Movies: Miguel Colombo

Self-assured, mysterious, and captivating Linda agrees to work at an affluent home in Buenos Aires. Her charm sparks strong sexual attraction among all members of the family, exposing how fragile their externally happy veneer really is....

Carlos parks in reverse, as fast as he can. He gets out of the car carrying a bag, opens the door of a house with his keys, but doesn’t go in. He locks it and rings the doorbell. Once, twice. Until a 15-year-old boy appears. Together they will do wha...

April 5, 2000, Concordia, Entre Ríos. Two major media outlets broadcast live from the most impoverished city in the country, where a guerrilla group is preparing to "go to war" against the established order....

Nina is a 16-year-old girl who lives in a rural neighborhood of Oberá (Misiones, Argentina). She works on the farm and in the village to support her family, which prevents her from attending school. One day, she is enticed to travel to the capital by...

A man travels to the Argentine north following the leads of a mythical pre-Columbian entity in charge of the relatives’ sorrow. The roads at night, the inns and the large salina of Zelarayán’s poem reject anthropological shortcuts and build up a myst...

A medieval heresy and the first Protestant church in history, the Waldenses are both an 850-year-old peasant community and a current that in recent decades has challenged the Vatican on issues such as gay marriage, euthanasia and abortion....

An intimate geographic route where the director narrates in first person the story of his grandfather Ludovico, an Italian arrived in Argentina after fighting in World War II. With very few clues begin to map the features of a grandfather he never kn...

Iván Bilbao has just spent 5 years in prison. Upon his release, he is reunited with his wife Yamila, his daughter Luz, and Chascomùs, his hometown, where his reputation is notorious. Eager to settle down, he resumes boxing and pawnbroking. Pedro Sper...

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...

In an intimate and geographical journey, the director tells in the first person the story of his grandfather Ludovico, an Italian who arrived in Argentina after fighting in World War II and who soon reveals himself disturbingly contradictory. His tra...

Dr. Vladimir Roslik was born and raised in the town of San Javier, founded by Russian immigrants on the banks of the Uruguay River, and graduated as a doctor in Moscow in the late 1960s during the Cold War. He later decided to return to his small tow...

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At a maximum security prison, a boxer searches for his freedom and receives advice from the leader of the cell block , along with a group of young men who want to be millionaires and another one who has just been imprisoned for murder. The director o...

Diana Rutkus was born a nomad, but she learned this only years later. The daughter of a tightrope walker and trapeze artist mother and a lion tamer and drummer father, Diana spent her childhood between the circus tent and the trailer. Cirquera thus e...

The documentary Rastrojero, Utopías de la Argentina Potencia (Rastrojero, Utopias of the Power of Argentina) tells the story of Eduardo, who travels in his Rastrojero truck to the same Córdoba that fifty years ago employed him at IME (State Mechanica...

Image and imagination; sight and blindness; memory and hearing; fiction and reality. Like a puzzle, the documentary assembles the sensory experiences of seven people with varying degrees of vision, broadening our understanding of the role of the sens...

Graziele was born on a small island located in the south of Rio de Janeiro. As her mother died when she was just one year old and her father was always an absent figure, she was raised by her older sister and her grandparents, next to an evangelical ...

A recurring nightmare immerses the filmmaker into a visual research in the first person. Beginning with the 1955 bombing of Buenos Aires, the film elaborates a disturbing essay about violence. Combining a variety of different materials the director f...