Leonardo Favio

A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into...

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but...

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a...

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he...

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl...

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.

This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.

In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and...

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for...

A woman realizes her husband's brutality while he's away and other men are after her.

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt...

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and...

A documentary short about the making of Gatica, el mono by argentine director Leonardo Favio. This film focuses on the particular way of directing...

Film composed of different short stories, in which an envoy of God to the Earth (Raul Rossi) must help solving some small conflicts referring to...

A Spanish immigrant goes from delivery guy to successful singer.

Leonardo Favio’s final years are captured through the eyes of his daughter in an intimate and revealing journey. As Favio recreates his...