Movies: Gustavo Fontán

  • 2014
    Intervened Events

    Intervened Events (2014)

    Intervened Events

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    The omnibus feature SUCESOS INTERVENIDOS consists of shorts by a who’s who of Argentine documentary and experimental-film giants, including Edgardo Cozarinsky and Gustavo Fontán but also Claudio Caldini, Andrés Di Tella and Gabriela Golder. Each one ...

    Intervened Events
  • 2007
    El árbol

    El árbol (2007)

    El árbol

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    An elderly couple debates whether to cut down an ancient acacia tree that has witnessed the major memories of our lives....

    El árbol
  • 2019
    The Debt

    The Debt (2019)

    The Debt

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    Mónica did not make a client's payments of the office where she works. The missing 15K pesos not only commit her but also a colleague, who is the one who discovers the fault. It seems that is not the first time that this happens, but the colleague, ...

    The Debt
  • 2008
    Construcción de una ciudad

    Construcción de una ciudad (2008)

    Construcción de una ciudad

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    The story of the rebirth of Federación, Argentina that in 1974 was flooded by the waters of the Uruguay River and subsequently destroyed by the government to be relocated and rebuild, told by its characters....

    Construcción de una ciudad
  • 2012
    La casa

    La casa (2012)

    La casa

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    In the house where several gererations used to live no one is living anymore At least apparently. Because if any one intensifies hearing and view, he can see He sees the footprints of formers inhabitants. He sees the marks of life and death in the de...

    La casa
  • 1996
    Historias Breves II: Abrigo

    Historias Breves II: Abrigo (1996)

    Historias Breves II: Abrigo

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    Ana loses her mother after a sudden heart attack. He tries to avoid his feelings by feigning indifference. He doesn't stop doing anything he always did, until a message, left by his mother in a radio message box before she died, is accidentally delet...

    Historias Breves II: Abrigo
  • 2010
    April elegy

    April elegy (2010)

    April elegy

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    The poet Salvador Merlino didn’t live to see published April’s elegy, his last book, as he died when it was still in the printing press. His daughter Mary (72) and his son, Carlos (74), kept the parcels of copies of their father’s book stashed away...

    April elegy
  • 2017
    Corralón

    Corralón (2017)

    Corralón

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    Juan and Ismael are great friends, they work in a corralón in Moreno. Riding the truck they go through the winter and live with the harshness of work, they do it with humor, sometimes helped by alcohol. Friendship is a difficult wall to break between...

    Corralón
  • 2013
    Germania

    Germania (2013)

    Germania

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    A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina....

    Germania
  • 2003
    The Southern Cross

    The Southern Cross (2003)

    The Southern Cross

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    Nora and Javier have been hired to transport a shipment of cocaine in an ambulance. With the help of Wendy, Javier's transvestite brother, they rob a part of the shipment and escape from the police. Moulded by loneliness, indifference and a lack of c...

    The Southern Cross
  • 2023
    The Bus Station

    The Bus Station (2023)

    The Bus Station

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    Bathed in the half-light, a bus station north of Cordoba in Argentina. Waiting, and the arrivals and departures of the local buses punctuate the lives of these workers and travellers. Far from making an observational documentary, Gustavo Fontán craft...

    The Bus Station
  • 2003
    Donde cae el sol

    Donde cae el sol (2003)

    Donde cae el sol

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    A story between a 65 years old man and a woman who is thirty years younger that him. The film, explores the human relationships through fully identifiable human beings, taking also into account the prejudices, the lust of life and all those everyday ...

    Donde cae el sol
  • 2009
    La madre

    La madre (2009)

    La madre

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    Sonia (45) and Jonatan (18), mother and son, share the house: a place for the mother's grief, a place for the son to escape. The husband is absent, gone, and attempts to find him lead nowhere. The son will leave at any moment. Anguish clouds the hour...

    La madre
  • 2016
    The Regal Lemon Tree

    The Regal Lemon Tree (2016)

    The Regal Lemon Tree

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    A family gets together for New year. Three sisters and their families who live by the river. One of them does not attend because she is still in mourning. Her sisters and her nieces try to convince her but she remains firm in her refusal....

    The Regal Lemon Tree
  • 2021
    El piso del viento

    El piso del viento (2021)

    El piso del viento

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    A couple builds a space to live. When it is finished, before inhabiting it, they invite a group of people to visit it. The invited people circulate individually through this new and empty space. They look, they walk, they talk. The film tries to resc...

    El piso del viento
  • 2021
    Luz de agua

    Luz de agua (2021)

    Luz de agua

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    "Several times a day, for many months, I went out to the terrace of my house to look at the terrace next door, which is the terrace of a nursing home. I went out as soon as I got up and before going to bed, as in a ritual. And soon, over the course o...

    Luz de agua
  • 2002
    La fe del volcán

    La fe del volcán (2002)

    La fe del volcán

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    Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener....

    La fe del volcán
  • 2024
    Los ríos

    Los ríos (2024)

    Los ríos

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    A man knocks on my door. I ask him what he needs. He doesn't answer. He looks at me for a few moments, with enormous eyes. He looks at me as one looks at an apparition. Rivers are born in that silence, in those hallucinated eyes, and they unfold a me...

    Los ríos
  • 2013
    The Face

    The Face (2013)

    The Face

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    A man in a small boat reaches an island on the Paraná River. He heads towards a site where there used to be a house or small village. Now there is nothing. Slight signs of something old and lost: the place where he was born. His presence allows the t...

    The Face
  • 2002
    Marechal, o la batalla de los ángeles

    Marechal, o la batalla de los ángeles (2002)

    Marechal, o la batalla de los ángeles

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    The life of the writer Leopoldo Marechal through various testimonies collected at the Café Izmir, where Adán Buenosayres and his bar met, and which closed its doors a while ago in Villa Crespo, which includes the dramatization of some fragments of hi...

    Marechal, o la batalla de los ángeles