Nicolás Avruj

Movies

Coven
Co-Producer
French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.
Maternal
Executive Producer
Lu and Fati are teen mums living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows. But the girls’ impending motherhood faces her with a challenging situation.
The Lunchroom
Producer
Lila and Marcela have always worked on the cleaning staff of a state office. They know its nooks and crannies better than anyone, and have found a way to support themselves - and a dream - running a clandestine kitchen in an abandoned corner of the building. But times change: a new director arrives, spouting cynical speeches full of clichés with a fistful of empty promises. The kitchen is closed and a wave of redundancies disrupts the precarious equilibrium in the office, making everyday tasks a struggle for survival.
Florianópolis Dream
Executive Producer
A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
The Waves
Producer
Alfonso is exhausted after working and goes to the beach. He goes into the water and starts this fantastic journey through his different vacations in life, meeting old girlfriends, childhood friends, his daughter and his loneliness.
My Friend from the Park
Executive Producer
While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.
NEY: Nosotros, ellos y yo
Director
NEY narrates in first person the trip that Nicholas Avruj made in the year 2000. The original itinerary consisted of a family vacation to Tel Aviv, but for a mixture of adventures and curiosity the director crossed to Gaza and West Bank.
Refugiado
Executive Producer
7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.
Refugiado
Producer
7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.
Beauty
Associate Producer
Set in the north of Argentina. Yolanda, a young girl of Wichi origin, tells in her native language (Wichi Lhämtes), the story of how, as a family maid in a "criollo" home, she has her hair unjustly cut: this is her most particular trait, her beauty. This event jeopardizes her cultural ties with the "criollo" world and defines her destiny.
The Invisible Eye
Producer
A teaching assistant at a private Buenos Aires school begins obsessively spying on her students in the early 1980s, as the public rises up against the military dictatorship.
Que sea rock
Editor
A look into Argentina's rock scene post-Cromañon's tragedy. It does not just present the most popular songs by soloists and bands featured in the film, but it goes backstage and shows the artists’ private world, how they write their music, where they live, how they became what they are and what their dreams are.
Que sea rock
Writer
A look into Argentina's rock scene post-Cromañon's tragedy. It does not just present the most popular songs by soloists and bands featured in the film, but it goes backstage and shows the artists’ private world, how they write their music, where they live, how they became what they are and what their dreams are.
Loving Maradona
Writer
What do they have in common a boy playing in a field of Villa Fiorito and the owner of a bar in Naples? What do they have in common 500 people celebrating Christmas on October 30 and 25 football fans showing their tattoos? They are all loving Maradona.
The Holy Girl: Making Of
Director
Making of documentary