María Villar

Mein Buch

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.

Isabella

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.

Yes, Over

A private detective spends her days in her car following a suspect she hardly ever sees. As she tries to make progress with the case, she reviews her closest ties. The unexpected appearance of Alicia, a neighbor, disrupts the investigation and her personal life.

Leónidas

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 sister María Angélica, godmother of director Miguel Colombo, who decides to leave her brother's legacy in the hands of her godson before she dies.

The Stolen Man

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.

The Inner Ear

After an accident, Lorenzo begins to hear a persistent ringing that profoundly alters his relationship with the world.

Flipper

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 have diamonds on top of him. Three absurd stories of love and crime around the popular machines.

Respirar

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 that he drowns, that he sinks deeper and deeper and can not get out of the water.

Tres valijas

Un Andantino

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 and is unforgiving.

You Burn Me

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 herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.

Cynthia todavía tiene las llaves

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

A Day Cut Short

As the day begins, a woman sets out to go about her routine, until she decides to take her children to the cemetery to see zombies. When she returns home, this interruption in her day will leave her with a strange and magical feeling.

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe

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.

Viola

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

The Heart of Europe

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 Silver Mask (Myriam) and the two disturbing theatre masks, muses of comedy and tragedy, split into Esther and Diana. The characters are trapped in an enigmatic time tunnel and their only escape is to find the heart of Europe, recalling their respective pasts linked to the Old Continent and bringing to the surface the deepest ghosts and fears that each of them hides.

La Flor

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…

Hermia & Helena

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 postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.

The Little Match Girl

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 stage an insane opera; the problems of Marie, Walter and their daughter, who are trying to survive on very little money…

Everyone Lies

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 Princess of France

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”.

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

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 our civilization conceives death. Taking charge of preparing this farewell while their mother is still alive will be a mysterious and revealing way to be together.

Rosalinda

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.

About Buenos Aires

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 presence at that than as a precise geography. None of those scenes contains a single "story": Each one of them is part of a larger situation that we cannot see, as though the beginning and end of each "story" had to be filled in by the audience.