Alejandro Awada

A Silent Death (2025)

Octavio, a hunting guide from southern Argentina, desperately fights to clarify the death of his niece Sofía, discovered shot in the hunting preserve where he works. The shot bursts into the darkness, unleashing an enigma that shakes the entire town. Octa ...

Transmitzvah (2024)

After embracing her female identity, Rubén rejects her Bar Mitzvah. When tragedy strikes years later, she returns as Mumy Singer to celebrate it her way. ...

Norma (2023)

A woman finds new meaning in her life after her housekeeper quits her job. ...

The Paradise (2022)

Rosario, 1926. Magdalena and Anna Scilko, along with a group of women from the old continent, arrive to the city with the hope of a better future, escaping the post-war period. But nothing will turn out as they had imagined. When they get off the ship they ...

Sangre blanca (2018)

Martina and Manuel cross the border from Bolivia as «mules». Manuel dies with the cocaine capsules inside his body. Martina turns to her father, who she never met before, for help. ...

Severina (2017)

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts li ...

The Bar (2017)

In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar. ...

Amateur (2016)

Martin is a lonely television director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor Isabel when he finds an amateur porn video in which she participates. However Isabel turns out to be the wife of the owner of the TV network where he works. ...

El jugador (2016)

A retired gambler who works for a wealthy meat entrepreneur, travels to Mar del Plata where he must give a considerable sum of money to his boss's grandchildren. ...

Surviving the 70's (2015)

A disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book. ...

El almuerzo (2015)

On May 5, 1976, writer Haroldo Conti was kidnapped by the military dictatorship, which had taken over Argentina that same year. Two weeks later, the newly elected de facto president, Jorge Rafael Videla, invited several figures of national culture to a pri ...

Francis: Pray for Me (2015)

A look at the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, form his early childhood days in Argentina to his becoming Pope Francis. ...

Safe Passage (2015)

In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away f ...

El otro: no todo es lo que ves (2014)

Marcos is a 35-year-old cadet, cynical, unbelieving, passive and pessimistic, with a completely individualistic philosophy of life, who after being involved in a bank robbery meets a mysterious man who gives him a new lease on life. To get his life back, M ...

The Games Maker (2014)

Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save ...

CP 9409 (2014)

On March 24, 2004, Patricia, a teacher from Monte Grande, saw on television President Néstor Kirchner take down the portrait of Videla and other de facto presidents of the military dictatorship from the Military College. This image repeated itself in her ...

The Mystery of Happiness (2014)

Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio's wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journ ...

From Tuesday to Tuesday (2013)

Juan is a 35 year old man whose hobby is bodybuilding. He works in a factory, where despite its huge and muscled physique, is mistreated by his bosses and colleagues. His biggest dream is to leave that life gray and a better life, especially owning your ow ...

Cuando yo te vuelva a ver (2013)

Thirty years after living in Spain, Paco returns to Argentina to sponsor the wedding of a friend. Retired and separated from his Spanish wife, he is reunited with his affections. As always, in the last thirty years, Margarita, and retired as a teacher, lif ...

Samurai (2013)

A Japanese immigrant (Nicolas Nakayama) and a war veteran (Alejandro Awada) search for an exiled samurai in the mountains of Argentina. ...

Una mujer sucede (2012)

In an inland village, on a rainy night, the wake of a woman whose name is unknown takes place. There is only one mourner and two more men, attracted by destiny. During the night, like a game of cards, the identity of this woman who, according to them, once ...

The Vampire Spider (2012)

A teenager goes to the foothills of the Andes to deal with his phobias. ...

La cola (2012)

Gone Fishing (2012)

A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin. ...

Las voces (2012)

Shortly before dying, dying, Ema tells her granddaughter about her grandfather. This reawakens in Clara, the girl's mother, an interest in knowing something about her father, whom she never met. ...

Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela (2011)

In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden and silent violence of these policies spiraled and 30,000 citizens ...

Eva & Lola (2010)

Eva and Lola are close friends. While Eva tries to cope with her past creating a fantasy life, Lola does not want to handle with the truth of her real identity. Two friends with different views of the same story. ...

La Voz (2010)

Kluge (2010)

Kluge a psychological thriller, a suspense story, about a French journalist, Anne, who is preparing a research paper on Argentina by interviewing female professionals. Travel to Buenos Aires for a series of interviews and begins with Marisa Losada, an illu ...

Felicitas (2009)

Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets ...

The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2 (2008)

Eight year old Lucas would like to know how the Tooth Fairy exchanges coins for teeth without getting caught. He is determined to stay awake all night to find out. Meanwhile, a little mouse falls into a trap set by a dishonest contractor who is desperate t ...

Bye Bye Life (2008)

The movie depicts the last days of life of photographer Gabriela Liffschitz, who went into a coma the following day after the shooting and died two days later, on February 13, 2004, as a result of breast cancer. Liffschitz, who knew that he was affected by ...

El traductor (2007)

Salvador is a translator with a left-wing militant past who can see how his former colleagues surrendered to the rules of capitalism. He meets a young Adventist with whom he will live a love story. ...

Arizona sur (2007)

The Hairy Tooth Fairy (2006)

Lucía, an active little girl, looses a tooth. Santiago, her father, is an out-of-work boss, and her mother, Pilar, is a successful but overworked architect, reassure Lucía, by telling her that the Hairy Tooth Fairy (a mouse named Pérez) will come to her ...

The Aura (2005)

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. ...

The Die Is Cast (2005)

Felipe, an aspiring actor, believes he is jinxed after an unfortunate event. His struggle to find the cause and cure of his jinx. His half-brother is not doing much better, but among the two of them embark on a mission to change their lives and fulfill the ...

Whisky Romeo Zulú (2005)

Whisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in ...

Dangerous Obsession (2004)

An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the ...

El 48 (2004)

It was the Winning Project of the INCAA Contest on the crisis in 2002. Very black humor to tell a time that today evokes memory. ...

Ay, Juancito (2004)

A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his demise, in the times of Juan Domingo Perón. ...

No Escape (2003)

The spiritual journey of a man with a debt that cannot be paid. In a Korean supermarket not too important, a small embezzlement is discovered. Luciano, a young man who works there, is pressured by the Koreans to return the money he stole in less than twent ...

El día que me amen (2003)

Mental illness and the power of friendship. Mara and Joaquín were childhood friends, next-door neighbors. They are now in their early 30s. She's returned to Acassuno after eight years abroad, ostensibly to audition for a part in a musical. Joaquín has be ...

El Tigre escondido (2003)

Bernardo is fifty years old and feels overwhelmed, confused, almost devastated; surrounded by the violence typical of a society that is slowly collapsing. With relationship problems, difficulties in conceiving a child and a woman who cannot - and does not ...

Dibu 3 (2002)

Facing an imminent attack from Mars, planet Earth sends Dibu to Mars as a peace ambassador -- the only hope for averting the attack. Amazingly, he finds a friendly population, whose only issue is that they are fed up of their planet being used as a nuclear ...

Passionate People (2002)

Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend of her best friend Lucy, has all necessary features. So she asks her a favor: to lend her boyfriend once. In the middle of surprising situations, Uma convin ...

Tiger Head (2001)

In the aftermath of the May Revolution, which sparked the end of Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of the first independent government in Buenos Aires, revolutionary leader Juan José Castelli is given the order to oversee the execution of former ...

The Escape (2001)

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not t ...

Buenos Aires plateada (2000)

A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communi ...

Un amor de Borges (2000)

Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to his mother. They fall in love, or at least Borges does. ...

Nine Queens (2000)

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens". ...

El camino (2000)

Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to ...

Tesoro mío (2000)

Soon to turn 40, Carlos is a humble bank clerk who feels that his life is a monotonous waste of time. When Carlos begins to feel condemned forever to a life of quiet despair, he is presented with an opportunity to rip off a bank. ...

Acrobacias del Corazón (2000)

A film director is preparing her latest film. As filming progresses, the love story she shared with her ex-husband and the musician in the film resurfaces. ...

El visitante (1999)

Pedro, a Falklands veteran, cannot forget the days when he was in the trenches, nor can he forget Raúl, his best friend, who stayed forever in that desolate place of nightmares. ...

¿Dónde estaba Dios cuando te fuiste? (1999)

A crime and a voice that accuses. ...

Foolish Heart (1998)

Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a cl ...

El sueño de los héroes (1997)

24 horas (Algo está por explotar) (1997)

The crew of a 24-hour store live their life while dealing with a drug cartel ...

Cops (1997)

Two men from completely different backgrounds confront a gang of swindlers. Norberto Lorenzi and Guillermo Parodi are the two "jokers" who meet and relate with the usual initial distrust. Lorenzo is impelled by the necessity to clear the name of Pérez, hi ...