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Benjamín Naishtat

Benjamín Naishtat

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Biography

Benjamín Naishtat (born 1986; Buenos Aires City) is an Argentine filmmaker. He graduated from film school in Buenos Aires in 2008. From 2009 to 2011 he took part in Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains' programme in France. He has made a variety of commissioned films in Argentina and in Cameroon. His work is shown internationally – his feature debut Historia del miedo/History of Fear (2014) world premiered in competition in Berlin. Rojo (2018) premiered in Toronto.

Known For

The Virgin of the Quarry Lake
5.4

On the eve of the 2001 outbreak, Natalia falls madly in love with her lifelong friend Diego. The romance is interrupted when he meets the more experienced Silvia. With the help of her grandma Rita, Natalia decides to call on incantations and curses to jinx Diego and Silvia's blossoming relationship.

The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

2026
The Bronze Garden
7.4

Architect Fabián Danubio desperately tries to find his daughter, who has inexplicably disappeared leaving no trace.

The Bronze Garden

2017
Puan
6.4

When Marcelo Pena finally is about to be appointed Head of the Philosophy Department, the famous and seductive Professor Sujarchuk returns from Europe to claim the kingdom for himself.

Puan

2023
Rojo
6.0

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

Rojo

2018
Upa! 2: El regreso
5.6

Eight years after the first installment, Ailén, Fernando, and Nina, meet again in the BAFICI competition. From that reunion, they decide to resume their unfinished project: Tandil/Tromso. They bring along two new collaborators: Martín and Nancy.

Upa! 2: El regreso

2015
History of Fear
5.9

Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.

History of Fear

2014
The Game
5.5

A group of armed men are wandering in the jungle, tracking themselves one another. Some move in pairs, some alone, some wear military uniforms and some don't. Like in any sort of game, rivalries and internal conflicts will not take long to emerge, drawing a line between the strong and the weak.

The Game

2010
The Movement
6.7

During the first half of the 19th century, in a vast and desolated land fallen into anarchy, several armed groups drift along the infinite Pampas demanding support and food from the peasants. Even if they are bitter rivals, they all claim to pledge allegiance to the “movimiento”. Among these gangs is one led by Señor, an educated man who, with two of his followers, intends to found a peaceful new order. But while his enchanting words and manners seem appealing, his methods reveal an unstoppable thirst for power.

The Movement

2015
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In a small provincial town between the late 1950s and the 1980s, four young men whose friendship is shattered forever when a former policeman and his beautiful wife arrive in the town where the titular factory is located.

Glaxo

Less and Less
6.1

Less and Less, Luc Moullet’s 40th film, concerns development and expansion, from 1968 to 2010, of the devices based on computers, automats, interactive terminals and others that can be found everywhere.

Less and Less

2010
Tromboneros
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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
El séptimo día
10.0

During a Bar Mitzvah the power may be cut off, but not the celebration.

El séptimo día

1999
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Collections

2013
History of Evil
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- 1879. One thousand five hundred men walk in the desert under the orders of General Roca. They are going to build the space of the Argentine nation. They move forward undoubtedly to the big South, there where there is nothing, by carrying with them the civilization. A century later, in 1980, in the city now named General Roca, the military junta in power organizes a national congress of history to celebrate the centenarian of the conquest of this desert.

History of Evil

2011
We Were Fine
6.0

Three teenagers spend a summer together in the mountains. Tensions grow between them as well as violence which emerges at some point. The seriousness of the situations they experience and their consequences will be unsuspected.

We Were Fine

2008
Short Stories 5
5.0

The annual short film competition for directors organized and produced by the INCAA presents ten new works.

Short Stories 5

2009
El malestar
5.0

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El malestar

2022
Ciudad deportiva
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Ciudad deportiva

2016
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The Village

2014
Buenos Aires Rap
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Over the past 30 years, the art-form of Rap has been adopted and adapted to voice the realities of the impoverished and oppressed while becoming a highly coveted and controversial commodity. Buenos Aires Rap explores Hip-Hop culture's influence on Buenos Aires, Argentina and Buenos Aires' influence on Hip Hop culture.

Buenos Aires Rap

2014