked more cinematic.” — Tomris Laffly, Harper’s Bazaar
"Gaucho Gaucho is exquisitely crafted, with sumptuous black-and-white cinematography, camera angles framed askew, and eye-catching slo-mo sequences. Not to mention an operatic—at times literally—score." — Lauren Wissot, IndieWire
"For 84 luminous minutes, Dweck and Kershaw have offered us a rare and valuable window into a proud culture for whom traditions are sacred and community is everything." — Tom O'Brien, Next Best Picture
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