Taekwondo

Taekwondo (2016) is an Argentine drama from Marco Berger and Martín Farina that you can watch online on iFILM. Germán gets an invitation from Fernando, a guy he knows from training, to spend the summer break at a country house outside Buenos Aires with a tight, all-male group of friends.

The days drift by — pool, sun, beer, weed, lazy talk that circles around everything and nothing. The camera lingers on tanned bodies, and under all that ease a quiet tension keeps building. Germán watches Fernando, unsure whether the pull goes both ways, while the group hovers between rough horseplay and something none of them will say out loud.

Berger returns to the subject he knows best: desire that exists before anyone names it or acts on it. With almost no plot, built from glances, pauses and small awkward silences, the film leaves you suspended in the same uncertainty as its characters. One for fans of slow, sensual auteur cinema rather than big twists. Stream Taekwondo (2016) online on iFILM.