Julio Chávez

A Boat Departed from Me Taking Me Away (2023)

In the ranks of the Japanese army during WWII, there existed what was known as comfort women. In the present, that term was replaced by a definition that is closer to reality—they were women who had been kidnapped and turned into sex slaves. After a long ...

When I Look at Her (2022)

Javier, a plastic artist whose life goes by uneventfully, undertakes a strange project: to film his mother, an enigmatic and distant woman. He is not a filmmaker and improvises this task, which will bring an unexpected connection between the two. ...

El Pampero (2017)

An ill man takes a trip on his boat to remember quietly his life. Unexpectedly, a girl takes cover on the same boat. When the man finds her, she asks him for help because she will be charged for a crime she did not commit. On the way, they'll have several ...

The Other (2007)

Arriving at a distant town, a businessman decides to take the identity of a passenger who died during the bus trip. ...

The Custodian (2007)

Living the mundane existence of a professional bodyguard, always in the shadows of his clients, Ruben decides to make a change that will finally give him a personal connection outside of his solitary world. ...

Strange (2003)

The protagonist is Axel, aged about 40, a doctor who no longer practices his craft. He is living temporarily with his sister and her children. He doesn't do much, just exists a little between the living and their things. One day, he meets a young, pregnant ...

A Red Bear (2002)

Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damag ...

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. ...

A Wall of Silence (1993)

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government. ...

Refugio en la ciudad (1993)

A man wanders at dawn through different corners of Cuidad de Buenos Aires, devastated by the loss of a lover. ...

A King and His Movie (1986)

Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of the legend of the King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it. Despite of financial troubles, technical problems, misfortune and desertions, he undertakes the journey to Patagonia for the film ...

Nobody's Wife (1982)

It is the story of Eleanor, a good housewife who lives with her husband, Fernando, and their two children. Deeply loves her husband and does not question the reciprocity of love and fidelity. One day, circumstantially, discovers her husband is cheating. Le ...

The Lion's Share (1978)

Story of a ordinary human being who, by chance, take possession of the money that was stolen from a bank, thinking that will solve all his problems. ...

La nueva cigarra (1977)

No toquen a la nena (1976)

A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home. ...

The Bad Life (1973)

Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war. ...

When I Look at Her (2022)

Javier, a plastic artist whose life goes by uneventfully, undertakes a strange project: to film his mother, an enigmatic and distant woman. He is not a filmmaker and improvises this task, which will bring an unexpected connection between the two. ...

Musical Chairs (2003)

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who will do the impossible to honor him in that short stay. At that time, dramatic turns and touches of humor w ...