Oscar Martínez

Oscar Martínez

Birth : 1949-10-23, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Oscar Martínez

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Official Competition
Iván Torres
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
Murciélagos
Live Twice, Love Once
Emilio
A retired academic teacher tries to find the love of his youth after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
I Miss You
Jorge
Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two battle over Jorge’s inability to accept his son, Sebastian channels his grief into a bold new play in honor of his lost love, in which Gabriel’s inner turmoil is transformed into an eye-popping gay fantasia.
The Weasel's Tale
Norberto Imbert
A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.
Me, Myself and My Dead Wife
Bernardo
Bernardo is a renowned architect and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He just buried his wife, refusing to fulfill her desire to be cremated and her ashes scattered into “Costa del Sol”. Only when his wife’s grave is desecrated, he decides to take the trip to Spain. With Abel, owner of a bankrupt real estate business, and Amalia, a beautiful public relations employee, Bernardo will be involved in absurd situations to get rid of the ashes of his wife. Bernardo will discover that he didn’t know his wife as much as he imagined.
Blood Will Tell
Elías
Thriller about a family whose ties are put to the test when the patriarch’s wife dies.
Dark Buildings (A Crack in the Wall)
Nelson Jara
When the beautiful Leonor arrives at the architecture studio Borla y Asociados looking for Nelson Jara, both Mario Borla and his partner Marta Hovart and Pablo Simó, the building's oldest architect, claim to ignore that name completely. But they all lie. The truth begins to unravel through the memories of Pablo Simó. Pablo should carry out the unpleasant job of dealing with Nelson Jara, an indignant owner of the building adjoining a work of the studio, damaged by a crack in the wall of his living room caused by an error in the construction. But the fear and nervousness that provokes in the three involved the arrival of Leonor and her question "what happened to Nelson Jara?" Show something much darker and more suspicious. (FILMAFFINITY)
Toc Toc
Federico
Toc Toc follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD dated at the same time.
The Distinguished Citizen
Daniel Mantovani
After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worse idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!
Inseparables
Felipe
Felipe a wealthy businessman who has been quadriplegic, due to an accident, is looking for a therapeutic assistant. There are several highly qualified, but he decides to take the assistant of his gardener, Tito who has decided to resign.
Kóblic
Police Commissioner Velarde
Colonia Helena, Argentina. The mysterious Tomás Kóblic, a former Navy pilot, works as a fumigator while dealing with his dark past and the intrigues of the corrupt police commissioner…
El espejo de los otros
The Cenacle, a unique restaurant offers single-table work. In a ruined temple every night there is a last supper. Diners sitting at the table, define something important in their lives. Four stories plus the secret that bond the owners. Superb music.
Paulina
Fernando
Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. One night, after the second week working there, she's brutally assaulted by a gang. With the disapproval of the people around her, she decides to go back to work, in the neighborhood where she was attacked, without realizing that her attackers may be even closer than she thought.
Wild Tales
Mauricio (segment "La propuesta")
Six deadly stories that explore the extremities of human behaviour involving distressed people seeking revenge.
Empty Nest
Leonardo
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
La fiesta
Pedrito
Three bored roommates throw a wild weekend party full of love, sex and jealousy that will ultimately change their lives forever.
Berlin is in Germany
Enrique
When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.
Accomplices
Julio
Julio and El Polaco, in distant years, were inseparable friends in their hometown, near Necochea. The life of the first was governed by obedience to his mother, the despotism of his uncle and a style of honesty. El Polaco, on the other hand, was closer to marginalization and violence. Julio, turned into a businessman, takes root in the United States. The Pole continued his course in the place of those sometimes very cruel antics.
Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going
Oscar
A lonely film projectionist through a series of odd events, discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.
¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida... que no te puedo encontrar?
Fernández
A woman and a man known through a radio program dedicated to unite in their lone pairs listeners.
Tango: Our Dance
Voz en off
Documentary filmed in Buenos Aires that shows the importance of tango for Argentines, with dance scenes, voiceovers and interviews with professionals but also with other anonymous characters who find their form of expression in this music. The film was shot at a time of tango revival around the world.
Los dueños del silencio
Rodriguez
A Swedish journalist in Buenos Aires is about to reveal the circumstances surrounding the young Swedish-Argentine woman Lena Melin's disappearance. The military junta of Argentina is threatening to deport him.
The Inverted Cross
Carlos Samuel Torres.
Contar hasta diez
Ramón Vallejos
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 time of upheaval, after a military junta takes over Argentina in 1976, killing thousands of leftists and dissidents. Unlike many others, Ramon's father has political ties that matter, but that may not change Pedro's fate, which could be death -- or like some who have been tortured, worse than death. This film was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación
Federico Pinedo
Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.
The Rosales
Enzo
Film based on the real case of the sinking of the cazatorpedera "La Rosales", Navy Argentina, occurred in 1892 on the coast of Uruguay. In that event only saved from death the captain and the officers, raising more suspicions.
The Truce
Jaime
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
The Bomb-thrower Teacher
The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.
La gran ruta
A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.