María Villar

Acting

María Villar

Born 1980-10-04

Acting credits

Yes, Over poster
4.0

A private detective spends her days in her car following a suspect she hardly ever sees. As she tries to make progress with the case, she reviews her closest ties. The unexpected appearance of Alicia, a neighbor, disrupts the investigation and her personal life.

Yes, Over

2026

Tres valijas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tres valijas

2018

Isabella poster
5.7

Mariel wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. With the support of Luciana, who is also an actress, she has already rehearsed the part. But during the audition, Mariel realises that Luciana is trying out for the same role.

Isabella

2021

Un Andantino poster
4.5

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is unforgiving.

Un Andantino

2023

Respirar poster
NR

Julia discovers that she is pregnant with her ex-husband, but he does not know it. He is thirty years old and must decide what to do with the baby on the way. At night, it is not easy for him to sleep, and when he does he has distressing dreams. He dreams that he drowns, that he sinks deeper and deeper and can not get out of the water.

Respirar

2018

Flipper poster
6.0

A man steals his wife's diamond ring and sells it to buy a pinball. Three friends travel to the coast to buy a pinball but are scammed and receive unexpected help. A woman accidentally kills her lover, disposes of his body, and later learns that he might have diamonds on top of him. Three absurd stories of love and crime around the popular machines.

Flipper

2021

No artwork available
NR

Pilar lives in the south. She recently lost her father and is now on her own. María came to visit her, to keep her company and take a break from the boyfriend she's on the point of leaving. Neither has the wherewithal to comfort the other. Neither knows what they want. They barely know what they don't want. They don't want to go back to their lives. They don't want to think about the future. They don't want to be alone. They don't want their holiday to end. A timber yard about to close, a horse and a dog, a few men, a little alcohol and the cold waters of the southern lakes.

What I Love the Most

2010

Leónidas poster
5.0

Portrait of Leónidas Barletta, founder of Teatro del Pueblo, the first independent theatre in Latin America. This film on the controversial theatre director and left wing journalist is constructed from the letters and books Leónidas sent to his young sister María Angélica, godmother of director Miguel Colombo, who decides to leave her brother's legacy in the hands of her godson before she dies.

Leónidas

2019

La Flor poster
7.2

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…

La Flor

2019

Hermia & Helena poster
5.5

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.

Hermia & Helena

2016

The Inner Ear poster
NR

After an accident, Lorenzo begins to hear a persistent ringing that profoundly alters his relationship with the world.

The Inner Ear

2026

The Little Match Girl poster
5.8

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to stage an insane opera; the problems of Marie, Walter and their daughter, who are trying to survive on very little money…

The Little Match Girl

2017

You Burn Me poster
8.0

An adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.

You Burn Me

2025

The Stolen Man poster
5.3

A young Argentinian woman who works as a museum guide uses her passion - reading - as a means of expression to channel the emotional and working lives of those around her.

The Stolen Man

2007

A Day Cut Short poster
NR

As the day begins, a woman sets out to go about her routine, until she decides to take her children to the cemetery to see zombies. When she returns home, this interruption in her day will leave her with a strange and magical feeling.

A Day Cut Short

2025

No artwork available
NR

Film made to commemorate the first 10 years of BAFICI. The film alternates fictional scenes of a couple of spectators in different situations at BAFICI, with interviews and testimonies of important figures in the history of the festival. The first series captures a certain spectator spirit of the festival, while the second accumulates successes, built by reading texts and with interviews with central actors of the film scene in Argentina.

La mirada febril

2008

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe poster
6.0

A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours. Work inspired by the book "Kunst der Farbe" by Johannes Itten.

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe

2024

The Heart of Europe poster
2.0

The filmmaker Julián Pintos and his alter ego find themselves confined to their isolated home in the countryside during the pandemic ravaging Europe in the 21st century and embark on a strange journey of initiation, in which they will meet the mysterious Silver Mask (Myriam) and the two disturbing theatre masks, muses of comedy and tragedy, split into Esther and Diana. The characters are trapped in an enigmatic time tunnel and their only escape is to find the heart of Europe, recalling their respective pasts linked to the Old Continent and bringing to the surface the deepest ghosts and fears that each of them hides.

The Heart of Europe

2022

About Buenos Aires poster
5.0

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its narrative structure. There are several scenes with only the city in common, and more as a conceptual presence at that than as a precise geography. None of those scenes contains a single "story": Each one of them is part of a larger situation that we cannot see, as though the beginning and end of each "story" had to be filled in by the audience.

About Buenos Aires

2006

Everyone Lies poster
5.5

A group of girls and boys in their twenties settle in a country house that seems completely isolated from civilization, invited by Helena, who plans something humiliating for one of the guests.

Everyone Lies

2009

A Blue Bird poster
4.0

For over six years, Javier and Valeria have been trying to get pregnant. At work Javier is approached by Camila, a coworker, and tells him she is pregnant with his baby. In the following days, his relationship—indeed, his entire existence—starts to fall apart.

A Blue Bird

2023

Viola poster
6.1

Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

Viola

2012

Cynthia todavía tiene las llaves poster
6.6

Cynthia takes us through the rooms of her ex-boyfriend's house, while she carries out her plan.

Cynthia todavía tiene las llaves

2010

Buenas noches poster
6.0

A young Brazilian girl travels to Argentina to visit her aunt, but after a misunderstanding and the loss of her belongings, she must kill time until the next morning.

Buenas noches

2025

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