Ana Poliak

Editing

Ana Poliak

Born 1962-07-30 · Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ana Poliak (Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 30, 1962) is a film director and screenwriter who, among other films, directed "¡Que vivan los crotos!" (1990), "La fe del volcán" (2002) and "Parapalos" (2004). He studied Drawing and Painting with Anselmo Piccoli and graduated with a specialty in Directing from the Experimental Film School of the National Institute of Cinematography (ENERC), of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts. In 1989 he founded the production company Viada Producciones.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Pin Boy poster
8.3

A country boy tries to find his place in Buenos Aires. He goes to live with his cousin in the outer suburbs and works as a parapalos ("pin setter") in one of the city's last hand-operated bowling alleys.

Pin Boy

2004

Pin Boy poster
8.3

A country boy tries to find his place in Buenos Aires. He goes to live with his cousin in the outer suburbs and works as a parapalos ("pin setter") in one of the city's last hand-operated bowling alleys.

Pin Boy

2004

Pin Boy poster
8.3

A country boy tries to find his place in Buenos Aires. He goes to live with his cousin in the outer suburbs and works as a parapalos ("pin setter") in one of the city's last hand-operated bowling alleys.

Pin Boy

2004

Con la primavera en el bolsillo poster
NR

A young boy dreams and draws about an apparently fictional father figure. He materializes in real life, starring surrealist and colorful scenarios.

Con la primavera en el bolsillo

1985

La fe del volcán poster
5.8

Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.

La fe del volcán

2002

La fe del volcán poster
5.8

Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.

La fe del volcán

2002

La fe del volcán poster
5.8

Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.

La fe del volcán

2002

¡Que vivan los crotos! poster
6.0

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955. For twenty-five years, he wanders with no direction other than the path of the railway tracks, joining the silent world of the *crotos*—itinerant laborers—where he meets "the Frenchman," a mentor who leaves an indelible mark on his life. Back home, his friends and a woman await him, weaving the fabric of their own lives. Sixty years later, facing the camera, he relives his romances and his worldview in a kind of collage of perspectives and dreams, centered on the fundamental question: "Is freedom possible?"

¡Que vivan los crotos!

1995

¡Que vivan los crotos! poster
6.0

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955. For twenty-five years, he wanders with no direction other than the path of the railway tracks, joining the silent world of the *crotos*—itinerant laborers—where he meets "the Frenchman," a mentor who leaves an indelible mark on his life. Back home, his friends and a woman await him, weaving the fabric of their own lives. Sixty years later, facing the camera, he relives his romances and his worldview in a kind of collage of perspectives and dreams, centered on the fundamental question: "Is freedom possible?"

¡Que vivan los crotos!

1995

¡Que vivan los crotos! poster
6.0

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955. For twenty-five years, he wanders with no direction other than the path of the railway tracks, joining the silent world of the *crotos*—itinerant laborers—where he meets "the Frenchman," a mentor who leaves an indelible mark on his life. Back home, his friends and a woman await him, weaving the fabric of their own lives. Sixty years later, facing the camera, he relives his romances and his worldview in a kind of collage of perspectives and dreams, centered on the fundamental question: "Is freedom possible?"

¡Que vivan los crotos!

1995

El eco poster
10.0

A little girl talks with a tramp lady.

El eco

1984

El eco poster
10.0

A little girl talks with a tramp lady.

El eco

1984

Caracol poster
NR

A boy climbs a wall to take a closer look at a snail that slowly moves along its edge and encounters an alien world. Among sheets and white clothes drying in the sun, there are two young girls playing with a bag that floats above them as if by magic.

Caracol

1982

Suco de sábado poster
7.0

Saturday night in the humble house of a working-class family, narrated in parallel between the mother and a night out and the son who lives among street children.

Suco de sábado

1989