The Milei administration shut down Argentina’s National Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) on Monday. Three days into one of the country’s main film festivals, staff were sent on temporary leave while the institution, which funds and supports local film production, goes through an internal reorganization.

The decision halts the activities of every institution run by the INCAA, including the emblematic Gaumont Cinema on Buenos Aires’s Congress Square. Since 2003, it has screened Argentine films for a nominal fee currently equivalent to around 40 dollar cents. For now, the Gaumont will only screen films that are part of the ongoing Buenos........

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