Luis Ortega

Kill the Jockey (2024)

Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now i ...

Salomé (2020)

At night a traveling flash runs through the streets of Buenos Aires hell, illuminating even the most remote roads. It's easy to mistake it for an angel. Its light, volatile step numbs the city and condenses the glances. It takes refuge in subways and tunne ...

Atenas (2019)

Persephone is released from prison after three years. Returning to the neighborhood will present him with a new hell. Without a job, she gets the help of Juana who shelters her in her house and with whom she looks for some changa to survive. ...

Lluvia de jaulas (2019)

Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead. A garden of amputated flowers, which with crutches on their backs, still grow and dance. ...

El Angel (2018)

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death. ...

Lulú (2016)

Two young urchins turn the streets of Buenos Aires into their own magical playground, in this vibrant portrait of young love. ...

Dromómanos (2013)

Five wanderers roam around Buenos Aires and it's wild outskirts. God, schizophrenia and alcoholism is what gathers them in the search for salvation. A love triangle and the obsession over a little pig in the religiosity of the ghetto; a mental institution ...

Ludmila en Cuba (2013)

Ludmila Vieytes is in a cockfight in Cuba. With her baby in her arms and in a wheelchair, she comes to a passive acceptance of the torture, of the human and divine violence that shapes her beliefs. ...

Damn Summer (2011)

Julieta and Federico are parents of three boys, it is a high class family. He is a successful architect. They receive the visit of Tito, uncle of Federico, a gray man who has just left the prison. Tito wants to go to the sea and Federico proposes to go to ...

The Dirty Saints (2011)

Luis Ortega's apocalyptic third feature follows a group of five survivors as they embark on a journey that will force them to face their fears, dreams and longings in their quest for salvation across the Fijman River. ...

Monobloc (2005)

The godmother and Perla are the world to "the little girl," a world defined by the four walls of a studio apartment with one window looking nowhere. Only space and alter the monotony, the blood transfusion sessions to which must be submitted Pearl and almo ...

Black Box (2002)

It tells the story of three characters: a young woman who works at a dry cleaner, a father who leaves prison and the Salvation Army, and an old woman. ...

Macadam (2022)

Nocturnos (2011)

Follows a man as he silently goes through the desperation of a break-up. He aimlessly wanders the streets, meeting the night people of Buenos Aires; loners, thieves, fugitives, homeless, suicides, lovers and the ghost of the lost lover. ...

The Dirty Saints (2011)

Luis Ortega's apocalyptic third feature follows a group of five survivors as they embark on a journey that will force them to face their fears, dreams and longings in their quest for salvation across the Fijman River. ...