Javier Drolas
1972 (53 года)
Sidewalls
Gustavo Taretto
Javier Drolas, Pilar López de Ayala
Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?
Sidewalls
Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango
Stephan Lacant
Ulrike C. Tscharre, Hanno Koffler
LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to provide the couple Tezlaff. It once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared.
Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango
Las buenas intenciones
Ana García Blaya
Javier Drolas, Amanda Minujín
An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
The Good Intentions
Severina
Felipe Hirsch
Javier Drolas, Carla Quevedo
A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
Severina
El mural
Héctor Olivera, Javier Olivera
Carla Peterson, Luis Machín
David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.
The Mural of Siqueiros
Cómo ganar enemigos
Gabriel Lichtmann
Martín Slipak, Javier Drolas
Lucas, a young lawyer obsessed with crime novels, turns a chance encounter with a beautiful woman into a date ending in his bed. But when he wakes up alone, missing a secret stash of cash, the game’s afoot. Inspired by his favorite gumshoes, Lucas looks for clues. What was once a love story becomes the caper to end all capers.
How to Win Enemies
O Livro dos Prazeres
Marcela Lordy
Simone Spoladore, Javier Drolas
The film brings Clarice Lispector’s novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, Lóri is a lonely and melancholic woman. She divides her time between her duties as a school teacher and her relationships, which are always fast and shallow. By chance, she meets Ulisses, an acknowledged Philosophy professor, who is self centered and provocative. Although he knows nothing about women, Lóri learns with him how to love and to face her own loneliness.
The Book of Delights
La estrella roja
Gabriel Lichtmann
Thelma Fardin, Héctor Díaz
The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.
The Red Star
Los que vuelven
Laura Casabé
María Soldi, Lali González
Julia, wife of a wealthy lord living near the Iguazu Falls, has nightmares for several days. The lord builds a fence to ward off the indigenous people, the Guarani tribe, but Julia is still anxious about her son Manuel’s safety. One day Manuel suddenly disappears, and when searching for him, Julia runs into her maid, Kerana, who was believed to have died one year before, under the falls.
The Returned
