Maximiliano Schonfeld

The Message (2025)

In the Argentinian countryside, a child's special gift gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with her as an animal medium in order to earn a living. ...

Big Shadow (2024)

A few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today ...

The Delights (2023)

High school students find their way in life at Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. This striking coming-of-age film takes place against an inviting backdrop of fields of crops, greenhouses full of tomato plants, and the ...

Rituales de registro (2023)

An incomplete travel (and sound) chronicle; a place occupied by maps and globes; a recollection of memories instead of the repetition of an imprecise image. In the spaces that remain between these surfaces, Recording Rituals intends to meditate on the rela ...

Luminum (2022)

Mother and daughter Silvia et Andrea are also ufologists. They run a UFO research group together and stand guard, chasing the lights that appear mysteriously over the Paraná river. Joyously adopting the genre of (science-)fiction, Maximiliano Schonfeld us ...

Jesús López (2022)

Jesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his town in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place in life. ...

A Common Crime (2021)

Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found. ...

El médium (2021)

Tromboneros (2021)

Every year, for one week, more than 150 trombonists come from different countries to meet in Santa Fe, a small city on the banks of the Paraná River, where they participate in collective courses and individual classes, and perform and listen to music. ...

Santa Fe - notas, 2017-2019 (2020)

Santa Fe - notes, 2017 - 2019 is a story made up of fragments of landscapes, buildings, voices and objects. It is a film built on the relationship between art and the colony, memory and threat, native peoples and silence. ...

There Will Come Soft Rains (2018)

In a working-class neighborhood, in the outskirts of a small town, a group of children is faced with a strange and terrifying incident, which will soon develop into a true epidemic: all adults have turned into "sleepy beings". The children, petrified yet d ...

Yo pasto de los leones (2018)

A young actress directs a casting for a film about the flood in Santa Fe. Between the voices of people, current, past, and her own experience of the landscape, questions begin to arise. ...

Toublanc (2017)

Three stories inspired by stories by Juan José Saer. A police officer returns to his hometown to investigate a murder; a teacher complains about a horse that has been abandoned. One day, a man is found dead, and there is no trace of the horse, which is th ...

Un hombre que no supo adónde ir (2016)

A man, who shifts his gaze from cultural existence to a more intimate and decidedly more dangerous place. This places him in an uncomfortable place in the eyes of others and in himself. ...

La siesta del tigre (2016)

Along distant and desolate streams, five men start looking for the fossil of the largest feline that has ever inhabited these lands – the saber-toothed tiger –, holding onto the hope of saving themselves through the sale of the bones of the tiger. ...

The Black Frost (2016)

Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by 'black frost' which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely an ...

Gulliver (2015)

After a party, Agos and Ren find themselves in a strange place where they remember to have been before… A failed world bursting with dependences and doors leading to the same yet different place. ...

Germania (2013)

A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina. ...

As Close as Possible (2012)

Downtrodden after some missteps in life, Daniel returns home. Work is non-existent, his ex-wife expects financial help he can't give her, and things are looking bleak. Yet as he prepares to become Godfather to his sister's son, who's soon to be baptised, h ...

Aún despierta (2011)

Carolina is the mother of a teenage girl who arrives to one of the public hospitals in the outskirts of Buenos Aires suffering the consequences of a clandestine abortion. Trying to get to her daughter, she will go thought the whole hospital and this walk b ...

A Mysterious World (2011)

Boris is stunned when his girlfriend Ana asks for some time apart. He doesn't know why and she can't explain it. Some time can mean so many things. How much time apart? A week, a month, years? During this imprecise period of uncertainty, Boris is left at t ...

Lo-Fi (2011)

How do the interhouse trips sound? ...

Pavón (2010)

Two cousins ​​meet in a German village in the province of Entre Ríos. Roberto lives in Buenos Aires, Sergio in Paraná. Both are around forty years old. They have met there to decide what to do with an old, abandoned warehouse belonging to their famil ...

Argentino Vargas (2010)

A retired boxer is willing to do anything to return to the ring and conquer the woman who never wanted to reciprocate him. ...

Amaina (2010)

Two brothers await with their dying mother the precise moment that the rain gives them a break. The harvest has had its time to ripen and has begun to weaken. They would make a decision: stay there to take care of her or go out to do the job before the wat ...

Sirenas (2007)

Short film by Iván Fund ...

Pavón (2010)

Two cousins ​​meet in a German village in the province of Entre Ríos. Roberto lives in Buenos Aires, Sergio in Paraná. Both are around forty years old. They have met there to decide what to do with an old, abandoned warehouse belonging to their famil ...