Matías Gueilburt

Directing

Matías Gueilburt

Place of birth

Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song poster
5.3

A documentary film that observes, listens to, and interacts with Fito Páez from a place of profound intimacy. The camera, almost invisible, witnesses his every move, accompanying him for over a year during recordings, rehearsals, tours, and performances in major cities across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. It is also a journey through the life of one of the greatest Spanish-language artists: his loves and heartbreaks, children and friendships, excesses, tragedies, failures, and successes.

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song

2026

Dangerous Play poster
6.2

Copa Libertadores, 1989. A true story about football, corruption and the power of Pablo Escobar and his cartel, told by its protagonists: five referees who resisted the dramatic weight of an era.

Dangerous Play

2022

Ernesto Guevara, also known as "Che" poster
8.0

From millions of photos, posters, videos, t-shirts, postcards, records, books, phrases, testimonies, Che watches over us. Beyond all paraphernalia, he returns. Irreverent, mocking, stubborn - morally stubborn - Che will always be the subject of debate. The exclusive teleSUR series “Ernesto Guevara, also known as 'Che'”, aims to address the figure of Ernesto Guevara as it has never been told before. Conversing with the characters who were with him in important moments, visiting the real settings where Che spent his life.

Ernesto Guevara, also known as "Che"

2015

The Alamo poster
NR

Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II reconstructs one of the most remarkable founding myths of the United States of America: the epic battle of the Alamo, a fortified former Spanish mission near San Antonio de Béjar, in which a group of secessionist Texans withstood for thirteen days the merciless assaults of the Mexican army of President General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

The Alamo

2012

Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist poster
6.6

Through candid interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina's most notorious bank heist detail how — and why — they carried out the radical 2006 operation.

Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist

2022

Illusions for Sale: The Rise and Fall of Generation Zoe poster
7.0

This documentary follows the rise and fall of Generation Zoe, a spiritual coaching network hiding the most unusual scam in Argentina's history.

Illusions for Sale: The Rise and Fall of Generation Zoe

2024

Film credits

Behind the camera

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song poster
5.3

A documentary film that observes, listens to, and interacts with Fito Páez from a place of profound intimacy. The camera, almost invisible, witnesses his every move, accompanying him for over a year during recordings, rehearsals, tours, and performances in major cities across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. It is also a journey through the life of one of the greatest Spanish-language artists: his loves and heartbreaks, children and friendships, excesses, tragedies, failures, and successes.

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song

2026

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song poster
5.3

A documentary film that observes, listens to, and interacts with Fito Páez from a place of profound intimacy. The camera, almost invisible, witnesses his every move, accompanying him for over a year during recordings, rehearsals, tours, and performances in major cities across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. It is also a journey through the life of one of the greatest Spanish-language artists: his loves and heartbreaks, children and friendships, excesses, tragedies, failures, and successes.

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song

2026

Dangerous Play poster
6.2

Copa Libertadores, 1989. A true story about football, corruption and the power of Pablo Escobar and his cartel, told by its protagonists: five referees who resisted the dramatic weight of an era.

Dangerous Play

2022

Ernesto Guevara, also known as "Che" poster
8.0

From millions of photos, posters, videos, t-shirts, postcards, records, books, phrases, testimonies, Che watches over us. Beyond all paraphernalia, he returns. Irreverent, mocking, stubborn - morally stubborn - Che will always be the subject of debate. The exclusive teleSUR series “Ernesto Guevara, also known as 'Che'”, aims to address the figure of Ernesto Guevara as it has never been told before. Conversing with the characters who were with him in important moments, visiting the real settings where Che spent his life.

Ernesto Guevara, also known as "Che"

2015

Ernesto Guevara, also known as "Che" poster
8.0

From millions of photos, posters, videos, t-shirts, postcards, records, books, phrases, testimonies, Che watches over us. Beyond all paraphernalia, he returns. Irreverent, mocking, stubborn - morally stubborn - Che will always be the subject of debate. The exclusive teleSUR series “Ernesto Guevara, also known as 'Che'”, aims to address the figure of Ernesto Guevara as it has never been told before. Conversing with the characters who were with him in important moments, visiting the real settings where Che spent his life.

Ernesto Guevara, also known as "Che"

2015

The Alamo poster
NR

Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II reconstructs one of the most remarkable founding myths of the United States of America: the epic battle of the Alamo, a fortified former Spanish mission near San Antonio de Béjar, in which a group of secessionist Texans withstood for thirteen days the merciless assaults of the Mexican army of President General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

The Alamo

2012

Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist poster
6.6

Through candid interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina's most notorious bank heist detail how — and why — they carried out the radical 2006 operation.

Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist

2022

Illusions for Sale: The Rise and Fall of Generation Zoe poster
7.0

This documentary follows the rise and fall of Generation Zoe, a spiritual coaching network hiding the most unusual scam in Argentina's history.

Illusions for Sale: The Rise and Fall of Generation Zoe

2024

Patria poster
7.0

Paco Ignacio Taibo II brings his book trilogy to life, highlighting Mexico's history in 1854-1867, a period he considers foundational to the country.

Patria

2019

Sovereignity Operation poster
NR

When the fight against a supposed subversive threat seems not to be enough to ensure national unity, the Argentine military dictatorship rekindles the extinguished fire of an old border dispute with Chile in order to make the nation close ranks around the criminal regime: the chronicle of an internal political conflict that was about to turn into a bloody war.

Sovereignity Operation

2007

Before We Are Forgotten poster
5.0

In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 people have died violently and thousands were forced into exile, kidnapped or disappeared.

Before We Are Forgotten

2013

Before We Are Forgotten poster
5.0

In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 people have died violently and thousands were forced into exile, kidnapped or disappeared.

Before We Are Forgotten

2013

Before We Are Forgotten poster
5.0

In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 people have died violently and thousands were forced into exile, kidnapped or disappeared.

Before We Are Forgotten

2013

Carapintadas poster
NR

The Carapintadas, so named for their use of camouflage paint, were far-right military activists who staged uprisings between 1987 and 1990 against the constitutional governments of Raúl Alfonsín and later Carlos Menem in Argentina. Narrated using archival television, radio, and print footage, Carapintadas reconstructs the group's uprisings to halt the trials of those responsible for the military dictatorship.

Carapintadas

2010

Carapintadas poster
NR

The Carapintadas, so named for their use of camouflage paint, were far-right military activists who staged uprisings between 1987 and 1990 against the constitutional governments of Raúl Alfonsín and later Carlos Menem in Argentina. Narrated using archival television, radio, and print footage, Carapintadas reconstructs the group's uprisings to halt the trials of those responsible for the military dictatorship.

Carapintadas

2010

Malvinas: La retirada poster
7.0

In the midst of a profound economic, political, and social crisis, in April 1982, the armed forces led by the then de facto president, the alcoholic General Leopoldo Galtieri, launched the reconquest of the Falkland Islands. This marked the beginning of a military adventure in the South Atlantic against a world power that laid bare the errors and horrors of the Argentine military regime. This documentary depicts the final act of a bloody dictatorship.

Malvinas: La retirada

2007

Democracy poster
6.0

1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina

Democracy

2008

Olmedo poster
NR

The artist who made a whole country laugh. A journey by his professional and personal life, a trajectory that is confused with the history of the television and the cinema in Argentina.

Olmedo

2008

Che: The Last Days poster
NR

The chronicle of the revolutionary campaign of Che Guevara in Bolivia (1966-67), which has remained placed in his famous diary.

Che: The Last Days

2007

Crisis 2001 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Crisis 2001

2011

Hitler’s Escape poster
7.0

Recent DNA and ballistics evidence have raised new questions and suspicions about Adolf Hitler's death. Hitler's Escape—filmed in Europe and Argentina—revisits these questions, examining the hypothesis of his secret escape to Patagonia. By challenging the official story of his suicide, it opens up the mystery of his final whereabouts.

Hitler’s Escape

2010

Hitler’s Escape poster
7.0

Recent DNA and ballistics evidence have raised new questions and suspicions about Adolf Hitler's death. Hitler's Escape—filmed in Europe and Argentina—revisits these questions, examining the hypothesis of his secret escape to Patagonia. By challenging the official story of his suicide, it opens up the mystery of his final whereabouts.

Hitler’s Escape

2010

Mexican Revolution poster
NR

Ten years of war (1910-20), more than one million dead. The struggle for political freedom is gradually transformed into a struggle for land and resources with the appearance of mythical figures such as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. With the roar of the battlefields silenced, today's Mexico emerges from the ruins left by the first great popular revolution of the 20th century.

Mexican Revolution

2007

Evita poster
6.0

Eva Perón, a champion of women's rights and social justice, was considered the most powerful woman of her time, and she and her husband Domingo Perón, President of Argentina, were a legendary couple.

Evita

2009

Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score poster
7.3

For more than forty years, Argentinean sportsman Guillermo Vilas, a tennis legend, has tirelessly demanded that the official rankings (1973-78) be revised in order to finally be recognized as the best player in the world. Eduardo Puppo, a sports journalist, making Vilas' demand his own, fought for more than ten years against a powerful sports corporation to prove that Vilas was indeed unfairly displaced from the top of world tennis.

Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score

2020

Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score poster
7.3

For more than forty years, Argentinean sportsman Guillermo Vilas, a tennis legend, has tirelessly demanded that the official rankings (1973-78) be revised in order to finally be recognized as the best player in the world. Eduardo Puppo, a sports journalist, making Vilas' demand his own, fought for more than ten years against a powerful sports corporation to prove that Vilas was indeed unfairly displaced from the top of world tennis.

Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score

2020

El Che poster
6.3

Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary leader has passed and interviews people who knew Che, making revelations about this important figure in Cuba's political history.

El Che

2017

La Red Nazi en México poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Red Nazi en México

2010

Butch Cassidy poster
NR

The story of Robert LeRoy Parker (1866-1908), alias Butch Cassidy, one of the most wanted fugitives of the American West, and his journey through Argentine Patagonia; the story of a man who flees to the lands of the end of the world to start over.

Butch Cassidy

2004

The Blow: Chronicle of a Conspiracy poster
7.0

Argentina, 1973. The return of democracy marks the beginning of a new countdown to the next coup d'état: on March 24, 1976, the worst dictatorship in Argentine history is installed, the bitter fruit of a plot carefully hatched for months.

The Blow: Chronicle of a Conspiracy

2006

Border poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Border

2009

Pancho Villa: Here and There poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pancho Villa: Here and There

2008

The Battle of the La Plata River poster
NR

Year 1939. In the La Plata river, off the coasts of Uruguay and Argentina, the first naval battle of World War II is being fought. Surrounded by British enemy ships, the captain of the German battleship Graf Spee must make a dramatic decision.

The Battle of the La Plata River

2004

El representante de dios poster
NR

It chronicles the meteoric rise, fall and comeback of soccer manager Coppola. Told by himself with a voiceover and with a unique style where the oral register and the pleasure of the anecdote predominate. An intimate journey.

El representante de dios

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Legendary Bandits of Mexico

2010

The Assassination of Leon Trotsky poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

2009

No artwork available
7.0

19 of September of 1985. The Earth shakes under the City of Mexico. A morning of terror that leaves thousands of deads. The worse catastrophe lived by the Mexican capital makes visible the solidarity of the population and the negligence of the authorities.

Earthquake of Mexico

2008

Fontanarrosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fontanarrosa

2008

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death poster
8.0

More than 50 years ago, Nazi scientists conducted experiments to prolong Hitler's life. Joseph Mengele, a Nazi doctor who participated in the experiments, took refuge in Argentina after the war. Argentine writer Carlos de Napoli, who discovered the memorandum in which Mengele described the steps necessary to obtain the "Formula for Eternal Youth," traveled across Argentina and Germany, investigating the Third Reich's sinister experiments and persistent obsession with beauty and youth.

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death

2010

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death poster
8.0

More than 50 years ago, Nazi scientists conducted experiments to prolong Hitler's life. Joseph Mengele, a Nazi doctor who participated in the experiments, took refuge in Argentina after the war. Argentine writer Carlos de Napoli, who discovered the memorandum in which Mengele described the steps necessary to obtain the "Formula for Eternal Youth," traveled across Argentina and Germany, investigating the Third Reich's sinister experiments and persistent obsession with beauty and youth.

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death

2010