Pablo Sigal

'이사벨라'는 셰익스피어 고전 속 인물을 매개로 동시대 아르헨티나 여성들의 삶을 이야기해 온 마티아스 피녜이로의 희곡 연작, 그 다섯 번째 작품이다. 마리에는 연극 '자에는 자로 MEASURE BY MEASURE'의 이사벨라 역 오디션을 준비 중이다. 그는 돈이 급해 한동안 연락을 끊었던 형제를 다시 찾고 그 과정에서 그의 애인 루시아나와 만난다. 그런데 둘은 같은 오디션을 준비 중임을 알게 되고, 함께 대사와 움직임을 연습한다. 1년 뒤 예상치 못한 모습으로 다시 만난 그들은 각자의 결심이 만들어낸 행동의 결과를 나눈다. 시간이 교차하는 가운데, 이야기는 인생의 색을 맞추는 퍼즐처럼 펼쳐진다.

Lola, a young playwright and drama director, goes into a crisis before her new play is released. Her leading actress raises time and again that she has problems with the text. A friend of her, a visual artist, moves to her home after discovering an affair and her ex-boyfriend claims copyright. Lola doubts about her own play and struggles between moving forward in the chaos or give it up. She needs to find the true meaning of what she is doing to justify herself.

Jesus and Maria José live together in the grand house that belonged to their recently deceased father. Their playful routine is disrupted when Magdalena, their half sister on their dad’s side, returns from Spain asking for her share of the inheritance. What are they going to do about this interloper into their dangerous folie à deux?

Romina returns to her roots to rediscover who she is. After the first overwhelming years as a mother, it's as if the mist starts to rise: she's a little too old for disco parties and hanging round with twenty-somethings, but still young enough to fantasise about others. Actress Romina Paula points the camera at herself, her son and her mother in this intriguing mixture of documentary and fiction.

As a child, Lucas falls in love with Ana. His story is truncated: she moves away and he loses track of her. Today Lucas does crossword puzzles and has almost zero love-sexual life. Meanwhile, his friend Santiago has a blind date with Verónica that ends after a few seconds. Verónica's neighbor is in a secret and quite toxic relationship.

In a snowy and industrial city in the south of Argentina, Paula, a 23-year-old girl from Buenos Aires, starts an intense job hunt with the sole purpose of saving money. The lack of a job, a home and a stable emotional environment will end up turning that search into a personal and introspective journey.

Jazmín, a young woman living in Mexico City, is nonplussed when she receives a call informing her that her father Toussaint, an illegal Haitian immigrant, is ill. She hasn't seen him in years, and does not know why they are calling her. When she finally gets to the hospital and discovers that her father is suffering from vascular dementia, she finds herself faced with the task of caring for a man who is more a stranger than a father to her.

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.

A year after his father’s death, Victor returns to Buenos Aires in order to reconquer the life he was forced to abandon. He brings a new project with him for his former theater company: a radio-play of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost”.

Deep in the forest a group of five friends wander around like a lion herd. Lost in their word games, they play and seduce each other while going back and forth into adulthood territory, in a desperate search to avoid their already written story.

Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

A young couple. A luxurious hotel room. A wedding party.

A young couple. A luxurious hotel room. A wedding party.

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.

Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them that they did not feel before. Maybe it will be the last summer of their childhood, maybe it will be the last summer of the three of them together.