Agustín Mendilaharzu

The Practice (2024)

Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. ...

The Miu Miu Affaire (2024)

Nothing went as planned: what seemed to be an original idea (taking an international fashion event to a small town in the Argentine Pampas) ended up as a mysterious affair, with a mannequin who seems to have vanished, and who insists on leaving small clues ...

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe (2024)

A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours. Work inspired by the book "Kunst der Farbe" by Johannes Itten. ...

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker (2024)

Situation 1: Mondongo, a duo of Argentinian artists, create a work inspired by The Art of colors, a treatise by Johannes Itten. Situation 2: A filmmaker begins a portrait of them. ...

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo (2024)

"This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn't meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait. ...

Mine Will Be Another Flesh. In Search of C.E. Feiling (2023)

Like a pair of wild detectives, two friends sniff around the library of eccentric writer and critic C.E. Feiling in search of the traces of a cult author, a punk dandy who swam against the current of Argentine literature. ...

Un Andantino (2023)

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by ...

Clorindo Testa (2022)

Is this film about Clorindo Testa or not? Is it about the life of the director, about the life of his father, about the life of his country, or is it just one of those biographical films that proliferate at film festivals in which the narrator spends his t ...

If it Please the Court (2022)

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky's film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina's El pan y la sal (The Bread and the Salt), a 2015 verbatim theatre piece compiled from the testimonies provided during the 2012 trial o ...

Clementina (2022)

Everyone is locked up, but Clementina and the man she's quarantined with won't stop working. We know little about him, and even less about her: we just see over and over again her mysterious face, which seems to defy everything. ...

The Middle Ages (2022)

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes. ...

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel (2021)

On 9 July – Argentina's Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record 'Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel', an album made in 1929 by lyricist Hector Pedro Blomberg and composer Enr ...

Concert for the Battle of El Tala (2021)

This is a film with music. Or about the music and texts that accompany, in a poetic way, a decisive battle between Unitarian and Federalists. The vicissitudes of the birth of a nation based on the play written by Mariano Llinás and Gabriel Chwojnik, whose ...

The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi (2019)

A poet dies and another one, younger, feels an obligation to promote her work. She is joined by a team of women filmmakers. The film begins with this unusual triangle but, interestingly, it grows into something more complex and subtle than a traditional re ...

Familia (2019)

Every year for the holidays, a lonely man visits his night owl family, who only occasionally leaves home. After his debut with La noche, Edgardo Castro returns with a film that finds genuine moments of cinema in the confinement, the silence and the apparen ...

La Flor (2019)

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes… ...

Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires (2018)

The documentary registers with detail this first visit to Argentina. It's a meditation on the artistic and conceptual processes that Ai Weiwei needs to think of his art. The images dialogue between the director and his instagram, revealing an intimate side ...

The Little Match Girl (2017)

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to ...

Santiago's Theorem (2016)

In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel du ce ...

The Gold Bug (2014)

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, gr ...

Ostende (2011)

Waiting alone for her boyfriend at a hotel, a woman starts paying attention to the mysterious behavior of some guests. ...

Los crímenes (2011)

A policeman relates an old case. A young widow, an insomniac businessman, a horse forgotten in a stable. The city as the scene of a trap. ...

Ocio (2010)

Tekton (2009)

Three decades later, the San Juan Civic Center construction project is back on track and, as if nothing had happened, the bureaucratic machinery seems to be united with the cranes and the human force and the megalomaniac desire that such an undertaking sup ...

Pablo Dacal y el misterio del Lago Rosario (2008)

A monolith is the excuse for a journey to an obsession full of charms and, like every dream, also some disappointment. ...

Opus (2005)

In July 2002, an American Producer comissions director Mariano Donoso a documentary on the state of Education in San Juan, the province where he was born. On the first day of filming, a teachers' strike begins, paralyzing classes in the whole province, and ...

Alabanza a la papa (2004)

What do Eva Perón, Víctor Grippo, an American tourist and the Catamaran poet Arturo Basanta have in common? That all of them once passed through the Traslasierra valley and were also victims of the tuber that has obsessed with the inhabitants of Villa Do ...

Balnearios (2002)

An album of odd and humorous stories on small places exclusively dedicated to idleness, which are empty in winter and crowded in summer: the spa towns. Cities under water, luxury hotels, mermaids, sea animals, sand castles, people who worship water, prayin ...

Popular tradición de esta tierra (2024)

The second installment of the adventures of the Corsini Commando takes us this time to the Pampas plain, where Corsini grew up and forged a vision of the world that would accompany him throughout his life. The result of this excursion is an erratic wanderi ...

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker (2024)

Situation 1: Mondongo, a duo of Argentinian artists, create a work inspired by The Art of colors, a treatise by Johannes Itten. Situation 2: A filmmaker begins a portrait of them. ...

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo (2024)

"This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn't meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait. ...

Mine Will Be Another Flesh. In Search of C.E. Feiling (2023)

Like a pair of wild detectives, two friends sniff around the library of eccentric writer and critic C.E. Feiling in search of the traces of a cult author, a punk dandy who swam against the current of Argentine literature. ...

Clorindo Testa (2022)

Is this film about Clorindo Testa or not? Is it about the life of the director, about the life of his father, about the life of his country, or is it just one of those biographical films that proliferate at film festivals in which the narrator spends his t ...

Clementina (2022)

Everyone is locked up, but Clementina and the man she's quarantined with won't stop working. We know little about him, and even less about her: we just see over and over again her mysterious face, which seems to defy everything. ...

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel (2021)

On 9 July – Argentina's Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record 'Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel', an album made in 1929 by lyricist Hector Pedro Blomberg and composer Enr ...

Two Shots Fired (2014)

Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a ...

Fatherland (2011)

Fatherland brings a rigorous structural approach to a site of monuments that is also a place of movement, criss-crossed daily by tourists and locals. The grounds are laid out like city blocks, with wide avenues branching onto laneways filled with elaborate ...

Extraordinary Stories (2008)

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore. ...

Love (Part One) (2005)

The story of a young couple, from beginning to end, from the euphoria of falling in love until the final days blurred and dark, is realized with an analytical eye and investigative zeal. How and why two people fall in love? What now? How quickly will they ...

Derecho viejo (1998)

The story of some neighborhood boys, narrated with an undoubted Borgian spirit. (ucine.edu. ...