Jorge Gaggero
Directing
Known For

The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.
Historias Breves 1

Sebastián is a locksmith who begins to have revelatory visions about his clients every time he touches their locks. This power complicates his life.
Lock Charmer

In the spring of 2015, with her 80 years of age, Eloísa prepares to participate in a new celebration commemorating October 17, 1945. 70 years have passed since that feat of the working people. Everything is fresh in Eloísa's memory, also that night in 1944 when she became a witness to a secret meeting in the mansion where she worked as a service staff. There was Colonel Juan Domingo Perón fighting a duel with the representatives of the economic power of the time who proposed to condition his actions. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, the staff debated the current employment and political situation.
Cita con Perón

This documentary tells through the story of various relatives and testimonies the fire at the Iron Mountain company that led to the death of six police firefighters, two volunteer firefighters and two civil defense agents.
En cumplimiento del deber

The military coup of '76 means that the birthday of a little girl named Paula does not pass normally.
Historias Breves II: Aluap

The story of a boy who lives in a humble neighborhood and has problems with a police commissioner. The backdrop is the Argentine crisis experienced in the Buenos Aires suburbs, and the first scene portrays the looting of a supermarket. The short was part of "Short Stories I" (1995).
Historias Breves I: Ojos de fuego

Two men in search of a mysterious briefcase that can drive them mad.
Historias Breves II: Al cielo, no

An old man, nearing death, longs to be buried in the land where he was born and began his glory years, when adventure and romance were his.
A Piece of Earth

Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
Live-In Maid
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Montenegro

An old man seems to direct the lives of the people who pass by on the street, under his balcony.
Historias Breves I: La Ausencia
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