Marcelo Céspedes

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the ...

The Passion of Michelangelo (2013)

An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story. ...

Gricel. Un amor en tiempo de tango (2012)

Musical documentary about the love story between tango lyricist José María Contursi and a village girl named Gricel. After a passionate and forbidden romance, Contursi and Gricel separate and propose to forget each other, but they discover that forgettin ...

Regreso a Fortín Olmos (2008)

Documentary about another documentary by its director Patricio Coll and Jorge Goldenberg, "Hachero nomás". ...

Photographs (2007)

Director Andrés Di Tella travels for the first time to India in search of his Indian mother's past only to find unexpected facts. ...

Night Watch (2005)

A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to fr ...

I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me (2003)

Argentinean singer and tango legend Ada Falcón disappeared without a trace in 1942 at the height of her career. This is the story of how she was located sixty years later, living in an unexpected way, in an unexpected place. ...

The Blonds (2003)

In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing toge ...

Por la vuelta (2003)

A personal film, an intimate journey into an unknown fiction: that of Leopoldo Federico, his music, and his bandoneon. The journey is none other than the one Pauls takes internally, delving into his hidden memories and experiences, searching in the traces ...

Everything Together (2002)

Federico León crosses the path of the cinema to tell in Everything together the endless, torn struggles of a couple that never stops separating. ...

H.I.J.O.S.: El alma en dos (2002)

Documentary about the group H.I.J.O.S. (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Oblivion and Silence). ...

Yo sor Alice (1999)

In December 1977, two French nuns, Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet, were kidnapped in Buenos Aires by a squad of commandos from the Argentinean Navy. They were held and tortured at the ESMA - the School of Naval Engineering and were never seen again. Moving ...

Tinta roja (1998)

The way a group of police journalists track and obtain information for their work. ...

Jaime de Nevares: Último viaje (1995)

Documentary film about the life of Neuquén bishop Jaime de Nevares. ...

Historias de amores semanales (1993)

La noche eterna (1991)

The words of the Río Turbio miners and their wives. A testimony to human dignity, shaped by a past of sacrifice and an uncertain future. ...

La virgen gaucha (1987)

The parallel accounts of the story of the Virgin of Luján in the seventeenth century and of a blind violinist who regains her vision during the Pope's visit to Argentina in 1982 ...

A los compañeros, la libertad (1987)

It recounts the prison experiences of political prisoners during the last Argentine dictatorship and questions the laws of due obedience and the final point. ...

Hospital Borda: un llamado a la razón (1986)

Buenos Aires, crónicas villeras (1986)

Documentary based on the forced expulsion of more than 250,000 slum dwellers from the Federal Capital during the last military dictatorship. A sympathetic and compassionate look at the suffering of marginalized individuals. ...

Por una tierra nuestra (1985)

The documentary portrays the occupation of land in the town of San Francisco Solano ...

De este pueblo (1985)

Film produced by the Grupo Cine Testimonio that brings together short film works from the period 1983-1985. It includes the shorts The Nose, Not So White, Not So Indian, For Our Land, and La Cruz Gil. ...

Win 392 (1984)

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. ...

Los totos (1983)

Produced in almost marginal conditions, Los Totos is a portrait of life in impoverished neighbourhoods ...

La Ballena Va Llena (2014)

Win 392 (1984)

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. ...