Alejandro Fernández Mouján

Leaving Romero (2025)

After 140 years, there are alternatives to an asylum. Leaving Romero closely follows the experience of deinstitutionalization, focusing on the lives of the users and those who are the driving force of this process: the young people who make up the Movement ...

(...) The Same River (2021)

What are three years in the life of a river, on its coast, in a corner of South America? The seasons follow one another; time speaks of a Río de la Plata that is always different. The air brings voices from the past and the present; we realize that we are ...

The Autumn of the Ceibo Tree (2016)

The Ceibo tree, which had played an essential role in Mayan culture, is the protagonist of Alejandro Mouján's short film from 2016, in which the director observes the passing of time, this transitory state that is so precious, and yet goes almost unnotice ...

Damiana Kryygi (2015)

The year is 1896. In the dense jungle of Paraguay a three years old Ache girl survives a slaughter perpetrated by white settlers. The girl is named Damiana by her captors. Anthropologists from the La Plata Museum of Natural Sciences in Argentina take her a ...

Land in Revolt: Black Gold (2011)

The epic of popular resistance to the privatization of oil in Argentina and its tragic consequences: thousands of layoffs, poverty and environmental pollution. It was one of the biggest scams and failures of national history: the country was self-sufficien ...

Land in Revolt: Impure Gold (2009)

After Memoria del saqueo, La dignidad de los nadies, Argentina latente and La próxima estación, Solanas begins with Oro puro a diptych on the plundering of mineral resources (metals and hydrocarbons). This remarkable and powerful documentary denounces th ...

Los resistentes (2009)

Stories of protagonists of the clandestine struggle called Peronist resistance, between 1955 and 1965. First the bombings of the civilian population of Buenos Aires on June 16 and then the military coup of September 16, 1955, drive workers and people from ...

The Next Station (2008)

The history of the Argentine railways, from 1857 until the crisis of the current transport system. The closing of branches of the railway lines turned towns whose main source of work was the train into ghost towns. The privatization of the lines caused the ...

Regreso a Fortín Olmos (2008)

Documentary about another documentary by its director Patricio Coll and Jorge Goldenberg, "Hachero nomás". ...

Pulqui, un instante en la patria de la felicidad (2007)

The Pulqui jet was also designed and built in Argentina by 1947. It was the first aircraft of this type to be manufactured in Latin America. The project is the initiative of Juan Domingo Peron, who also wanted an aircraft capable of competing with the Sovi ...

Dormant Argentina (2007)

As the third installment in an ongoing series of muckraking documentaries by Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas that investigate various sociological aspects of South America's second-largest nation (following 2004's Memoria del saqueo and 2005's La Dign ...

Espejo para cuando me pruebe el smoking (2005)

On December 20, 2001, a sculptor collects tear gas capsules, shotgun cartridges, rubber bullets, and stones thrown at protesters, and with them begins the construction of a work. ...

Pin Boy (2004)

A country boy tries to find his place in Buenos Aires. He goes to live with his cousin in the outer suburbs and works as a parapalos ("pin setter") in one of the city's last hand-operated bowling alleys. ...

Social Genocide (2004)

After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost ...

Las Palmas, Chaco (2002)

Las Palmas is a town that had promising beginnings due to the installation on the site of the Las Palmas sugar mill of the Hardy brothers. Thanks to this establishment, at the end of the 19th century the town became the first town to have an electrical pow ...

Caminos del Chaco (1999)

Buenos Aires, crónicas villeras (1986)

Documentary based on the forced expulsion of more than 250,000 slum dwellers from the Federal Capital during the last military dictatorship. A sympathetic and compassionate look at the suffering of marginalized individuals. ...

Camila (1984)

In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church. ...

Caminos del Chaco (1999)