Natalio Pagés
Directing
Biography
Natalio Pagés was born in Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires. A film director trained at ENERC, he is also a sociologist, musician and university professor, and is currently completing his PhD. His work includes the feature film Lost Time (Mar del Plata International Film Festival, 2020) and the short films The Pact (Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, 2015), A Shadow in the Glow of Nacre (Sitges IFF, 2019) and The Girl at the Frontier (BAFICI, 2026). He has also worked as an editor on the documentary short Gardeliana and the feature A Night at Paladium. Alongside his filmmaking, he edited the book Giallo. Crime, Sexuality and Style in Italian Genre Cinema (Rutemberg) and has published widely on social theory, semiology, cinema and memory, as well as film criticism in magazines such as Détour, Hacerse la Crítica, Calanda and Jacobin. He is part of Colectivo Rutemberg, where he works as a director, screenwriter, editor and creative producer.
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El galpón
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Universo conurbano
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La astucia y la fuerza
A man returns to his job in a company that transports animals. On his first trip, one of the cages doesn't seem to be carrying what it should. The mystery lurking in his truck pushes him to the limit of his own sanity.
Animal Transport
A group of Carlos Gardel fans gathers every year at the Chacarita Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of his death. Gardeliana portrays the ritual of a national hero, a day of saddened faces that coexist between the marvelous and the ghostly.
Gardeliana
ENERC, a historic public film school in Argentina, is facing serious difficulties due to the government's current economic and cultural policies. Despite the uncertainty, its students continue to attend classes.
Open Doors
Juan having a coffee. Two old acquaintances who he would prefer not to meet. An anecdote I'd rather not hear. Juan gets lost in better thoughts.
Magalí
A writer (Ruy Gatti) arrives to an unoccupied house where he hopes to find inspiration. He places the typewriter on the desk and takes off the sheets covering the furniture. Among them, an old mirror in which he sees his own reflection. He couldn't imagine that that little gesture would seal his fate.
The Pact
A lonely archive worker’s monotonous routine gives way to hallucinations that spiral from sensuality into paranoia, as a deadly presence begins to hunt her through the corridors.
A Shadow in the Glow of Nacre
Paladium. One of the busiest and most fashionable nightclubs in Buenos Aires, where artists, LGBT activists, traditional tangueros, and the newest generation of Argentine rock musicians would all cohabit with freedom and morality. And now?
A Night at Paladium
An Argentine scholar living abroad returns home to meet an old school professor, his role model in life. But the meeting will take an unexpected turn.
Lost Time
After a bad breakup, Rodrigo locked himself at home to listen to prog rock. Desperate to reach out to someone, he put his favorite vinyl on sale and waited for a woman to buy it. If someone out there likes that same music, they should be made for each other. Rodrigo receives a woman’s phone call, but things are not going to resolve as he expects them to.
Los pájaros
A girl survives among the wreckage left behind by an invading army, searching for shelter and food. But when she accidentally kills a bird, the fragile emotional balance that sustained her begins to crumble.