María Villar

You Burn Me (2025)

An adaptation of "Sea Foam", a chapter from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò" published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown her ...

Buenas noches (2025)

A young Brazilian girl travels to Argentina to visit her aunt, but after a misunderstanding and the loss of her belongings, she must kill time until the next morning. ...

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe (2024)

A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours. Work inspired by the book "Kunst der Farbe" by Johannes Itten. ...

A Blue Bird (2023)

For over six years, Javier and Valeria have been trying to get pregnant. At work Javier is approached by Camila, a coworker, and tells him she is pregnant with his baby. In the following days, his relationship—indeed, his entire existence—starts to fal ...

A Grain of Rice from a House Where No One Has Died (2023)

A woman who will die soon tells her three children that she wants to do so with as little intervention as possible. They don't know how much of that desire they will be able to fulfill. Accompanying her in her decision makes them confront the way in which ...

Último Recurso (2023)

The arrival of a package to the newsroom of a run-down sports magazine triggers an investigation that would indicate that the first World Cup was played in 1926, won by Argentina and for some reason was erased from official history. ...

Un Andantino (2023)

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by ...

Mein Buch (2023)

The tale of a family during the 20 th century, built from archive footage. Through an imaginary dialogue between two characters a plot begins to weave that finally reveals who they are—a father and a daughter, and the peculiar history that binds them. ...

The Heart of Europe (2022)

The filmmaker Julián Pintos and his alter ego find themselves confined to their isolated home in the countryside during the pandemic ravaging Europe in the 21st century and embark on a strange journey of initiation, in which they will meet the mysterious ...

Flipper (2021)

A man steals his wife's diamond ring and sells it to buy a pinball. Three friends travel to the coast to buy a pinball but are scammed and receive unexpected help. A woman accidentally kills her lover, disposes of his body, and later learns that he might h ...

Isabella (2021)

Mariel wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". With the support of Luciana, who is also an actress, she has already rehearsed the part. But during the audition, Mariel realises that Luciana is trying out for the same role. ...

La Flor (2019)

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes… ...

Leónidas (2019)

Portrait of Leónidas Barletta, founder of Teatro del Pueblo, the first independent theatre in Latin America. This film on the controversial theatre director and left wing journalist is constructed from the letters and books Leónidas sent to his young sis ...

Respirar (2018)

Julia discovers that she is pregnant with her ex-husband, but he does not know it. He is thirty years old and must decide what to do with the baby on the way. At night, it is not easy for him to sleep, and when he does he has distressing dreams. He dreams ...

Tres valijas (2018)

The Little Match Girl (2017)

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to ...

Hermia & Helena (2016)

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious ...

The Princess of France (2014)

A year after his father's death, Victor returns to Buenos Aires in order to reconquer the life he was forced to abandon. He brings a new project with him for his former theater company: a radio-play of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost". ...

Viola (2012)

Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night. ...

Rosalinda (2011)

A group of actors retire to an island in Tigre to rehearse William Shakespeare's As You Like It and suddenly Luisa, who is playing Rosalinda, makes a bad decision. ...

Cynthia todavía tiene las llaves (2010)

Cynthia takes us through the rooms of her ex-boyfriend's house, while she carries out her plan. ...

What I Love the Most (2010)

Pilar lives in the south. She recently lost her father and is now on her own. María came to visit her, to keep her company and take a break from the boyfriend she's on the point of leaving. Neither has the wherewithal to comfort the other. Neither knows w ...

Everyone Lies (2009)

A group of girls and boys in their twenties settle in a country house that seems completely isolated from civilization, invited by Helena, who plans something humiliating for one of the guests. ...

The Stolen Man (2007)

A young Argentinian woman who works as a museum guide uses her passion - reading - as a means of expression to channel the emotional and working lives of those around her. ...

About Buenos Aires (2006)

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its narrative structure. There are several scenes with only the city in common, and more as a conceptual presenc ...

You Burn Me (2025)

An adaptation of "Sea Foam", a chapter from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò" published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown her ...