Vanessa Ragone

Elena Knows (2023)

As her Parkinson's disease progresses, a woman leads a relentless investigation into finding those responsible for the sudden death of her daughter. ...

Offering (2023)

The year 2023 marks the 35th anniversary of the association La Mujer y el Cine, and 43 female directors have come together to deliver a fragment of their gaze, a frame, an aesthetic and ethical decision, a tribute to women who anticipated the struggle. A l ...

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 ...

The Photographer: Murder in Pinamar (2022)

The murder of photographer José Luis Cabezas in the summer of 1997 deeply shakes Argentina, and ends up revealing a mafia scheme in which the political and economic powers appear to be involved. ...

Archivo de la Memoria Trans (2021)

The Trans Memory Archive gathers the images and stories of trans women for more than 50 years, preserving the memory of those who suffered the outrages of the police, the abandonment of the State and the hostility of the society that witnessed, indolent, a ...

Crónica De Una Tormenta (2021)

Bitácoras (2021)

A series of five short films made by five outstanding film directors that narrate in the first person their creative processes, their environment and their experience of 2020 and the pandemic. Ways of creating, territory, memory and autobiography in works ...

Killing the Dead (2019)

Paraguay 1978, during Stroessner's dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem ...

Happy Hour: Verdades e Consequências (2018)

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 ...

A Twelve-Year Night (2018)

Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years. ...

The Last Suit (2017)

Cranky, crafty and always immaculately dressed, aged master tailor Abraham Bursztein finds himself facing his winter years in a retirement home after discovering his children have sold his home out from under him. Not one to go quietly, Abraham unexpectedl ...

The Desert Bride (2017)

Teresa's life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman. ...

At the End of the Tunnel (2016)

A paraplegic computer engineer who moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers. ...

Salgán & Salgán (2015)

An intimate portrait of the relationship between Horacio Salgán, a legendary 98-year-old tango pianist, and his son César, also a pianist, who plays his father's music in his shadow. They recently met again, after 18 years without seeing each other. Just ...

Eva Doesn't Sleep (2015)

In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Juan Perón to preserve her body for display, and Argentines flocked to be near "Evita". Three years later, ...

Sunstrokes (2014)

A group of girlfriends gather almost every day to sunbathe in the terrace of a building, in an age where getting the perfect tan was everything. ...

Betibú (2014)

Once Pedro Chazarreta found murdered in the wonderful gated, El Tribuno newspaper hires retired detective novelist Nurit Iscar/Betibù that is installed in the area and a series of newspaper columns about the case. Along with the Chief of police of the new ...

Thesis on a Homicide (2013)

Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. ...

Everybody Has a Plan (2012)

Pedro, a humble beekeeper who lives in the mysterious Argentinian region of the Delta del Tigre, travels to Buenos Aires to visit his twin brother Agustín, a successful but troubled pediatrician with marital issues, to give him bad news and ask him for a ...

A cicatriz branca (2012)

In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of women left alone in Galicia towards America. Many of them were illegal, with papers that falsified their age and even their identity. Common stories like Merce's, no place to go nor to go. In addition to ...

No Return (2010)

A thriller centered on a man who is accused of a crime he didn't commit. ...

Night Runner (2009)

Eduardo, manager of an insurance company, is under a lot of stress and that's why he runs, especially when he is about to explode. ...

The Widows of Thursdays (2009)

The closed community of a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident. ...

The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed's rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to mak ...

Los 100 días que no conmovieron al mundo (2009)

Que parezca un accidente (2008)

A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter. ...

Si Sos Brujo: A Tango Story (2008)

The compelling story of a group of young Argentine musicians racing against time to learn and preserve the elegant and nuanced music played by the legendary Golden Age tango orchestras of Buenos Aires in the 40's and 50's. ...

Small Country (2008)

Two young people learn about love as politics turn their world upside down in this drama from director Ana Diez. After a long and successful career as a soccer player, Xavi retires from the game and moves to Spain, where one day to his surprise he happens ...

City in Heat (2007)

A group of friends in their 30's meet at a bar in Buenos Aires everyday. They used to hang here as students, laughing at the world, and now they still dream of changing the world from the cafe's table. Unable discuss politics or football, the only thing th ...

Cheese Head (2006)

It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the spo ...

Hermanas (2005)

Argentinian sisters Elena and Natalia, who were separated, meet again in Texas in 1984. ...

Los Muertos (2004)

Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. A deep mystery surrounds him. ...

Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa (2002)

This documentary deconstructs the life of my father, Carlos Ragone, based on his work as a photographer and photojournalist: father and daughter, photographs and audiovisuals, memory and imagination intertwine. ...

Che: muerte de la utopia? (1999)

What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define their concept of utopia? ...

Historias Breves 3 (1999)

La media medalla (1999)

The trauma of a past war can destroy a future life. ...

Ayvu-Pora, las bellas palabras (1998)

A film crew arrives at the Guaraní village of Tamanduá, in the heart of the missionary jungle, and proposes its inhabitants to make a documentary together. ...

Buenos Aires viceversa (1996)

This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. ...

Historias Breves 0 (1993)

Film composed of nine short films. Short Stories 0, was released in 1993 and did not yet have that name because they were separate shorts. It would later become the prestigious annual short film competition for directors organized and produced by INCAA. ...

Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae (1993)

Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, "Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls", tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers. ...

El cine a través de la música (2019)

Tribute documentary on the relationship between music and image in the cinema, as a constitutive part of it, with great musical moments in Argentine films together with the words of those who compose and direct. ...

Fatherland (2011)

Fatherland brings a rigorous structural approach to a site of monuments that is also a place of movement, criss-crossed daily by tourists and locals. The grounds are laid out like city blocks, with wide avenues branching onto laneways filled with elaborate ...