Lita Stantic

Alemania (2024)

Sixteen-year-old Lola is studying for her resits when the possibility of a semester in Germany comes up. Lola wants to go, but her family, bogged down by her elder sister's psychiatric problems, don't want her to make the trip. The lack of stability and ex ...

Ongoing Cave (2023)

In his previous films, Hacerme feriante (2010) and Embodied Letters (2015), Julián D'Angiolillo managed to go deep inside two universes that, even though they take place in front of everyone, remained invisible and inscrutable, as though they were subterr ...

Wanderer. The Conquest of Home (2022)

Between January 2019 and May 2020, Adriana Lestido undertook a journey, without company or assistance, through the Arctic Circle and the Svalbard Islands, a frigid and inhospitable region shared by Norway and Iceland. During those months, Argentine photogr ...

Flora's Life is No Picnic (2018)

Flora Schvartzman is a ninety year-old single woman who has wanted to die since the day she was born. Distanced from her family, she gets in touch with them to organize her own death. Iair, her great-nephew, is the first one to take an interest in her and ...

Our House in Cuba (2015)

There was a time in Argentina, not so long ago, when the army wasn't only one, official, but many and made up by civilians. In those times of courageous youths determined to fight to the death for that cause upheld around Peronism as wll as some left-wing ...

Habi, The Foreigner (2013)

Analía's mother sends her to Buenos Aires to deliver some handicrafts. She is expected to return home quickly to the country town where she is to take on her family's hairdressing salon. But by chance an address mix-up leads her to a Muslim community wher ...

Muta (2011)

Directed by Argentinean Lucrecia Martel, MUTA, meaning both "mute" and "transformation", is a beautiful and cryptic portrayal of an all female world of symbolism, hidden meaning and intrigue. ...

Diletante (2008)

An Argentinean octogenarian shares with us her philosophy of life. A different time, but also an exuberant landscape firmly in the present. ...

Café de los maestros (2008)

Coffee Masters is a documentary by Miguel Kohan, produced by Lita Stantic, Gustavo Santaolalla and Walter Salles. It tells the story of great tango of the old guard who, summoned by a rock musician, proposing a record to demonstrate its validity. This adve ...

The Holy Girl (2004)

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. R ...

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 ...

Bolivia (2002)

Freddy emigrates to Buenos Aires in search of a more prosperous life. In his native country, Bolivia, he left his family. But the capital of Argentina is not the paradise he dreamed of, and much less for illegal immigrants like himself. But even with that, ...

La Ciénaga (2001)

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fr ...

Crane World (1999)

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

Dársena Sur (1997)

With testimonies from residents of the neighborhood of Dock Sud, it deals with pollution of the river, harmful smoke from chimneys, distilleries, floodplains, garbage dumps and precarious boxes. ...

The Day Maradona Met Gardel (1996)

Two guys as different as a watchmaker and a television editor have to free Carlos Gardel's soul from a strange pact with the devil, who has it trapped. To break the spell, these fans of El Morocho del Abasto, and improvised exorcists, need to find a mythic ...

Historias Breves 0: Distant encounters (1993)

Humans have disappeared, only a few remain who try to hide so as not to disappear like the rest. What do these strange beings hide? Why do they love us? What's its purpose? ...

A Wall of Silence (1993)

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

Historias Breves 0: Latidos (1993)

A couple robs a supermarket, but the tension caused by a surprising event triggers an unexpected end. ...

Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae (1993)

Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, "Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls", tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers. ...

Summer of the Colt (1991)

This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and ...

I, the Worst of All (1990)

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition. ...

Fútbol argentino (1990)

A history of Argentine football, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the victory of the Argentine national team in the 1986 World Cup. The film uses valuable archival footage. ...

Miss Mary (1986)

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Fears (1980)

A plague ravages Buenos Aires. Those affected by it are executed on the spot; those who are healthy should report to the authorities. Escaping both from the authorities and from the disease, seven survivors head south. ...

The Island (1979)

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation. ...

Contragolpe (1979)

Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan. ...

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. ...

Saverio, el cruel (1977)

Saverio is an insurance broker who arrives in a small town after receiving a letter from a potential client requesting insurance for "special affections." Upon arriving at the mansion, Saverio is captivated by the beauty of Susana, the granddaughter and he ...

La película (1975)

A photographer shoots a documentary film in a small town in Argentina (Uribelarrea) about the filming that a foreign producer is doing on the spot. ...

Los Velázquez (1972)

Mosaico (La vida de una modelo) (1970)

The life of an advertising model, since she is discovered by a producer, until she decides to move away from the advertising environment. ...

Un día... (1966)

El bombero está triste y llora (1965)

Diario de campamento (1964)

Chango, the Light Uncovers (2021)

Félix Monti is synonymous with cinematography in Argentina. From his early steps in the legendary San Miguel studios to his recent work in large-scale Argentine film productions, Chango has never stopped working. Directors Alejandra Martín and Paola Rizz ...

A Beautiful Dream (2020)

"For her next movie, De eso no se habla, María Luisa Bemberg needs a dwarf". That was an ad on local media during preproduction of the movie that would become the last od the director. Among the peoplewho responded the ad was Alejandra Podestá, who ended ...

El cine a través de la música (2019)

Tribute documentary on the relationship between music and image in the cinema, as a constitutive part of it, with great musical moments in Argentine films together with the words of those who compose and direct. ...

The Holy Girl: Making Of (2005)

Making of documentary ...