What to Do During the Week & the Weekend in Buenos Aires

Until this Wednesday, here’s the perfect excuse to enjoy the big-screen experience: it’s La Fiesta del Cine, a week when tickets cost $4,000 for both 2D and 3D screenings.

There are also special popcorn combo deals so you can enjoy timeless classics like “Casablanca,” “Gone with the Wind,”and “Notting Hill,” iconic romances such as “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset,” and more recent blockbusters like “Barbie” and “Lilo & Stitch.” If you’re looking for new releases, this week brings “Deliver Us from Evil” and “Is This Working?” There’s horror, drama, animation, romance, and even Argentine cinema with “Homo Argentum.”

Tip: you can check the full lineup of films at this price in this link.

Where: in theaters across the country.

Starting this Wednesday through Sunday, the agenda offers another big-screen option: the 2nd edition of FIDiG Cine in Buenos Aires, a space that highlights experiences, identities, and bodies that don’t always find room in commercial circuits.

This new edition will feature international and national premieres, short film competitions, and special screenings focused on gender, diversity, and queer narratives, spread across venues such as Centro Cultural de la Cooperación and Cinépolis Plaza Houssay. The event goes beyond film—it’s also a meeting point for talks, debates, and activities with creators, activists, and audiences eager to see the world from different perspectives.

Tip: full program and tickets are available here.

Where: Cinépolis Plaza Houssay, Av. Córdoba 2135; Centro Cultural de la Cooperación Floreal Gorini, Av. Corrientes 1543; and the Auditorium of the Embassy of Brazil in Argentina, Cerrito 1350, Buenos Aires.

A rehearsal room, a company working on texts by William Shakespeare, and a director who pushes everything to the limit. That’s how “On the Edge of Rehearsal” begins, the new play written and directed by Guido Inaui Vega, now on the Buenos Aires theater bill with performances this Thursday and March 5 at 10:30 pm at Teatro El Extranjero.

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Featuring a razor-sharp cast—Rosario Ramos Isola, Agustín Belloli, Belén Vaioli, and Inaui Vega himself—the audience is drawn into a space where the creative process stops being comfortable and starts to burn. Between scenes, exercises, and escalating tensions, the boundaries between learning and abuse, mentor and tyrant, begin to blur.

Tip: tickets are available here.

Where: Valentín Gómez 3378.

Former Olympic swimmer Delfina Pignatiello returns to the water—but from behind the camera. This Thursday she presents “Ninfas,” her first solo exhibition at Galería PHUYU, a series of underwater photographs brimming with visual and emotional power. The images portray synchronized swimmers floating in an almost dreamlike choreography, where bodies intertwine and femininity becomes collective strength.

The project—awarded Second Prize at the Latin America Youth Award in “Walk of Water 2025”—also stands out for its technique: shots taken in a single breath, without an oxygen tank, with underwater choreographic precision that elevates each image. With an all-female team and a perspective shaped by her own high-performance sports background, Pignatiello turns water into symbolic territory.

Tip: more info at info@galeria-phuyu.com or via WhatsApp at +54 9 11 5929 8277.

Where: Esmeralda 988.

A different kind of tasting—where wine isn’t just sipped, it’s written. Discovering the Bodies offers an intimate experience blending tasting and writing to explore eroticism from a creative, thoughtful, and cliché-free perspective. This Friday, over three hours, a fresh rosé, a light red, an unexpected variety, and a final sparkling wine will set the rhythm of the evening, accompanied by small bites designed to awaken the senses and let go of preconceptions.

Led by sommelier and journalist Mariana Gil Juncal and writer Manu Ruffa, the experience invites participants to ask what eroticism is, where fantasies reside, and how desire and literature interact. No prior knowledge of wine or writing is required—just a willingness to engage the senses and let the words flow.

Tip: tickets cost $35,000 and are available on Passline.

Where: Mapa del Vino Wine Spot, Floresta (exact location shared upon reservation).

Centro Cultural Recoleta continues energizing Buenos Aires’ cultural scene with a music program that blends diverse talents and vibrant proposals on its terrace. This Friday at 7:30 pm, singer-songwriter Delfina Campos will perform, moving between art-pop, folk, and pop with lyrics that explore love, sensation, and personal transformation.

Campos arrives at this emblematic venue with a repertoire that reflects her rising career and her close connection with live audiences—already seen in previous editions of the Recoleta cycle—creating an intimate and enveloping atmosphere under the city sky.

Tip: free admission, first come, first served until capacity is reached. Cancelled in case of rain.

Where: Junín 1930.

As part of the Chinese New Year celebrations and the arrival of the Year of the Fire Horse, the tea house Kinzen joins Buenos Aires festivities with a program blending art, tradition, and well-being. While the city fills with red decorations and celebrations, this cultural space offers a more introspective journey, connecting with ancient rituals that accompany the fifteen days of the lunar calendar.

The grand finale will be this Saturday at 5:30 pm with the Lantern Festival (Yuanxiao Jie), marking the official end of the lunar cycle. There will be a symbolic lantern lighting to attract prosperity, the traditional Riddle Challenge (Caidengmi), and a tasting of Tangyuan, glutinous rice balls symbolizing family unity and harmony.

Tip: reserve your spot via WhatsApp at +54 9 11 2526-4365.

Where: Migueletes 1857.

“I Dreamed I Was Someone Else”, the new play written and directed by Miguel Sorrentino and inspired by “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, premieres this Saturday and runs every Saturday at 8:30 pm at El Método Kairós. The story follows Gretel, an 18-year-old actress and model who wakes up transformed into an adult man. What could be a purely fantastical event becomes a trigger: her family denies, rejects, or fails to recognize her; the outside world carries on as if nothing happened; and she, isolated, tries to understand what truly changed—her body, her identity, or the gaze of others.

With dark humor and a discomfort that cuts deep, the production explores the friction between the everyday and the absurd to address gender expectations, desire, and appearances. More than an adaptation, it’s a contemporary reinterpretation that turns metamorphosis into a political question: who are we—and who are we expected to be?

Tip: tickets cost $22,000 and are available at Alternativa Teatral or at the box office.

Where: El Salvador 4530.

This Saturday, Buenos Aires’ sky has its own plan: the 2026 Planetarium Festival arrives at the Planetario Galileo Galilei for a day where science and art intersect freely. Starting at 1 pm, the hall and esplanade will host immersive universe-themed screenings, an interactive dome installation, and live music blending tango and mathematics in an unexpected yet hypnotic combination.

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There will also be a keynote talk by Diego Golombek and telescope observations (weather permitting) to close out the summer by stargazing from a new perspective. Some activities are free, while immersive screenings require tickets, with limited capacity.

Tip: check the full program here. Some activities are free (with limited capacity), others are ticketed.

Where: Av. Sarmiento s/n.

Usina del Arte wraps up its Summer Culture program with a night promising a full sensory experience. This Saturday from 8 to 11 pm, the Main Hall becomes the stage for “Live Sculpture & Music: Matter Transforms”, an immersive performance where visual and sonic elements interact in real time. As Tadeo Jones creates a sculpture in situ, Lucas Espina and Poly Pérez perform live, shaping a powerful dialogue between matter and sound unfolding before the audience.

Alongside this special closing event, Usina continues its regular programming for families and friends: the Ludo-Space, visual arts workshops, and guided tours exploring the building and its history on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays in the afternoon, as well as Sundays at various times.

Tip: free admission.

Where: Agustín R. Caffarena 1.