Germán de Silva

Germán de Silva

Perfil

Germán de Silva

Filmes

The Last Heretic
Juan Conte is a world-renowned spokesman of the new atheism. After suffering a heart attack, he receives a transplant and a change in his personal life begins, opening up to the possibility of being in a couple for the first time. Juan will go on a journey of horror and pain, in which his vision of reality will be put to the test.
Chile '76
Diver
Chile, 1976. Carmen segue para sua casa de praia para supervisionar a reforma. Seu marido, filhos e netos vão e voltam durante as férias de inverno. Quando o padre da família pede que ela cuide de um jovem que ele abriga em segredo, Carmen pisa em territórios inexplorados, longe da vida tranquila a que está acostumada.
Camino al éxito
Eduardo
A Ira de Deus
Jefe de redacción
Convencida de que um famoso escritor está por trás das perdas trágicas que sofreu, Luciana pede a ajuda de um jornalista para revelar a verdade.
Vuelta al perro
Legions
Antonio Poyju
While evil forces descend on Argentina, humanity’s best hope, a once-legendary shaman is confined to an insane asylum, powerless to avert the demonic resurrection.
The Attachment Diaries
Ortiz
Argentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and offers to provide shelter in her house until the child is born. Their disturbed personalities will become intertwined in a strange and dangerous relationship.
Santa
The Dose
Gerardo
Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing.
Tomando estado
It's All In Your Head
A political thriller about child trafficking. Danger arises in Abril’s life (Diana Lamas), an apathetic and absent-minded accountant, after her cherished uncle Ángel (Mario Pasik) and her best friend from adolescence Guille (Carlos Portaluppi) turn up on New Year’s Eve. Both these presences turn out to be closely related to a judicial investigation into the dark secrets of Abril’s family, leading her up to the realization that her personal experience is deeply intertwined with politics. The struggle between justice and power will show that child trafficking is an omnipotent international business packed with accomplices.
Dois Papas
Father Yorio
A relação e as diferentes visões dos dois líderes mais importantes e poderosos da Igreja Católica na época, o Papa Bento XVI (Anthony Hopkins) e o Cardeal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce), que depois veio a ser o Papa Francisco.
Vida de Doleiro
Moacyr Souza
Humberto é um cambista que, para sobreviver em meio a sua ambição para fazer dinheiro, tem que pôr a prova o seu código de ética duvidoso e lidar com a corrupção política, o desastre econômico da Argentina e as reviravoltas do seu casamento absurdo.
Postman
Set in the late ‘90s, in the height of the privatizations and the increase in poverty, Postman closely follows Hernán, a young man full of illusions that gets a job at the Central Post Office. There, a colleague teaches him the codes of the trade, but the harsh reality will force him to break them.
A Flor
Giardina
As mesmas quatro actrizes ligam os seis episódios, divididos em quatro partes, que trespassam vários géneros cinematográficos deste filme argentino de Mariano Llinás com 13 horas e meia de duração. Do musical à série B, dos espiões aos filmes franceses antigos, com o melodrama ou o mistério pelo meio.
A oscuras
Juan
Lola tries not to drop her talent, threatened by the passage of time and the irreversible events that devastated her happiness. Ana, will try to survive a violent relationship with Victor that will bring her closer to the world of prostitution. Lucio hand in hand with cocaine addiction, will destroy its precarious humanity.
Marilyn
Carlos
Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Marilyn by the other teenagers in town, Marcos is a target for desire and discrimination.
Arpão
Germán Argüello
O sr. Arguello é diretor de uma escola. Diariamente, ele verifica as mochilas de todos os alunos em busca de algo comprometedor. Cata, uma estudante de 14 anos, sofre um acidente no lago. Arguello terá que cuidar da garota nas próximas horas enquanto localiza seus pais. Durante essa espera, se desenvolverá a história mais importante de suas vidas.
To the Desert
Le pisteur
Julia works as a waitress on the night shift of the Comodoro Rivadavia casino. There, she meets Gwynfor, a customer who offers an interesting work opportunity in the oil industry. And so, what starts out as a morning appointment, résumé in hand, becomes a nightmarish journey in the middle of the arid landscape of Patagonia, a space Ulises Rosell uses with the cinematic power of a western, with the inclemency of the sun and the darkness of night ravaging the protagonists. Inspired by the stories of captive women from the 19th century,
Zama
Indalecio
Don Diego de Zama é um magistrado espanhol do século XVIII esperando ser transferido do posto avançado para o qual foi rebaixado. Quando sua última esperança de partida não dá em nada, Zama se junta a uma expedição para localizar Vicuña Porto, um lendário fora-da-lei que pode ou não existir.
El aprendiz
Ernesto
La educación del Rey
Carlos Vargas
Escaping from his criminal baptism, Reynaldo Galíndez, called el Rey, breaks into the patio of the house where Carlos Vargas, a retired security guard, lives. Carlos proposes Reynaldo a deal: he will repair the damage caused and, in return, Carlos will not call the police.
The Forest Passage
Upon entering an abandoned house in the middle of the night, a girl and her father discover the body of a man who resembles the father. Their initial reaction is to flee the scene, but they decide to stay and begin to investigate the reasons behind this strange coincidence through a notebook found next to the body that is filled with writing.
No sabés con quién estás hablando
Romano
A group of working-class losers plot to give an old gypsy mobster a heart attack in order to recover a valuable car. They decide to build a monster to scare him to death. But they're looking for trouble.
Maldito seas Waterfall
Solitary and sometimes attacked by an asthmatic crisis, Roque Waterfall leads, at age 30, an unproductive life and, little or nothing at work, lives on a small family inheritance. His passion is to collect videos of Atlanta, the club of his loves, and in one of his few nocturnal outings he meets Hans, a German intellectual nihilist who is in Buenos Aires to make a documentary film about people who have nothing. But when he meets Roque he decides that his film will be about someone who does not do anything, of course he is not sure if he wants to show himself before the camera, and while trying to escape the director he meets Carla, whose charm stimulates him to interrupt his sedentary life .
El limonero real
Based on the novel by Argentine poet Juan José Saer, Gustavo Fontán’s beautiful film observes, over the course of a single day, three interrelated families who live around the Parana River. Wenceslao (Germán de Silva of Las acacias and Wild Tales) blames himself for his son’s death six years prior, but attempts to get his still-grieving wife to attend her sister’s New Year’s Eve party; she refuses, even after her nieces and other sisters join in the effort. Throughout, DP Diego Poleri captures the golden-hued radiance of the river during the day as spellbindingly as he does the charcoal-tinted night. -from http://www.filmlinc.org/
Contrasangre
Daniel, Juan Palomino is a security guard, he was once a policeman, and he would have liked to be a vigilante hero. But, far from it, his job is to take care of the buildings of others. The city will cross with Analía (Emilia Attias), a distant woman, obsessive and beautiful in a mysterious way. She avoids contact with men because she has been the victim of rape. That terrible past comes back when Julio, Esteban Meloni, a violent and obsessed man, gets out of jail. Between the three are weaving on the streets of the city a plot of passion and crime.
Los del suelo
Walter Medina
The Rotten Link
Sicilio
Prostitute Roberta lives with her retarded brother and demented mother in an Argentinian rural village. Mother warns Roberta that she can have sex with almost any man in the village, except one – because then she would be killed. However, this last candidate, Sicilio, has put his sights on her.
The Sky of the Centaur
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.
La huella en la niebla
O Patrão: Radiografia de um Crime
Armando
Um humilde homem encontra trabalho como açougueiro na cidade grande. Seu patrão é um homem sinistro, que o obriga a vender carnes em mau estado, ao mesmo tempo que o submete a uma verdadeira escravidão.
Relatos Selvagens
Casero (segment "La propuesta")
Seis contos que exploram os extremos do comportamento humano envolvendo pessoas em desespero.
The Owners
Rubén
Sergio and his family work in an estate in Argentina’s northern region. When their employers aren't home, they occupy the main house and emulate the life of the owners. Then Pia, the eldest daughter of the owner, arrives at the estate with the intention of staying a few days until her father’s marriage...
Gato negro
The film tells the life of Tito Pereyra since his childhood in a town of Tucuman (with an absent father) until the 1980 s in Buenos Aires, when democracy was restored. During that period he makes decisions that will change his life forever.It shows a human being with both bright and dark aspects, whose contrasts seem to determine his destiny.
Lock Charmer
Sebastian, a locksmith who doesn't believe in committed relationships, learns from his recent girlfriend, Monica, that she's pregnant and he might be the father. At the same time, he discovers a strange power: when he fixes people's locks, he gets a vision into their lives-a sudden flash revealing their feelings. But this unwanted gift starts to complicate his life. After he warns a maid named Daisy that her boyfriend is trouble, she leaves the boyfriend, and Sebastian takes her in. When yet another vision sheds light on his own life, Sebastian is forced to examine his hang-ups, his family, and his relationship with Monica. - Written by Sundance Film Festival
Quest for the Power Sphere
She Wolf
She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires. She seduces, has sex with them and kills them. But one of those men is a police officer who is investigating her crimes. Running away from him she meets a dealer with whom she stars a relationship. This romance unravels a war between her three personalities: the monster woman, the sensual woman and the human woman who can still love.
Some Girls
Morelli
Taking a breather from the crisis of her marriage, a surgeon named Celina visits the country house of an old friend who she hasn't seen since their university days. When she gets there, she realizes that something is going on with Paula, her friend's step daughter. Soon she learns that Paula attempted suicide, but Celina is in no shape to help anyone, because she is fleeing a dark secret of her own and has come to the worst place of all possible places to save herself. In the limbo of this hellish little town, her ghosts are reborn, infecting everyone around her...
La laguna
The Lagoon tells the story of two characters who are forced to start a trip together. A man looking for a lagoon with metaphysical properties and a local guide who knows the way. Two different worlds that converge in an austere ecosystem, on a mountain that marks a new code to follow. But as they move forward, the trip itself takes on meaning and eclipses the constant search for that precious objective.
Samurai
A Japanese immigrant (Nicolas Nakayama) and a war veteran (Alejandro Awada) search for an exiled samurai in the mountains of Argentina.
Low Tide
Pascual
The arrival of a stranger -a thief running away from his accomplices- alters the routine of a big and solitary house in the Parana river delta inhabited by two women. That man carries a somber past behind him and moves towards an equally loo-my destiny. A film noir in a jungly landscape, with a dark and dense atmosphere.
Matar a un perro
Ramírez
Ramírez waits. He has to pass a test, he drives in silence towards the port of Buenos Aires. El Topo will give you a chance.
Nenhum Homem A Mais
Flavio
Charly was abandoned right after birth in a convent. He is not aware of who the couple who are about to arrive and dine at the inn, actually are. Karla is about to show up with a dead man and one hundred dollars in the trunk of her car.
The Second Death
Cura
Clueless on a gruesome case, a skeptical and lonely policewoman in a small village, is guided by a newly arrived clairvoyance gifted boy, who claims that the murderer is the Virgin Mary.
As Acácias
Rubén
Um caminhoneiro aceita levar com ele uma mulher e um bebê de Assunção, Paraguai até Buenos Aires, Argentina, mas tenta ignorá-los durante a viagem.
A Mysterious World
Héctor
Boris is stunned when his girlfriend Ana asks for some time apart. He doesn't know why and she can't explain it. Some time can mean so many things. How much time apart? A week, a month, years? During this imprecise period of uncertainty, Boris is left at the mercy of chance. His life transforms into an erratic urban journey: moving into a transient hotel, buying a temperamental communist-era car, meeting up with a long-lost classmate, random encounters with other women and repeatedly trying to get back together with Ana.
O Túnel dos Ossos
Triple
A fuga espetacular de sete prisioneiros da prisão de Villa Devoto, em Buenos Aires, Argentina, em 1991. Os prisioneiros cavam um túnel do hospital da prisão e, estando prestes a fugir, fazem uma descoberta horrível. A impressão é tal que um dos prisioneiros jura informar sobre essa descoberta ... não importa o custo.
Ocio
Hija del Sol
Anita
Sixto
Anita is the story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother Dora. One tragic morning in 1994, everything changes when Anita is left alone, confused and helpless after the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed (the deadliest bombing in Argentina's history). As Anita wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family of Asian immigrants.
Extraordinary Stories
Villager
X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.
O Assaltante
Um homem executa um plano que ele tem cuidadosamente preparado. Enquanto a câmera o segue em praticamente todos os seus movimentos, o espectador se torna uma testemunha privilegiada de momentos íntimos de ansiedade, desespero oculto ou o momento que precede uma decisão de vida ou morte.
Taxi, An Encounter
Luis