Rafael Federman

Rafael Federman

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Rafael Federman

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Society of the Snow
Eduardo Strauch Urioste
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Matadero
An American filmmaker arrives in the Argentinian pampa to film Matadero: a founding narrative of class struggle where a group of laborers slaughter their bosses like cattle. It is 1974, the violent persecution of the left has just begun in Argentina, and the young actors in the film are on the verge of taking a leap into full time clandestine militancy.
The New Girl
Mariano
Jimena travels to Río Grande, on the island of Tierra del Fuego in southernmost Argentina, to join her half-brother Mariano. She has almost no money to travel but manages to arrive there hoping to have a better life in that manufacturing region. The wind, the cold and the complex economic crisis form the background against in which Jimena will develop empathy for the people around her and a feeling of belonging there, but also a place where she will learn to know herself better.
If I Were the Winter Itself
Four friends meet on a remote estate to create a cinematic re-enactment of three iconic works that embodied the social and artistic revolution of 50 years ago.
The Enormous Presence of Death
After receiving his last wage and sending it off to his home country, a house painter deliberately abandons his mobile phone on a park bench. Shortly after, a girl finds it and decides to keep it. She takes it as a sign sent directly to her that reveals the presence of the dead. A contemporary ghost story.
The Sleepwalkers
Alejo
Tensions arise in a family while they are on their summer holiday in Argentina.
Rojo
Santiago
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
Princesita
Pablo
Twelve-year-old Tamara lives within a cult that is ruled by the beliefs of its leader Miguel, who becomes obsessively convinced that Tamara is the "chosen one". But when she falls in love with a classmate, Tamara's relationship gets in the way of Miguel's objective, and he will seek her absolute obedience.
The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis
Lucho
Buenos Aires, 1977. In the midst of the dictatorship, a man receives information of the whereabouts or two people who are being searched by the military. Now he has the chance to save them, although that means risking his own life.
Sinfonía para Ana
Lito
Based on real events, the life and struggles of a student of the Buenos Aires National College during Argentina's worst dictatorship.
Two Shots Fired
Mariano
Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a woman to join his medieval wind ensemble.
Un cuadro japonés