
Alejandro Doria
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Biography
Alejandro Doria (Buenos Aires, November 1, 1936 - Buenos Aires, June 17, 2009) was an Argentine film director, television director, actor and theater director. In his career, he won many national and international awards, including the 2007 Goya Award and the Silver Columbus for Las manos, the Cóndor de Plata Award for Realizing, the South Award for Las manos, and the Montreal Festival Ecumenical Award for La island. The classic Argentine comedy film "Waiting for the float" is also his authorship (based on the play by Jacobo Langsner).
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Atreverse

Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
Waiting for the Hearse

A massacre tinted Cascallares with blood and time covered the events with a cloak of silence. Ten years later, a group returns to the place to investigate. They will soon turn into corpses one by one. History repeats itself.
Nunca más asistas a este tipo de fiestas

Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.
Contragolpe

The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.
Darse cuenta

Set amidst a backdrop of political unrest and oppression in Argentina following the coup of the late 1980s, this impressive drama dwells upon a May-December love affair between a boy and a woman suspected of political subversion. When seventeen-year-old Pedro defiantly befriends political fugitive Sofia and provides her shelter, he creates a deep rift between himself, his family and his friends. Sofia is hunted because she was at one time in love with a Communist sympathizer. At first the relationship is purely platonic as Pedro helps her recover from a 23-day long flight that has left Sofia weak and starving for sleep. But as time passes, Pedro becomes increasingly involved with her and his schoolwork begins to suffer. Gradually he falls in love with her and she with him. But as the political situation grows more oppressive and the government steps up its search for subversives, the two begin making desperate plans to flee the country.
Sofía

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.
The Island

The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.
The Hands

A plague ravages Buenos Aires. Those affected by it are executed on the spot; those who are healthy should report to the authorities. Escaping both from the authorities and from the disease, seven survivors head south.
Fears

A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
Cien veces no debo

A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.
18-j

The disputes between two leaders, set in 1930s Cuidad de Buenos Aires.
Proceso a la infamia

Documentary about Argentine journalist Jorge Ricardo Masetti (1929-1964), founder of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, and commander of Che Guevara's vanguard in Argentina.
La palabra empeñada

A man's terminal illness disrupts the happiness of his marriage.