
Nicolás Herzog
Directing
Biography
Nicolás Herzog (Argentina, 1979) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. He has worked as producer and director in commercials, documentaries and TV before directing the films Red Orchestra (2009, 24th Festival), Fly by Night (2016, 31st Festival) and La sombra del gallo (2020).
Known For

After spending 8 years in prison, former police officer Román Maidana returns to his childhood town and hallucinates a woman who seems to be encouraging him to disarm a network of prostitution and trafficking in women.
La sombra del gallo

A series of recordings that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sent to filmmaker Jean Renoir are the starting point for reconstructing the love affair that the French writer and aviator established with the "Argentine princesses" Edda and Suzzane Fuchs, protagonists of the chapter "Oasis" in his book Tierra de Hombre and inspiration for his masterpiece The Little Prince.
Vuelo nocturno

Collective film made in times of confinement. April 2020. The film gives visual form to inner worlds—what the directors see and how they see it. How they inhabit their spaces, their bodies, their fears and perspectives in isolation, and how they connect with the “outside worlds.”
Las fronteras del cuerpo

In her desire and ambition to become a powerful glam rock star, Elda comes into conflict with her shy alter ego Diego, with whom she shares the same body. A pilgrimage to the altar of a trans woman, who was murdered and buried in the middle of a forest, awakens in Elda new ways of loving, growing and bonding, in connection with nature and beyond the limitations of binaries.
Elda and the Monsters

April 5, 2000, Concordia, Entre Ríos. Two major media outlets broadcast live from the most impoverished city in the country, where a guerrilla group is preparing to "go to war" against the established order.