Leonardo Favio Movies

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...

The story of José María Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s. The film follows...

This short features an unnamed shoeshine boy who works near a carnival. He dreams he befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to...

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

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

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

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

Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.

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

A girl and her fantasy universe in the brick ovens.

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

This is the story of a Navy captain, a provincial government official during the Onganía dictatorship. Despite being married, he falls in love...

Leonardo is a singer with huge success in Argentina and abroad. He is happy, but his tranquility is not enough as he can't find love and is possessed...

The godmother and Perla are the world to "the little girl," a world defined by the four walls of a studio apartment with one window looking nowhere....

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 romantic encounter and misunderstanding between an aristocratic model and an actor.

A woman tries to write a nice goodbye letter to her husband.