Movies by Graciela Borges
Cortázar y Antín: cartas iluminadas
In the 60s and thanks to the epistolary exchange, the young filmmaker Manuel Antín and the famous writer Julio Cortázar devised four films. An ocean away, a fruitful collaboration and genuine friendship are born.
Miss Tacuarembo
Miss Tacuarembó is a unique mixture of drama, comedy, musical with touches of parody and nostalgia which for its beautiful narration will attract many open-minded viewers not only in Latin American world. The story of Natalia, the main hero, and her life's struggles is shown in different three eras of her life.
Gringalet
Tato's Argentina
In a Mockuocumentary format, led by the personage represented by Leonardo Sbaraglia, in 2499 the research is presented - carried out by scientists from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, whose exposition is in charge of Helmut Strasse, founder of the first school of Argentinology - about the remote existence of Argentina, an unknown country of great potential inexplicably disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Los pasajeros del jardín
A man's terminal illness disrupts the happiness of his marriage.
Poor Butterfly
A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the pol...
Monday's Child
The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her father mistakenly sent in a box of aid during a flood.
Favio: Chronicle of a Director
There are very few icons in Argentine culture capable of appealing to both popular and elitist tastes. Leonardo Favio was undoubtedly one of them. An unseasonable Peronist attached to the liturgy of his land, the director, born in the province of Mendoza, was and artist at every craft. a Renassaince man, but above all, a filmmaker. This is how "Favio: Chronicle of a Director" recaptures him, as a man of film who fed from radio, acting, music and painting in order to build up the handful of rhapsodies with which he adorned argentinean cinemat...