Mercedes Gaviria

The Prince of Nanawa (2026)

On a bustling footbridge separating Argentina and Paraguay, where people traffic all kinds of things in a mix of Guarani and Spanish, we meet Angel. Over the course of the next ten years, Angel will have to make decisive choices for his future. ...

Do or Die (2025)

In the Argentinian prison where he's serving a sentence, Marcos cherishes his smartphone, which he uses to keep in touch with family and loved ones. It's also the device with which, at the request of filmmaker Toia Bonino, he documents his daily life. His ...

White Roses, Fall! (2025)

In this genre-hopping road movie from Daughters of Fire director Albertina Carri, Violeta, the director of an amateur lesbian porn hit, is invited to make a mainstream crossover. With a budget and cast, but no firm idea where to go, the crew head off on a ...

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 ...

Just One Spring (2024)

Nina is a young woman of 20 years old who lives in Asunción in 1947 in the middle of the Paraguayan Civil War. She longs to be a singer, but is forced to work as a maid in a conservative environment after her family escapes. Although, she puts herself at ...

Notes for the future (2023)

After my grandmother's death I begin to question our gender roles between her generation and mine. Reflections, voice notes and 8mm files of women from different times try to define what they were in their time and what we long for in ours. ...

Prodigal Son (2023)

Renzo tries to get close to the universe of family and football, which has always seemed alien to him. He wanders between his current life and the one he could have had. ...

Silent Witnesses (2023)

Mudos testigos is a cinematographic collage made from all the surviving material of Colombian silent films, re-editing the images in such a way as to create a single imaginary film: the impossible love story of Efraín and Alicia that traces the convulsive ...

Herbaria (2022)

In his second feature film, Leandro Listorti establishes a parallel between two worlds he seems to know well: that of plants and that of cinema. This delicate cinematographic work, full of beautiful images—both archival and current—gives an account of ...

Long Time No Sleep (2022)

A sunny morning in Buenos Aires. All seems quiet, but then an odd race begins: a variety of people are after a backpack. A little army of seekers surprises us at every corner. Suddenly, a lonely bureaucrat (Mapache) is involved in this adventure, and new, ...

The Face of the Jellyfish (2022)

It is no coincidence that the second feature by Argentinian Melisa Liebenthal begins with a quote from "Duino Elegies" by Rilke, who was concerned with existential angst. And, more prosaically, Marina, the film's young protagonist, is faced with similar an ...

All Is Vanity (2022)

Marcos Mereles' archly funny, endlessly inventive and reflexive puzzle piece explores a strange disappearance at a hip London fashion shoot. ...

Clementina (2022)

Everyone is locked up, but Clementina and the man she's quarantined with won't stop working. We know little about him, and even less about her: we just see over and over again her mysterious face, which seems to defy everything. ...

To Kill the Beast (2021)

Emilia arrives at her Aunt Ines' hostel at the Argentina-Brazil border looking for her long lost brother. In this luxuriant jungle, a dangerous beast believed to be the spirit of an evil man taking the form of different animals seems to be roaming around. ...

Dad Got a Job in Mars (2021)

One Sunday in 1991, Félix and his sister Gemma, at the request of their mother, cycle through the streets of Santos Lugares, in search of their father. Félix believes that his dad got a job on the planet Mars. ...

Our Happiest Days (2021)

Agatha and Leonidas have a somewhat absorbing mother-child relationship: Agatha never fell in love again, and Leonidas doesn't know what love is. From one day to the next, Agatha wakes up in the body of a seven-year-old girl. ...

The Calm After the Storm (2021)

After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the pla ...

Eavesdropper (2021)

Flowers have decided to hear the noises of an unknown girl. ...

Channel 54 (2021)

An investigation about a transmission parallel to that of man's arrival to the Moon, captured by a radio ham from Avellaneda, confronts the director of Channel 54 with a series of conspiracy theories and mysterious figures. Doing so also means questioning ...

One in a Thousand (2020)

Set in a community of project houses, Iris, a young woman with a tough past, meets Renata and feels immediately attracted to her. A tender coming of age story about friendship and first love in a hostile environment. ...

The Dose (2020)

Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing. ...

Cruz (2020)

Argentina, late 19th century. Sergeant Cruz is wounded and walks lost through a forest in Patagonia. After a long walk, he finally reaches the shores of a lake where he sits waiting for the inevitable. ...

Mientras estamos (2019)

Lost Paradise (2019)

The Matsiguenka family belonged to an ancient tribe that has suffered great changes and losses in their customs at the expense of the "process of civilization". ...

Monster God (2019)

God is now a Power Plant. On a misty night cows escape, a child is chosen, and a girl tries to find freedom. ...

Night Shot (2019)

Eight years after having been raped at a beach near Santiago, a young filmmaker tells the story of the assault, the revictimizing judicial processes, and the friendship that helps her heal, in dozens of video-diary entries that comprise an artfully crafted ...

A Pack of Three (2019)

1980s' Argentina. Four young men decide to avoid being drafted to military service by staying in a car smoking cigarettes all night long. ...

Life In Common (2019)

A puma stalks Pueblo Nación Ranquel, an indigenous community in the North of Argentina. Hunting is a rite of passage, and the older boys want to kill the puma. But Uriel chooses a different path. ...

The Daughters of Fire (2018)

Three women meet by chance at the end of the world, in Argentinian Patagonia, and set out on a polyamorous journey, caught up in the search for new kinds of relationships, far from possession and pain. They become the Daughters of Fire, a band dedicated to ...

Las Vegas (2018)

By chance, Martin and Laura travel to Villa Gesell at the same time. They are not together anymore but 18 years ago they conceived their son, Pablo, there. Soon, situations as absurd as they are touching will arise from their encounter. Juan Villegas ventu ...

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 ...

Emelina (2016)

The Animal's Wife (2016)

Amparo, a submissive young woman, tries to escape from her strict convent school but falls into the hands of "El Animal," a violent and abusive man who forces her to become his wife. Trapped by fear and constant mistreatment, she clings to her love for her ...

Y si no es mañana (2013)

Wake up in the morning. He feels bad. He brushes his teeth after vomiting. Record the house reviewing drawings, a model and a written photo that makes him smile. He returns it to the cork of old familiar images. Make breakfast for two. Waits. ...

El último asado (2013)

For more than 30 years, 9 friends have religiously gathered in a roasted corner every month. When they find out that Javier, who makes the roasts, is going to live in another country, mixed feelings, betrayals and jealousy begin to emerge. Deep down, they ...

The Calm After the Storm (2021)

After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the pla ...

Emelina (2016)