Manuel Callau

Tiempo largo y jodido... ¿Qué quieres que te diga? (2024)

Come To My Home This Christmas (2023)

It is a hot, humid and sticky night. Inés, a woman in her forties, is driving through the city of Buenos Aires towards the Buenos Aires suburbs. She is on her way to spend Christmas with her brother's in-laws whom she does not know. During these hours of ...

Maro’s Secret (2021)

Sand Eyes (2021)

Clara, a psychologist, and her husband Gustavo have been separated since the disappearance of their son, Lucas. A year after Lucas' disappearance, Gustavo finds on Facebook information about a girl, Augustina, who went missing just two days after Lucas. Th ...

Safe Passage (2015)

In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away f ...

El karma de Carmen (2014)

Carmen fails to adapt to the world and society in which she lives. She worries about not having a partner. In a raffle he wins as a prize a week with all payment for two in Mar del Plata. She is willing not to go alone. ...

Cuando yo te vuelva a ver (2013)

Thirty years after living in Spain, Paco returns to Argentina to sponsor the wedding of a friend. Retired and separated from his Spanish wife, he is reunited with his affections. As always, in the last thirty years, Margarita, and retired as a teacher, lif ...

Overflow (2011)

Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Jo ...

Terapias alternativas (2007)

Devil's Point (2006)

A surgeon from Buenos Aires, wearied by personal problems and the endless cycle of work, leaves for a week's skiing vacation in the south. Instead, on impulse, he follows a young hitchhiker to a small fishing village, Devil's Point, in the north, on the co ...

Sueños atómicos (2005)

Cruz de sal (2004)

A story about a police commissioner and his doctor friend, the appearance of a woman's corpse and the suspicions that are woven around it linked to committee politics, police corruption, and even myths and legends. ...

Swim Alone (2003)

The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn't belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin ...

I Won't Go Back Home (2001)

A noir vision of a paranoid and dangerous Buenos Aires where a group of diverse Porteños are fatefully linked by a brutal killing. ...

Buenos Aires plateada (2000)

A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communi ...

Brain Drain (1998)

Fideo and Panta are two teenage rascals and thieves who dream of traveling to "the promised land", the United States. Rambling between good and evil, roc and tango, this is an action story turned romance when the two youngsters fall in love innocently, but ...

Canción desesperada (1997)

Wake Up Love (1996)

Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get ...

Comix, cuentos de amor, de video y de muerte (1995)

In the episode "Textual," set in the near future, a man clings to a pornographic video he's found. The episode "Trip" takes place on a space voyage where a device records and reproduces sexual sensations. In the episode "Fade to Black," a house's caretaker ...

Muerte dudosa (1994)

A young businessman, owner of a major publishing house, is found shot to the head. Everything suggests a murder, since he was doing a journalistic investigation about a shady business. ...

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 ...

The shield of the condor (1989)

A little circus pawn and his trainer are sent to an unknown planet where, protected with his powerful shield, he fights robots. ...

Extrañas Salvajes (1988)

An anthropologist arrives on an island inhabited by two tribes, one dark-haired and the other blonde, and begins to form a close relationship with a young woman from the latter group. One of the few co-productions between Argentina and Sweden, this is an e ...

Los dueños del silencio (1987)

A Swedish journalist in Buenos Aires is about to reveal the circumstances surrounding the young Swedish-Argentine woman Lena Melin's disappearance. The military junta of Argentina is threatening to deport him. ...

Los amores de Laurita (1986)

Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a su ...

Night of the Pencils (1986)

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings t ...

Flores robadas en los jardines de Quilmes (1985)

After a chance meeting, two former lovers look back on their relationship. ...

Murder in The Senate (1984)

Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England. ...

To Realize (1984)

After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient. ...

The Arrangement (1983)

Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement". ...

To Return (1982)

An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during th ...

The Hole in the Wall (1982)

In this modern retelling of the Faust legend, a freelance photographer meets the enigmatic Mefi, who leads him, through a hole in the wall, to a room where a disembodied voice predicts stock prices. ...