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María Alché
Born April 23, 1983 · Buenos Aires, Argentina (age 43)
María Alché (born 23 April 1983; Buenos Aires) is an Argentian actress, director, scriptwriter, who starred in "The Holy Girl" by Lucrecia Martel (2004). Her first feature film "A Family Submerged" premiered in Filmmakers of the Present at Locarno Festival 2018 and won the Horizons Award at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2018, Best Screenplay at Lima Latin American Film Festival 2019, …
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The Faculties · 2019The Faculties
★ 8.02019
MovieDocumentary
Students of different careers prepare to take final exams. Botany, anatomy, sociology, medieval philosophy, criminal law, morphology, theoretical physics and piano. Each one uses their own abilities to cope with the situation of oral exposure, the most common evaluative practice in the National Universities of Argentina. Throughout the waiting moments in the halls, between the drama and the absurdity of each exam, the subjects begin to find unexpected relationships.
Easy Sex, Sad Movies · 2014Easy Sex, Sad Movies
★ 5.52014
MovieComedy
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pablo, a screenwriter, is hired to write a new romantic comedy.
Our Land · 2026Our Land
★ 7.82026
MovieDocumentary
In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free. The film combines the voices and photographs of the community with courtroom footage to explore the long history of colonialism and land dispossession that led to this crime.
El malestar · 2022El malestar
★ 5.02022
MovieDocumentary
Puan · 2023Puan
★ 6.42023
MovieComedy
When Marcelo Pena finally is about to be appointed Head of the Philosophy Department, the famous and seductive Professor Sujarchuk returns from Europe to claim the kingdom for himself.
The Holy Girl · 2004The Holy Girl
★ 6.62004
MovieDrama
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
Chuquiragua · 2016Chuquiragua
2016
MovieDramaThriller
Agustín escaped to the moor to finish his thesis, he spends his days writing, feeding himself and giving small walks through a place covered by scrubland, steep cliffs and abyss that remain hidden behind an almost permanent fog. Everything changes when Lucía and her boyfriend Santiago arrive and set up their tent next to Augustín’s. What began as a few quiet days in the countryside gradually become a silent nightmare.
Tres Cinematecas · 2022Tres Cinematecas
2022
MovieDocumentary
The ghosts of a 19th-century slaughterhouse haunt the Cinemateca Brasileira: where cows once died, films now end up. Montevideo's former Central Market houses the Cinemateca Uruguaya. A power plant now houses the Museo de Cine de Buenos Aires. This triptych portrays and connects three film archives through architecture and the buildings' interaction with urban life.
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