Lucrecia Martel

Martel intimately explores the burgeoning sexuality and religious fervor of two teenage girls, Amalia (Alche) and her best friend, Josefina (Zylberberg). Artfully piecing together a mosaic of nuanced details, fragments of sounds, and small moments, Martel creates a potent and specific portrait of adolescent life. (Lita Stantic Producciones SA)

Chekhov in contemporary Argentina. Mecha and Gregorio are at their rundown country place near La Ciénaga with their teen children. It's hot. The adults drink constantly; Mecha cuts herself, engendering a trip to the hospital and a visit from her son José. A cousin, Tali, brings her children. The kids are on their own, sunbathing by the filthy pool, dancing in town, running in the hills with shotguns, driving cars without licenses... (imdb)

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone. (imdb)

A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband. (imdb)

Some fishes dreamt they were a car. (notodofilmfest.com)

In this contemporary film noir, an elegant crew of female creatures emerges insect-like from portals on board a ship anchored in a tropical sea, their faces obscured from view. Entombed aboard this luxury modernist boat, the female chrysalides prepare for their strange metamorphosis, symbols of evolution, transcendence and escape from the material and ephemeral. (imdb)

In 2006 Martel directed this informative short (whose title would be better translated as "The City That Flees" in English) about the more than 600 gated communities that can be found in Buenos Aires alone, an area of real estate totaling 360km2, roughly the size of the Gaza Strip. (numerocinqmagazine)

Snatches of conversation, movements in coastal areas, videos circulating on the Internet warning of a conspiracy. From the Bermejo river basin there are people who sail in camalotes to the islands that are emerging in the Delta. Maybe it's an invasion, perhaps an attempt of re-foundation. (KG)

Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires. (imdb)

Documentary directed by Lucrecia Martel.

The music video for artist Julieta Laso directed by Lucrecia Martel.

Short film directed by Lucrecia Martel.

Viennale trailer 2019 by Lucrecia Martel.

During the 2020 lockdown, Lucrecia Martel returns to her home in Salta, Argentina. She follows Julieta Laso who, like a muse, introduces her to a group of female artists and defiant people who exchange glances and opinions around a fire. (imdb)