Movies: Lorenzo Quinteros

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnapp...

Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father....

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War....

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himsel...

Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33....

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A group of friends transform into ninjas when a curious situation arises....

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In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them....

Ariel Llanarte, writer and journalist forced to live abroad, decides to return to the country. He has the purpose of finding out the reason why his best friend disappeared....

A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská....

Close-up to a man who censored films during the military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato....

A manager of a Santa Fe bank, who apparently leads a normal life with his wife, actually has a lover in Paraná, as well as a terrible relationship with his father, a retired military man who became an executive of a multinational in Buenos Aires....

This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past...

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government....

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Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a...

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