Sebastián Muro

The Klezmer Project

A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Jorge Polaco

Life and work of the controversial Argentine film director Jorge Polaco who questioned all moral institutions, exposing himself to the most scandalous media ridicule and risking his vulnerability. Is it possible to evade legitimation? Does the era of the algorithm allow that gap through which these singularities were previously filtered?

El perfil de Lisa

Is it that serious to have only one lemon in the fridge? Is it an unimportant coincidence or is it a sign of something else? Lisa asks herself what she did wrong with Juan, who got upset the night he went to her place and there was nothing to eat.

The Barbarians

18-year-old Nacho shows up at the cow-breeding ranch of his father, Marcos, whom he barely knows. His father is worried because, as the ranch’s yearly auction is approaching, several cows are dying without explanation. When Nacho finds out who is killing the cows and why, he understands the magnitude of the problem. Cornered by distress and confusion, he’ll have to choose: being a boss or not being a boss. Perpetuating the system, the insult, the abuse, or refusing to take part in it.

Nothing But the Sun

Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies. In an attempt to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture, Mateo walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region, and registers on cassettes the experiences of other Ayoreo who, like him, were born in the vast forest, free and nomadic, without any contact with white civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs and their home.

Rafa, His Dad and Me

Sebastian Muro, the director of this film, starts shooting his father, Rafa, an extroverted businessman, for a film school exercise. Hypnotized by the easiness and indifference his father has with the camera, Sebastian continues shooting him without much purpose until, without him noticing, he starts telling his own family story and stumbles upon an unsettled matter: the absence of his father during nearly a decade when Sebastian was a boy.

Let the Lights Move Away

A cat wandering among the pastures, the sparks that emerge among the red embers of a fire, a man walking under the shadow of high trees in the middle of a forest, a distant fire, the ghostly figure of firemen at night: these are some of the minimal postcards that make up the enormous beauty of the Manantiales mountains, in the outskirts of Córdoba, Argentina.