Walter Jakob

Extraordinary Stories

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.

The Library

JK enters the Library in search of a book but he quickly discovers that his wishes might not be that simple. Halls and corridors multiply like a labyrinth without a way out, stairs lead to impossible places, and the employees of the Library don't offer any help. The Library seems to watch over and guide him against his will. Every attempt to move forward traps him, plunging him further into the chaos of an absurd system. What began as a small desire turns into a mental and sensory odyssey, where JK will even have to resort to violence. What is your Library?

Argentina 1985

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

En viaje

El vestido

Lena, an actress, receives her psychologist's daughter's quinceañera dress for the premiere of her film.

¡El Archiduque debe morir!

Sobre fenómenos y sombras

Trenque Lauquen

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Un sueño recurrente

Ignacio has the same dream every night. This dream is destroying everything from the inside of his mind: his job, his romance, his personality, his world. Is it a vision, a sickness, or a simple whim?

The Little Match Girl

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to stage an insane opera; the problems of Marie, Walter and their daughter, who are trying to survive on very little money…

Initials S.G.

An aging, Argentine, Serge Gainsbourg wannabe struggles to deal with a career he can't seem to get on track, an affair he doesn't want, and a crime he didn't mean to commit.

The Gold Bug

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.

La Flor

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…

A Blue Bird

For over six years, Javier and Valeria have been trying to get pregnant. At work Javier is approached by Camila, a coworker, and tells him she is pregnant with his baby. In the following days, his relationship—indeed, his entire existence—starts to fall apart.

Respira

Unable to land a job as an airline pilot, Leonardo takes a job as a fumigator pilot at a farm in the countryside. On his very first night, he discovers the town harbors a deadly secret that will put everyone in danger.