Hugo Santiago

In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel du centaure.


A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then must pursuit him in a labyrinthic city.

A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then must pursuit him in a labyrinthic city.

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.

James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodyguard. When Millar arrives at the criminal's French hideaway, the gangster is already dead. Among the people Millar investigates are the gangster's brother, the man's sister-in-law, and their teenage daughter. A judge may also offer insight into the case, as well as Millar's own past.

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the training, the first years remained till now in a vaguely legendary and imprecise blur. Thanks to many investigations that concern as many places as times, thanks to journeys back in time through the towns and regions, the film seeks the origins of Maria Bethânia’s voice and style. Helped and led by Bethânia herself, with the assistance of Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the two princes of Brazilian music, along with the complicity of the great Gilberto Gil, the author is allowed to go to the first context : the North-East. In the family home in Santo Amaro, the film finally touches the childhood of Maria Bethânia – and her brother Caetano, and this mysterious point – from which the music radiates.

How to make a film about a writer? How to show in pictures the work of a man who insists on disappearing? Several thinkers comment on the figure and work of a key intellectual in 20th century literature and thought.

Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez.

Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.

Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.

Mise-en-scène of the classic tragedy of Sofocles, carried out by Antoine Vitez in the National Theatre of Chaillot

Um marinheiro bêbado conta a odisseia surrealista da história de sua vida a um estudante assassino.

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are also interviewed

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.

A cidade de Aquilea foi sitiada por invasores sinistros. Um grupo de homens de meia idade está determinado a resistir a eles e a defender a cidade. São organizadas reuniões clandestinas, os planos são feitos e estratégias são propostas… mas será que é realmente possível combater uma invasão?

A cidade de Aquilea foi sitiada por invasores sinistros. Um grupo de homens de meia idade está determinado a resistir a eles e a defender a cidade. São organizadas reuniões clandestinas, os planos são feitos e estratégias são propostas… mas será que é realmente possível combater uma invasão?

A cidade de Aquilea foi sitiada por invasores sinistros. Um grupo de homens de meia idade está determinado a resistir a eles e a defender a cidade. São organizadas reuniões clandestinas, os planos são feitos e estratégias são propostas… mas será que é realmente possível combater uma invasão?

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, durante a Guerra dos Cem Anos. Após ser capturada por soldados franceses pertencentes a uma facção oposta, Joana of Arc, Dama de Orleans, é injustamente julgada por um tribunal eclesiástico supervisionado por seus inimigos ingleses.