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Maximiliano Schonfeld

Maximiliano Schonfeld

Directing

Biography

Maximiliano Schonfeld (Crespo, Argentina. 1982) studied film at the ENERC and was assistant director to Rodrigo Moreno and Víctor Kozakovzky. His debut feature, "Germania", premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2012. His film "La helada negra" was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016. His third fiction feature, "Jesús López" ( together with the Argentine writer Selva Almada), premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival in September 2021. He currently serves as president of the Entre Ríos Audiovisual Institute.

Known For

Ander Egg
N/A

Adolfo, 60 years old, soon to retire, has the only chance to do something important in his life. He works as a public employee in a forgotten agency: Department of Paranormal Intelligence. After a mysterious accident: some children disappear in the river without any trace of their bodies. He, who has not solved a case in 15 years, is sent to Victoria.

Ander Egg

2011
El lobo
N/A

The story reflects the lives of several teenagers from a German colony in the province of Entre Ríos, some of whom want to leave, while others choose to stay in the village. Ferdinand, a young German who is in the colony to study its customs, disappears. This fact will shock both young people and adults, as well as the police who will arrive to investigate.

El lobo

2013
The Message
6.8

In the Argentinian countryside, a child's special gift gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with her as an animal medium in order to earn a living.

The Message

2025
A Common Crime
6.3

Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.

A Common Crime

2021
The Delights
8.5

High school students find their way in life at Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. This striking coming-of-age film takes place against an inviting backdrop of fields of crops, greenhouses full of tomato plants, and the somewhat dilapidated school buildings, where dogs and chickens roam.

The Delights

2023
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
There Will Come Soft Rains
6.0

In a working-class neighborhood, in the outskirts of a small town, a group of children is faced with a strange and terrifying incident, which will soon develop into a true epidemic: all adults have turned into “sleepy beings”. The children, petrified yet determined, try hard to keep their spirits high and not give up hope that somehow, someday, their parents will “wake up”.

There Will Come Soft Rains

2018
As Close as Possible
6.0

Downtrodden after some missteps in life, Daniel returns home. Work is non-existent, his ex-wife expects financial help he can't give her, and things are looking bleak. Yet as he prepares to become Godfather to his sister's son, who's soon to be baptised, he rediscovers a purpose - for a few days, at least.

As Close as Possible

2012
The Black Frost
4.0

Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by ‘black frost’ which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely and self-assuredly she begins to influence their familiar routines. The bewildered farmers yield to Alejandra’s interventions: she dons Heribertos’ dead wife’s clothes, accompanies Benigno to a greyhound race and wins young Lucas’ friendship. Shortly afterwards, the frost disappears.

The Black Frost

2016
Argentino Vargas
N/A

A retired boxer is willing to do anything to return to the ring and conquer the woman who never wanted to reciprocate him.

Argentino Vargas

2010
Toublanc
5.7

Three stories inspired by stories by Juan José Saer. A police officer returns to his hometown to investigate a murder; a teacher complains about a horse that has been abandoned. One day, a man is found dead, and there is no trace of the horse, which is the only witness to the murder.

Toublanc

2017
Tromboneros
N/A

Every year, for one week, more than 150 trombonists come from different countries to meet in Santa Fe, a small city on the banks of the Paraná River, where they participate in collective courses and individual classes, and perform and listen to music.

Tromboneros

2021
Verano
6.0

Five challenging young men gather in a closed courtyard. The chords of a rock band emerge from the silence that the siesta emanates. Immutable, they play as time unfolds and loses the stability of the present.

Verano

2010
El ruido del mundo
N/A

Three imperfect ways of remembering. The image, the story, the sound; the gestures that survive the noise.

El ruido del mundo

2014
Lo-Fi
4.8

How do the interhouse trips sound?

Lo-Fi

2011
Frankenstein
N/A

What do a young man in love in the mountains and a caged thrush have in common? A couple of men on a farm looking for a child and a dog obsessed with burrows? A man looking for a friend with whom to share the town's popular festivals and a gang of bikers who don't want to return home? A bath in the north that reflects all the stars at night and a father who remembers the Balkan war? A fox and a desert in Catamarca and the exploitation of lands in Patagonia? The Mapuche resistance, the lost languages ​​and the fishing boats of the Argentine sea? Frankenstein.

Frankenstein

Jesús López
6.3

Jesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his town in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place in life.

Jesús López

2022
Germania
5.5

A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina.

Germania

2013
Big Shadow
N/A

A few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.

Big Shadow

2024
Santa Fe - notas, 2017-2019
N/A

Santa Fe - notes, 2017 - 2019 is a story made up of fragments of landscapes, buildings, voices and objects. It is a film built on the relationship between art and the colony, memory and threat, native peoples and silence.

Santa Fe - notas, 2017-2019

2020