Argentina had the first film industry in Latin America and lost it for a specific reason: it stayed neutral in the war, Washington sent the raw film stock to Mexico instead, and Buenos Aires never recovered the lead. What it has had since is a state institute, a film-school culture and roughly one generation every twenty years — the political films that followed the dictatorship, the Nuevo Cine Argentino of the late nineties, and a genre scene now good enough to export horror on its own. Two Argentine films have won the foreign-language Oscar, which is more than any other country in the region.