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Martín Rejtman

Martín Rejtman

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Biography

Martín Rejtman (born January 3, 1961, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer and film director. He is considered to be a key figure in the New Argentine Cinema, making films such as Silvia Prieto and The Magic Gloves. Rejtman studied filmmaking at New York University, where he had to make one short per week and had to shoot with what was available. At NYU he established a mode of production embraced by many other young Argentine filmmakers, both before and since: that is, the art of working with a small budget. Rejtman uses a minimalist style when making films. He said, "When I made Rapado, I felt that Argentine cinema had too much dialogue, and bad dialogue at that. I hate adornments, I hate artifice, I hate anything that's unnecessary, because there really is nothing beyond the screen.

Known For

Silvia Prieto
7.2

After her 27th birthday, Silvia Prieto decides to take charge of her life and make some changes. At the same time, she suddenly finds herself intertwined in the life of another woman who is also named Silvia Prieto.

Silvia Prieto

1999
Sidewalls
7.5

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 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

2011
Dry Martina
5.8

Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.

Dry Martina

2018
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
7.2

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

2014
Two Shots Fired
5.7

Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a woman to join his medieval wind ensemble.

Two Shots Fired

2014
The Practice
6.3

Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. Step by step, they find their way back to the practice.

The Practice

2024
An Odd Turn
5.8

Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who jobs as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum and falls in love with a currency exchange house employee.

An Odd Turn

2024
Gulliver
7.0

After a party, Agos and Ren find themselves in a strange place where they remember to have been before… A failed world bursting with dependences and doors leading to the same yet different place.

Gulliver

2015
Riders
7.0

In Argentina, the majority of delivery drivers working for local UberEats clone apps are Venezuelans who have fled the crisis ravaging their country. Filmed during the pandemic in Buenos Aires, Caracas and Colonia Tovar, Riders forcefully immerses us in the gruelling daily lives of those exploited by the platform economy at both ends of South America.

Riders

2024
Historias Breves II: Abrigo
6.5

Ana loses her mother after a sudden heart attack. He tries to avoid his feelings by feigning indifference. He doesn't stop doing anything he always did, until a message, left by his mother in a radio message box before she died, is accidentally deleted. Ana is forced to face reality.

Historias Breves II: Abrigo

1996
Crane World
6.1

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

Crane World

1999
Rapado
6.6

After the theft of his motorcycle, Lucio bums aimlessly around Buenos Aires drifting from one arcade and record store to the next, indulging in short chats with friends and, more often, setting out onto the streets alone.

Rapado

1992
La libertad
6.6

A man chops down trees, organizes the trunks, cleans them, stops to defecate, has lunch, takes a nap and continues to sell his timber.

La libertad

2001
The Magic Gloves
6.5

This film follows the crisscrossed fortunes of, among others, a rock musician, a flight attendant, a dog walker with an alarming penchant for over-the-counter medication, and a cab driver, who doesn’t really care about his life spiralling out of control, as long as he can sit in his old Renault 12.

The Magic Gloves

2003
Kékszakállú
4.9

An unconventional portrayal of several young women witnessed in immersive yet indeterminate states: within their bodies, among their friends and lovers, and ultimately in a culture of economic and spiritual recession. Obliquely inspired by Bela Bartok’s sole opera, Bluebeard’s Castle.

Kékszakállú

2016
1000 Boomerangs
6.5

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1000 Boomerangs

1995
Doli Goes Home
5.8

An early black-and-white mood piece, Rejtman’s lyrical short film fuses a young couple’s passage into early adulthood with a journey through Buenos Aires in the quietest moments at the very break of day.

Doli Goes Home

1986
Everything Together
9.0

Federico León crosses the path of the cinema to tell in Everything together the endless, torn struggles of a couple that never stops separating.

Everything Together

2002
Elementary Training for Actors
5.0

Sergio is a drama teacher for children. Through his classes we learn something about him and his students. Pain is above fear. Children can only act as children. A child cannot act as a policeman, an old man, a prostitute, for example. The great advantage of a child is that he is the only one who can act as a child naturally. Therefore, their greatest competitors are animals.

Elementary Training for Actors

2009
Shakti
5.8

Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unexpected reaction—but then he meets someone else.

Shakti

2019