Leonardo Favio

Once Upon a Time there was a Wizard

Leonardo Favio’s final years are captured through the eyes of his daughter in an intimate and revealing journey. As Favio recreates his masterpiece, Aniceto, remake of Este es el romance del Aniceto y la Francisca… Interviews between father and daughter unveil a rich story of creativity, legacy and deep relationship. In this documentary, the camera becomes a silent witness to the interaction between Favio and his daughter, offering a privileged look into the mind of the artist and the man behind the genius. The conversations span memories, reflections on art and life, exploring Favio’s duality as filmmaker and father.

Toby and the Magic Book

A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into reality. With the characters in his stories, he will share adventures that bring him closer to fulfilling his greatest desire, which is to have a mother.

Gatica multitudes

A documentary short about the making of Gatica, el mono by argentine director Leonardo Favio. This film focuses on the particular way of directing that Favio had in big set pieces with huge crowds.

Fuiste mía un verano

The life of a young artist from his childhood to his triumph.

The Dependent

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

Martín Fierro

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

The Eavesdropper

When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he reports them to the police. In his adventure, he leaves behind a girlfriend and a lover, and ends up sharing his life with a disoriented girl.

Chronicle of a Boy Alone

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.

Paula Cautiva

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.

The Venerable Ones

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.

The Terrace

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.

Dar la cara

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.

El bruto

A woman realizes her husband's brutality while he's away and other men are after her.

The Hand in the Trap

This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.

Fin de fiesta

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.

Todo el año es Navidad

Film composed of different short stories, in which an envoy of God to the Earth (Raul Rossi) must help solving some small conflicts referring to human attitudes and relationships, such as solidarity, love and companionship.

In Burning Darkness

In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.

The Boss

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

The Kidnapper

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.

El ángel de España

A Spanish immigrant goes from delivery guy to successful singer.