Manuel Embalse

Internal Comms (2024)

Meri unearths memories about Osvaldo, her father, a militant and leader of the Workers' Party in Argentina. Much like piecing together a shattered vase, she delves into the chronicle of the first accusation of gender violence within that organization. The ...

Billinghurst (2024)

A group of young writers, entangled in their relationships, argue about success, love, and death. The night's tide brings to light what was previously hidden and some weaknesses. ...

Every Document of Civilization (2024)

A look back at the murder of a teenager by the Buenos Aires police, through the words of his mother and her obsessive observation of the place of his forced disappearance. ...

Código abierto (2024)

The Antes Muerto Cine collective presents an episodic film about nature, technology, politics, violence and affection; about times past and times to come, from the noisy, angry, rebellious present. Rather be dead than policemen, than defeated, than... ...

Ojalá pudiera decir la verdad (2024)

After collecting multiple records related to a painful family tragedy, Victor dives into the archive in search of answers about what really happened on January 26, 1983 ...

The New Ruins (2024)

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary, crossing borders and archives. One day, he arrives at an electronic recycling workshop where the ...

La primera imagen de Marte (2023)

The Despair of the Monkeys (2022)

The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias that ad ...

Danube (2021)

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence. ...

The Impossible Future (2021)

A Summer Love (2021)

A young author sets off to Argentina to seek the lost fragments of her life story. Using the archival photographs and a personal narrative, this autobiographical reconstruction of a family history documents how world history shaped the outcome of one summe ...

Ski (2021)

There is a monster in Lake Nahuel Huapi. At twilight, it spreads across the surface of the water like a taut cowhide, grabbing its victims with sharp claws. Another monster also lurks around the lake, near Bariloche, in the Argentine Andes. ...

What I'm Doing In This Visual World? (2020)

What is it like to produce images in 2020 while blind? Zezé Fassmor is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist living in Buenos Aires: "I do everything but see", says his biography on the social networks he uses. He lost his sight at the age of 25 and today, ...

Embopa (2020)

Juan and Luciano find out some girls are staying in the neighboring house and decide to spy on them. The girls play hide and seek and start changing. When they realize they are being watched, they will try to capture the boys. ...

Encyclopedia Catalog (2020)

One day, I found a box in the trash with super 8 cartridges and a book entitled "Catalog". The images could be from a cameraman of the past or the future. What would happen if someone found my life in a SD card in a pawnshop? What would my catalog of image ...

Río Turbio (2020)

According to the myth still in force in the coal towns of Patagonia, if a woman enters a mine, the earth becomes jealous. Then, there's collapse and death. Shady River starts from a dark personal experience to transform in a film about the silence of women ...

Owner's Portrait (2018)

"Owner's Portrait" is a documentary fable, with an atmosphere of science fiction: on a remote island, where there are no more humans or money left, lives a community of cats that transmits a libertarian message. The antennas propagate it throughout the pla ...

The New Ruins (2024)

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary, crossing borders and archives. One day, he arrives at an electronic recycling workshop where the ...

The Day They Prohibited The Roast (2016)

In a country where the consumption of meat is prohibited, a group of vegans face off against the last resistance of barbecue lovers. ...