Ricardo Merkin

Miranda, de viernes a lunes (2024)

Miranda is a 48-year-old teacher who changes her perspective on life when she hears reports of harassment and abuse from the students at the school where she teaches. Over the weekend she will decide that it's time to hear her voice and make it heard along ...

Long Life to Memories (2023)

A feature film that intertwines a handful of short fictional stories marked by the anguish that the death of loved ones always causes: two women who miss the same man, an old man who returns to the place where he lived experiences that left a mark on him i ...

Zama (2017)

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia. ...

The Candidate (2016)

A team of advisers is brought in to manufacture the image of Marchand, producing social media profiles, commercials and a new public persona. Conflict arises when it is revealed that not everyone is who they present themselves to be. At his country estate, ...

Amapola (2014)

A romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands. ...

Hostage of an Illusion (2012)

Pablo is being pursued by what seems like a mob of fans. However, the truth soon emerges that his assailants are actually the cast of characters from his books who are angry that he won't continue to write their lives. When Laura, a former student, turns ...

Found Memories (2012)

Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cu ...

La guerra del cerdo (2012)

In an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old. ...

Passage (2009)

Three estranged sisters reunite one night when the oldest comes back for her two younger sisters after leaving them years before in mysterious circumstances. ...

The Aerial (2007)

An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants. ...

A Year Without Love (2005)

A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires. ...

Today and Tomorrow (2004)

At 24, Paula wants to be an actress, but if she doesn't find her rent money she'll be homeless in 24 hours. Paula is so desperate that she seriously contemplates becoming a prostitute. ...

It's Not You, It's Me (2004)

Thirty-year-old Javier is a surgeon and in his free time works as a disc jockey. He decides to marry and move to the United States with his girlfriend María. They make all their plans; they wed, and then María is the first to move and make contacts in th ...

El Tigre escondido (2003)

Bernardo is fifty years old and feels overwhelmed, confused, almost devastated; surrounded by the violence typical of a society that is slowly collapsing. With relationship problems, difficulties in conceiving a child and a woman who cannot - and does not ...

Buenos Aires plateada (2000)

A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communi ...

El camino (2000)

Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to ...

¿Dónde estaba Dios cuando te fuiste? (1999)

A crime and a voice that accuses. ...

Fine Powder (1998)

The problems of a young man, his pregnant girlfriend and his lover. ...

A Crysanthemum Bursts in Cincoesquinas (1998)

Years after a civil war, Erasmo's must face violence once more: His foster mother was murdered. On his way to find the murderer he makes friends with the Jew Saul. ...

Moebius (1996)

Deep within Buenos Aires's labyrinthine subway system, a train mysteriously disappears along with it's 30 passengers. The subway officials are greatly troubled and call in topographer Daniel Pratt to help them find it. Unfortunately, the tunnels are so vas ...

Bar de Mala Muerte (1993)