Federico Esquerro

The Woman in the Line (2025)

Andrea visits her incarcerated son for the first time. Initially eyed with suspicion by other women in line, she gradually gains their trust — and emerges as a powerful advocate for justice reform. ...

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 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. ...

Norma (2023)

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

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 ...

Argentina 1985 (2022)

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time. ...

Little Lies (2022)

Amidst the problems in their childless marriage, Matías and Eva try their hand at matchmaking, setting up their friend Barbara with the man who seems perfect, Julián. Once they realize that Julian is not what he seems, they try to warn Barbara away, but ...

Cafrune (2022)

In 1978, Jorge Cafrune, musician and Argentinian folklore icon, set out on horseback to cross the country to pay tribute to the liberator general, José de San Martín. On the first night on the road, he was hit by a van. Some believe that the crime was or ...

El futuro (2022)

A series of documentary portraits filmed throughout the pandemic. Police control, screens, masks, and protective suits were imposed on everyday life, revealing that environment of estrangement that fiction had so often foreshadowed. ...

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 ...

No va más (2021)

Isolated in his apartment, old and forgotten by almost everyone —whom, in turn, he has also forgotten— Rafael occupies the hours of his daily life with various rituals and repetitions. ...

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 ...

López (2021)

An intimate portrait of Marcos López, unique and unclassifiable figure, film director, visual artist and one of the most prominent contemporary photographers in Latin America. ...

Santa (2021)

Angélica (2020)

Without a doubt, Angélica is having a crisis. Her mother died recently, she has to empty out her childhood home because it is going to be demolished, she doesn't seem to have gotten over her split with her ex, and she is about to turn 40. Without any idea ...

Vicenta (2020)

A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl ...

Rosita (2019)

The Other Summer (2018)

Rodrigo lives in Córdoba. He runs and manages his dad's cabins for tourists. Summer is around the corner. One day he meets seventeen year old Juan, who has just arrived into town all the way from Buenos Aires. ...

The Quietude (2018)

Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father's stroke and is forced to confront dark secret. ...

Hunting Season (2017)

La Patagonia, southern Argentina. After his mother's death, Nahuel, a violent teenager, meets his biological father, Ernesto, a skillful hunting guide; but their reunion is harsh, since their souls are only ruled by pride and resentment. ...

Only Child (2016)

Delfina returns from New York to a small riverside town in the province of Buenos Aires. There she visits a tomb of an older woman and one of a younger woman, named Julia, who is identical to her. ...

Historias breves 7 (2012)

The seventh issue of the almanac of short stories. The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Competition and Filmmakers Support Program. ...

Flesh and Blood (2012)

An actor's journey playing an assassin on the set of a film that takes place in a Buenos Aires' butcher shop. Short novella from the anthology "Historias breves 7". The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Comp ...

White Elephant (2012)

While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker. ...

The Student (2011)

Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ...

Carancho (2010)

Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for wo ...

Tetro (2009)

In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer haunted by their family's past. As Bennie uncovers Tetro's hidden manuscript, old secrets and rivalries resurface, forcing both men to confront the truth abo ...

Lion's Den (2008)

Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with ...

Born and Bred (2006)

In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident. ...

Gemini (2005)

An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from see ...

The Prisoner (2005)

Ana, Manuel and Leo, three young people in modern-day Buenos Aires, get caught in a spiral of coincidence and suspicion, misconduct and persecution. None of them is innocent. ...

Camisea (2005)

From the Peruvian Amazon region crossing along the Andes, up to the Pacific Ocean, a monumental gas pipeline is built to transport natural gas for the first time to the city of Lima. All along 750 kilometers, this work is known as the Camisea Project. The ...

Esas cuatro notas (2004)

A film about the Argentine opera ...

El bonaerense (2002)

Zapa is a locksmith in a remote and quiet little town, lost somewhere deep in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and gets him a spot to join the Provincial Police as an aspiring of ...

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 ...

Bonanza (2001)

Follows a peculiar white-bearded snake and bird catcher, who lives in his scrap-yard and zoo just outside Buenos Aires. ...

Mary's City (2001)

The supposed apparition of a virgin to a religious woman turns an Argentine city into a point of attraction for devout Catholics and a great economic resource for a town hit by lack of employment. ...

Crane World (1999)

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job. ...

Carancho (2010)

Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for wo ...

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. ...

Born and Bred (2006)

In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident. ...

Otra vuelta (2005)

Sebastián Pagani, a young film director, returns to his hometown to film a story of Haroldo Conti. There he expected a ghost from the past: recently, a childhood friend just committed suicide in mysterious circumstances. Pagani gets to know details about ...

Rolling Family (2004)

A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan. ...

Código postal (2002)

It narrates Fede's trip from the time he leaves Tierra del Fuego until he arrives in the city of Buenos Aires, and also his meeting with Natalia in the middle of the route. ...

Just for Today (2001)

The film is about the stories of Ailí, Morón, Equis, Fer and Toro. They live together in Buenos Aires. It shows the intimacy of every day situations combining like a puzzle fragments of the five characters during five days of the week. Each one go throug ...

Crane World (1999)

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job. ...