Miguel Abal

Movies

Proyecto Parque Patagonia
Cinematography
Dolores
Director of Photography
DOLORES tells the story of a young woman of Scottish descent who returns to the Argentine pampas after her sister dies, to take care of her eight-year-old nephew- but drawn also by the juvenile love she still feels for her English brother-in-law, Jack. Her love story develops in the context of the onset of World War II: while the echoes of war get ever closer, the dispute between Germans and Anglos turns personal when Dolores is seduced by a neighbouring landowner of German descent, Octavio Brandt- he becomes an unexpected love, and from now on Dolores is torn between Octavio and Jack, as Argentina changes for ever. In a society dominated by men, Dolores must now also forge her unique destiny.
Tiro de gracia
Cinematography
Marriage
Director of Photography
Esteban and Molly have been married for over twenty years. On a cold morning in June the couple realizes they have hit rock bottom and that their relationship is not what it once was. Marriage examines the different aspects that make a man and a woman click, those moments where a bond can become harder than a rock, but it will also illustrate the downfalls and all the little things that make a relationship worth fighting for.
Violeta Went to Heaven
Camera Operator
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Belgrano: The Movie
Cinematography
It focuses on the last ten years of life of the hero, creator of the Argentine flag. In 1810, Manuel Belgrano believes that it is possible to replace the royal authority - that of Fernando VII prisoner of the Napoleonic troops - with the community of virtuous men who, identified with the Homeland, fluently interpret the People.
A Fly in the Ashes
Cinematography
Two close girlfriends come to Buenos Aires from the Northwest looking for a better future, but they are victims of a hoax and should work in a brothel. There, one of them will adapt to survive and the other will try to flee.
The Hairy Tooth Fairy
Cinematography
Lucía, an active little girl, looses a tooth. Santiago, her father, is an out-of-work boss, and her mother, Pilar, is a successful but overworked architect, reassure Lucía, by telling her that the Hairy Tooth Fairy (a mouse named Pérez) will come to her bedroom to collect her tooth, leaving some money in its place. A mouse who had been monitoring the situation tells another mouse, who in turn tells another mouse until finally the news reaches Pérez, The Hairy Tooth Fairy, who lives in a boat in the port along with hundreds of other mice. They receive the teeth that he collects, and then clean, shape and polish them so that they can be transformed into shiny round pearls. These pearls are then carried through the citys sewers until finally they reach the jewellers owned by Morientes, where an old friend exchanges them for their weight in gold.
Debt
Director of Photography
DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hunger of Barbara Flores, an eight-year-old Argentinean girl. Buenos Aires, Washington, the IMF, the World Bank and Davos; corruption and the international bureaucratic lack of interest.
Cachimba
Camera Operator
A man takes his insecure, overweight paramour to a seaside resort to consummate their relationship, but there he stumbles onto an artistic discovery that will change his life.
Cachimba
Director of Photography
A man takes his insecure, overweight paramour to a seaside resort to consummate their relationship, but there he stumbles onto an artistic discovery that will change his life.
Erreway: 4 caminos
Director of Photography
Erreway is trying to get famous in Argentina, but a few suprises on the road makes it a little hard...
Vivir intentando
Director of Photography
Viri is a trendy bar waitress, Lissa works in a supermarket and sings hip-hop, Valeria veterinary studies, Yvonne tries to find a place in the world of music and Lourdes does tattoos on the premises of his brother Pogo. The idea of forming a pop group. When the group finally consolidates, an internal problem threatens to dissolve before the debut. But girls are not the same: the time spent together taught them that despite the differences there is none can separate because they are united by something that goes beyond the simple desire to sing.
The Airship
Cinematography
A French woman arrives in Montevideo, to meet poet Juan Carlos Onetti and investigate the story of the city. She is intrigued by the photograph of the day when president Bordaz was killed and a zeppelin flew above the city at the turn of the century. She is helped by a photographer and both fall into a police intrigue.
Distant encounters.
Cinematography
Killing Grandpa
Cinematography
Maese trotamundos
Director of Photography
¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida... que no te puedo encontrar?
Director of Photography
A woman and a man known through a radio program dedicated to unite in their lone pairs listeners.
La redada
Director of Photography
Loraldia - El tiempo de las flores
Director of Photography
El eco
Cinematography