
Juan Renau
Directing
Known For

A young man decides to join the army. He becomes the drummer in the military band, and his everyday life is now a combination of military training and music. What does the Argentine Army do these days, more than thirty years after the dictatorship? What does it mean to be a soldier in a country without wars?
Soldier

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

Three firefighters try not to fall asleep while waiting for a fire to make them leave the barracks. "Incendio / Rescate" watches closely, in an almost dreamlike way, these characters who spend their time waiting for the opportunity to become heroes.
Incendio/Rescate

It is an approach to the figure of Fernando Martín Peña, but it is also a film about cinema, about a transcendental movement in its history, its spaces and rituals.
Life in the Dark

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Partes del todo

“The possibility of writing letters must have brought to the world a terrible disturbance of souls. Because it is a relationship with ghosts - and not only with the ghost of the recipient, but also with his own. Who is allowed to allow people to have correspondence relationships! ”Letter from Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1920.
Yo y Maru 2012

Renzo tries to get close to the universe of family and football, which has always seemed alien to him. He wanders between his current life and the one he could have had.
Prodigal Son

Over several days and nights, an actor and an actress read the correspondence between Torcuato and Kamala, the film director's parents, he from Argentina, and she from India. The letters, encompassing the decades from the 50s to the 70s, refer to love and idealism, record world travels, talk about socialism and psychoanalysis, about pain and broken dreams. Their reading reveals a relationship between the actors, with similarities and differences. Meanwhile, with his own daughter, the director sets about solving the puzzle of the family memory, an intimate twentieth-century tale.
Private Fiction

"CICLOS follows Ignacio Semeñuk, a 15 year old cyclist, as he faces the severeness of his training, his path to adulthood and his love life."
Cycles
Jaki lives with her parents and two poodles. She writes poetry and sells knishes. One day, she thinks of a new text, but while writing it, her ideas start to mix with her own life.
I Don't See Myself Being Old

This film is a third-person diary of the encounters and disagreements between two unbelievers and a prophet. But before that, it is a crazy journey, where its brave characters will be involved in a series of (extra) ordinary events with a mysterious ball, spaceships and regional products.
Los incrédulos

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El cielo de los animales

In a world where communication between humans and animals remains a mystery, a fundamental question arises—do animals suffer? People take their pets to Hospital Escuela in search of relief, while the future veterinarians learn and practice how to ease the animals’ pain.
Animal Hospital

Every Christmas, Jorge and Jorge Jr. decorate their house in a special way. The people in the village call it 'The House of the Lights'.
The Lights
stone age Age of water. Lightning defines the age of the future. The age of the future is a skeleton of lightning.
Edad de piedra, edad de agua

A group of friends, the windows of buildings at night, Chacarita's cemetery, a road trip and tree tops are mixed together with sleepless city lights.
Amancay

Dogs. With them there is always more than meets the eye. Ask Lionel Falcon. He knows a thing or two about dogs. He’s a photographer, but not your average one. Lionel is in a very particular line of work. He photographs dogs for a living. And he takes his job seriously. Photo shoots and photo calls. But leave it to Lionel: he always comes up with a new idea that makes both owner and dog extremely happy. Devoted to the idea that you need to be a professional no matter what you do, he always doublechecks his settings, the lights, and his work tools. Everything is under control, because every dog has its day and obviously Lionel needs to have his dogs.
Lionel

Short film that depicts the farewell of soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona.