
Directing
Maximiliano Schonfeld
Place of birth
Crespo Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Known for
Directing
Credits
29 titles
Maximiliano Schonfeld (Crespo, Argentina. 1982) studied film at the ENERC and was assistant director to Rodrigo Moreno and Víctor Kozakovzky. His debut feature, "Germania", premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2012. His film "La helada negra" was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016. His third fiction feature, "Jesús López" ( together with the Argentine writer Selva Almada), premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival in September 2021. He currently serves as president of the Entre Ríos Audiovisual Institute.
Known for
Amid the routine of farm work, Alejandra pursues a foreign worker. Lucas, her brother, pursues her. Jealousy, hidden within the silences of the farm, slowly begins to surface.
Invernario
2011
NRAdolfo, 60 years old, soon to retire, has the only chance to do something important in his life. He works as a public employee in a forgotten agency: Department of Paranormal Intelligence. After a mysterious accident: some children disappear in the river without any trace of their bodies. He, who has not solved a case in 15 years, is sent to Victoria.
Ander Egg
2011
NRDeep in the Argentine outback, a land of makeshift houses and industrial detritus, lives a poor young woman who can heal sick pets and exorcise demons. Or is she actually a victim of her own demons?
Auster
2014
Rocío and Miguel live in Aldea Santa Rosa and work hard in the fields. That same night, they travel to the city separately: Rocío with Sergio, a young man older than her, and Miguel alone.
Entreluces
2007
5.5A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Germania
2013
6.0Mother and daughter Silvia et Andrea are also ufologists. They run a UFO research group together and stand guard, chasing the lights that appear mysteriously over the Paraná river. Joyously adopting the genre of (science-)fiction, Maximiliano Schonfeld uses humour and affection to paint the poetic portrait of a community.
Luminum
2022
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Behind the camera
Amid the routine of farm work, Alejandra pursues a foreign worker. Lucas, her brother, pursues her. Jealousy, hidden within the silences of the farm, slowly begins to surface.
Invernario
2011
Amid the routine of farm work, Alejandra pursues a foreign worker. Lucas, her brother, pursues her. Jealousy, hidden within the silences of the farm, slowly begins to surface.
Invernario
2011
NRDeep in the Argentine outback, a land of makeshift houses and industrial detritus, lives a poor young woman who can heal sick pets and exorcise demons. Or is she actually a victim of her own demons?
Auster
2014
NRDeep in the Argentine outback, a land of makeshift houses and industrial detritus, lives a poor young woman who can heal sick pets and exorcise demons. Or is she actually a victim of her own demons?
Auster
2014
Rocío and Miguel live in Aldea Santa Rosa and work hard in the fields. That same night, they travel to the city separately: Rocío with Sergio, a young man older than her, and Miguel alone.
Entreluces
2007
Rocío and Miguel live in Aldea Santa Rosa and work hard in the fields. That same night, they travel to the city separately: Rocío with Sergio, a young man older than her, and Miguel alone.
Entreluces
2007
5.5A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Germania
2013
5.5A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Germania
2013
5.5A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Germania
2013
6.0Mother and daughter Silvia et Andrea are also ufologists. They run a UFO research group together and stand guard, chasing the lights that appear mysteriously over the Paraná river. Joyously adopting the genre of (science-)fiction, Maximiliano Schonfeld uses humour and affection to paint the poetic portrait of a community.
Luminum
2022
6.0Mother and daughter Silvia et Andrea are also ufologists. They run a UFO research group together and stand guard, chasing the lights that appear mysteriously over the Paraná river. Joyously adopting the genre of (science-)fiction, Maximiliano Schonfeld uses humour and affection to paint the poetic portrait of a community.
Luminum
2022
6.0Mother and daughter Silvia et Andrea are also ufologists. They run a UFO research group together and stand guard, chasing the lights that appear mysteriously over the Paraná river. Joyously adopting the genre of (science-)fiction, Maximiliano Schonfeld uses humour and affection to paint the poetic portrait of a community.
Luminum
2022
NRCarolina is the mother of a teenage girl who arrives to one of the public hospitals in the outskirts of Buenos Aires suffering the consequences of a clandestine abortion. Trying to get to her daughter, she will go thought the whole hospital and this walk be filled with indifference, a sordic wait, and loneliness.
Aún despierta
2011
NRA few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.
Big Shadow
2024
NRA few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.
Big Shadow
2024
NRA few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.
Big Shadow
2024
5.0Along distant and desolate streams, five men start looking for the fossil of the largest feline that has ever inhabited these lands – the saber-toothed tiger –, holding onto the hope of saving themselves through the sale of the bones of the tiger.
La siesta del tigre
2016
5.0Along distant and desolate streams, five men start looking for the fossil of the largest feline that has ever inhabited these lands – the saber-toothed tiger –, holding onto the hope of saving themselves through the sale of the bones of the tiger.
La siesta del tigre
2016
6.3Jesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his town in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place in life.
Jesús López
2022
6.3Jesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his town in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place in life.
Jesús López
2022
6.3Jesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his town in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place in life.
Jesús López
2022
4.0Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by ‘black frost’ which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely and self-assuredly she begins to influence their familiar routines. The bewildered farmers yield to Alejandra’s interventions: she dons Heribertos’ dead wife’s clothes, accompanies Benigno to a greyhound race and wins young Lucas’ friendship. Shortly afterwards, the frost disappears.
The Black Frost
2016
4.0Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by ‘black frost’ which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely and self-assuredly she begins to influence their familiar routines. The bewildered farmers yield to Alejandra’s interventions: she dons Heribertos’ dead wife’s clothes, accompanies Benigno to a greyhound race and wins young Lucas’ friendship. Shortly afterwards, the frost disappears.
The Black Frost
2016
4.0Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by ‘black frost’ which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely and self-assuredly she begins to influence their familiar routines. The bewildered farmers yield to Alejandra’s interventions: she dons Heribertos’ dead wife’s clothes, accompanies Benigno to a greyhound race and wins young Lucas’ friendship. Shortly afterwards, the frost disappears.
The Black Frost
2016
NRWhat do a young man in love in the mountains and a caged thrush have in common? A couple of men on a farm looking for a child and a dog obsessed with burrows? A man looking for a friend with whom to share the town's popular festivals and a gang of bikers who don't want to return home? A bath in the north that reflects all the stars at night and a father who remembers the Balkan war? A fox and a desert in Catamarca and the exploitation of lands in Patagonia? The Mapuche resistance, the lost languages and the fishing boats of the Argentine sea? Frankenstein.
Frankenstein
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NRWhat do a young man in love in the mountains and a caged thrush have in common? A couple of men on a farm looking for a child and a dog obsessed with burrows? A man looking for a friend with whom to share the town's popular festivals and a gang of bikers who don't want to return home? A bath in the north that reflects all the stars at night and a father who remembers the Balkan war? A fox and a desert in Catamarca and the exploitation of lands in Patagonia? The Mapuche resistance, the lost languages and the fishing boats of the Argentine sea? Frankenstein.
Frankenstein
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Snorkel
2005

