All the Awards

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA AWARDS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film El año del descubrimiento by Luis López Carrasco Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Direction Matías Piñeiro for...

New Screenings

The last day of this 35th edition is the perfect opportunity to watch again many of the award-winning films.

Independent Awards

AADA - Argentine Association of Audiovisual Art Directors Best Art Direction for an Argentine film from All Competitions Lucas Koziarski for Las Mil y Una by Clarisa Navas AATI - Argentine Association of Translators...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «El año del descubrimiento» de Luis López Carrasco

The year 1992 marked the 500th anniversary of Colombus’ arrival in America. In Spain, it was also the year of the Barcelona Olympic Games and the universal exposition of Seville, two moments of the country’s symbolical...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Direction - Matías Piñeiro for «Isabella»

Isabella is the fifth installment of Matías Piñeiro’s Shakespeareads –the most formally experimental of his films and, at the same time, the one that’s most committed with its characters’ drama. The story of a woman...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Acting - María Villar for «Isabella»

Isabella is the fifth installment of Matías Piñeiro’s Shakespeareads –the most formally experimental of his films and, at the same time, the one that’s most committed with its characters’ drama. The story of a woman...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Screenplay - Nicolás Prividera for «Adiós a la memoria»

“I will have spent all my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We don’t remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten,” said...

Astor Piazzolla Special Jury Award - «Moving on» by Yoon Dan-bi

The same year another Korean film about families, social classes and real-estate issues marked a milestone in world film history, young director Yoon Dan-bi made her first feature with similar elements, but with a gaze centered...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «Los conductos» by Camilo Restrepo

Los conductos tells the story of Pinky, whom Camilo Restrepo met when he shot Cómo crece la sombra cuando el sol declina. Pinky used to juggle in traffic lights, print t-shirts and had escaped a religious sect where violence...

Special Mention - «Mascarados» by Marcela Borela y Henrique Borela

The music is the engine of the different machines and the sound of materials as they impact the soil. Workers from the community of Pirenópolis, with their faces protected and their ears covered, turn the switches on and...

Special Mention - «Fauna» by Nicolás Pereda

Paco and Luisa, both of them actors, arrive at her hometown. First they run into Gabino, Luisa’s brother. Then, in a great comedic moment that involves some overpriced cigarettes sold on the street, Paco meets her father,...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Short Film - «Correspondencia» by Dominga Sotomayor and Carla Simón

In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young filmmakers talk about cinema, their families’ past and present, legacies and motherhood. The personal, deep reflections, embodied in the delicate images taken day...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «El tiempo perdido» de María Álvarez

If Marcel Proust completed the seven volumes of his novel In Search of Lost Time, what would be the most appropriate way of analyzing it in order to honor that effort? The group that stars in this documentary does so with...

Special Mention - «Las ranas» by Edgardo Castro

Barby lives in Greater Buenos Aires. In one of the film’s first scenes, we see her taking the Sarmiento train, and starting a not-very-successful journey selling socks on the street. We see her entering stores, offering...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Short Film - «Homenaje a la obra de Philip Henry Gosse» by Pablo Weber

Sitting in his computer, an Argentine director reflects on the metaphysical postulates of British natural historian Philip Henry Gosse, while he experiments with images and sounds saved in his personal database.

José Martínez Suárez Award for Best Direction - Natalia Garayalde for «Esquirlas»

On November 3rd, 1995, the Río Tercero Military Factory in Córdoba exploded. This caused thousands of projectiles to go off and disperse over the surrounding towns, in a tragedy that would leave seven casualties and hundreds...

Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Feature Length Film - «Mes chers espions» by Vladimir Léon

Vladimir Léon walks to the subway in order to go and see his brother Pierre. In his hand he carries a briefcase of considerable size. Vladimir knows that inside it are all kinds of documents that belonged to their mother,...

Special Mention - «Heliconia» by Paula Rodríguez Polanco

This is the portrait of three young people in search of an earthly paradise. It is the story of their voyage, of their desires of freedom and their affective relationships through the tropic’s proteiform landscape.  

Astor Piazzolla Award to the Best Project - «Morichales» by Chris Gude

A documentary about the travels of a hypothetical geographer and explorer captivated by the Venezuelan Guyana, the land of the great Orinoco, where large gold reserves exist under the palms of the Moriche. The geographer...

Best Film - «Historia de lo oculto» by Cristian Ponce

The first feature by Cristian Ponce, a web series (Un año sin televisión and the spectacular animated show The Kirlian Frequency) and short film (Breve Historia en el Planeta) veteran, imagines an alternative Buenos Aires...

Special Mention - «Como el cielo después de llover» by Mercedes Gaviria

Mercedes Gaviria is a young Colombian woman who left her country in order to study film in Buenos Aires. Her mother didn’t want her to go to live so far away from her, and tried to convince her to go to the University of...

Awards and Closing Ceremony on the 35th edition!

The hour for the Awards and Closing Ceremony on the 35th edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival is almost here.

Must-Sees - Master Class: Roberto Minervini

Below, the complete conversation in Spanish.

Must-Sees - Homage to Fernando "Pino" Solanas

With an emotional double program, the Festival carried out its homage to the great Fernando Pino Solanas, the fundamental figure of Argentine culture and politics who recently left us. In the first place, Victoria Solanas, Juan...

Must-Sees - Special Dossier: 25 years of Historias Breves

If we think about a turning point in film and filmmaking in Argentina in recent decades it is, without a doubt, the appearance of Historias Breves (Short Stories). Celebrating 25 years of this series, the Mar del Plata Film...

¡El Festival al aire libre en Parque Centenario!

Must-Sees - Master Class: Rita Azevedo Gomes

Another long-awaited Master Class was held, this time whith the exquisite Portuguese director Rita Azevedo Gomes, who returned to the Festival after having premiered worldwide A portuguesa (2018), one of her latest works,...

Must-Sees - Master Class: Andrés Duque

The Conversations with Masters of this edition featured the enriching presence of Venezuelan filmmaker Andrés Duque, who presented his conference From Karelia to the unexplored region, where he reviewed the cartography of...

Must-Sees - Book Presentation Panel: What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future

Based on an idea by Marcelo Alderete, programmer of the Festival, the book What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future registers more than seventy texts about the future of cinema, its guidelines and rituals,...

Must-Sees - Master Class: Albert Serra

A new Master Class was held. This time the great guest was Albert Serra, one of the most original and outstanding voices of Catalan cinema of all time, who spoke with the Director of the Festival, Cecilia Barrionuevo, in...

Must-Sees - Master Class: Walter Hill

“Everyone knows that I hate interviews, I hate being asked about my films, but I’m very excited about this talk for the Mar del Plata Film Festival.” Thus began Walter Hill, one of the most important directors of action,...

Must-Sees - After the Film: Distribution - Promotion - Exhibition

With the moderation of Fernando E. Juan Lima, President of the Festival, the panel After the film: Distribution - Promotion - Exhibition outlined the new alternatives of a particularly difficult process for independent...

Cinematographic Preservation Panel. Cinema made by women, three case studies

Last Tuesday took place the table Cinematographic Preservation Panel. Cinema made by women, three case studies, took place, moderated by Pablo Marín, in which the preservation efforts carried out on the materiality of the...

Must-Sees - Conversations with Masters: Miranda July

On Monday 23th, the first meeting of the Masterclasses took place and included the stellar presence of multidisciplinary artist Miranda July, who for more than an hour spoke with programmer Pablo Conde and reviewed the...

3 questions for Eduardo Crespo

The director of Nosotros nunca moriremos (We Will Never Die), participating in the International Competition of the Festival, answers our questions.

3 questions for Alex Piperno

The director of Chico ventana también quisiera tener un submarino (Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine) reveals details about his film, which is part of the Latin American Competition.

3 questions for Inés María Barrionuevo and María Gabriela Vidal

The duo of directors who gave life to Las motitos (Little Bikes), one of the films in the Argentine Competition.

3 questions for Nicolás Zukerfeld

The director of No existen treinta y seis formas de mostrar cómo se sube un hombre a un caballo (There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse), a film that is part of the Altered States competition of...

Must-Sees - 3rd Forum on Cinema and Gender Perspective: Gender Inequalities in Cinema

For the third year in a row, the Forum on cinema and gender perspective - Gender inequalities in cinema was held. It was moderated by Lic. Analía Barrionuevo (Coordinator of the Central Unit for Gender Policies of the...

Must-Sees - Book Presentation Panel: El asombro y la audacia. El cine de María Luisa Bemberg

As part of the Tribute dedicated to Maria Luis Bemberg, an essential filmmaker in the world of Argentine cinema, the 35th edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival has published a book about her career, in addition to screening...

3 questions for María Álvarez

The director describes and analyzes different aspects of her new documentary, El tiempo perdido (Le temps perdu), which is part of the Festival's Argentine Competition.

3 questions for Ben Rivers

We spoke with the director of Look Then Below, his latest film which is in the Festival’s Altered States Competition.

Diego Armando Maradona (1960-2020)

As the poet says, "culture is a smile." Diego Armando Maradona has drawn smiles on our faces like no one else. He was a part of our lives, a part of our culture. We at the Mar del Plata International Festival sadly join his...

3 questions for Nicolás Prividera

A conversation with the director of Adiós a la memoria (A Farewell to Memory), before its presentation in the International Competition of this edition.

3 questions for Toia Bonino

The director of La sangre en el ojo (Seeing Red) tells us details about her film in the Argentine Competition.

3 questions for Vladimir Léon

The Russian director tells us about Mes chers espions (My Dear Spies), one of the films in the Altered States Competition.

3 questions for Javier Fernández Vázquez

We spoke with the director of Anunciaron tormenta (A Storm was Coming), which is part of the Altered States Competition.

3 questions for Nicolás Pereda

We spoke with the director of Fauna, participating in the Latin American Competition.

3 questions for Luis Alejandro Pérez

We talk with the director of Piola, a film in the Latin American Competition.

3 questions for Edgardo Castro

We spoke with the director of Las ranas (The Frogs), one of the films in the Argentine Competition.

3 questions for Francisco Márquez

We spoke with the director of Un crimen común (A Common Crime), one of the films that make up the Argentine Competition.

3 questions for Tatiana Mazú González

We spoke with the director of Río Turbio (Shady River), one of the films in the Altered States Competition.

3 questions for Clarisa Navas

The director of Hoy Partido a las 3 tells us about Las Mil y Una (One in a Thousand), her new film, which is participating in the International Competition.

3 questions for Camilo Restrepo

We spoke with the director of Los conductos, one of the films from the Latin American Competition.

3 questions for Ana Elena Tejera

Brief dialogue with the director of Panquiaco, one of the films of the Latin American Competition.

3 questions for Claudia Carreño

We spoke with the director of Cartas de una fanática de Whistler a un fanático de Conrad (Letters from a Whistler Fan to a Conrad Fan), participating in the Altered States Competition.

3 questions for Paula Rodríguez Polanco

The director of Heliconia, part of the Altered States Competition, answers our questions.

3 questions for Cristian Ponce

The director of Historia de lo oculto (History of the Occult) shares details with us about his first feature film which is participating in the Argentine Competition.

3 questions for Javier Favot

We spoke with the director of Deja que las luces se alejen (Let the Lights Move Away) one of the films that make up the Altered States Competition.

Welcome to the 35th edition!

We invite you to participate online at the Opening Ceremony. You can follow it live at https://www.youtube.com/MardelPlataFilmFestival or through our Facebook page, at 8 p.m. (UTC -3). At 9 p.m. you will find the Opening...

3 questions for Jessie Barr

Jessie Barr reveals some details about Sophie Jones, her film in the Festival’s International Competition.

3 Questions for Maximiliano Contenti

We spoke with the director about Al morir la matinée (Red Screening), which in the Latin American Competition.

3 questions for Martín Sappia

We spoke with the director of Un cuerpo estalló en mil pedazos (A Body Exploded into a Thousand Pieces), a film in the Argentine Competition.

3rd Forum on Cinema and Gender Perspective

Gender Inequalities and Inequities in Film

Full Program

COMPETITIONS   International Competition Adiós a la memoria / A Farewell to Memory,  by Nicolás Prividera - Argentina - 2020 - 95’ El año del descubrimiento / The Year of the Discovery, by Luis López Carrasco...

These are the selected participants of the 3rd Young Film Critics and Judges Workshop

The workshop consists of four meetings between November 23 and 26, organized by recognized national and international critics and programmers. During the four days, they will accompany those selected in the processes of...

Relive the Most Remembered Talks with Masters of Cinema at the Festival

As a prelude to the coming 35th edition of the Festival, it will be possible to see the participation of filmmakers Claire Denis, Bong Joon-ho, Joe Dante and Nina Menkes in previous editions of the Festival.

Accreditations

The Mar del Plata International Film Festival has the pleasure of inviting you to fill out its accreditation request form for the 35th edition of the Festival. The form will be available until Friday, November 6.

Against the wind, the tide and the pandemic

During these adverse conditions, adapting to extraordinary circumstances, but with the same strength as always: the Mar del Plata International Film Festival celebrates another continuous year of programming.

Farewell to Rodolfo Weisskirch

We deeply regret to announce the death of our friend and colleague Rodolfo Weisskirch who was part of the Web Contents team of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.