Alberto Gieco

Directing

Alberto Gieco

Place of birth

Santa Clara de Buena Vista, Santa Fe, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Alberto Gieco (1952) is an audiovisual filmmaker and theater artist born in Santa Clara de Buena Vista, Santa Fe province. In 1980s São Paulo, he directed the cult film *Punks*, which portrays the punk subculture on the city's outskirts. He has worked as a continuity supervisor and assistant director on more than 30 feature films. Between 2008 and 2013, he was a member of the artist collective Circo de Poesía in Los Angeles. Additionally, he has taught film and literature at Los Angeles institutions such as the University of California, Occidental College, and Cortines Visual and Performing Arts. In 2025, he premiered *El infierno de los vivos*, his first feature film as a director.

Known for

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A young man fantasizes about a woman in a field.

Deseo

1975

El infierno de los vivos poster
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Mariana, 15, escapes the violence of her home in Santa Fe. She embarks on a search for her biological father and takes refuge in an orphanage where she finds affection from a distant relative. On his journey through the interior of the province, he discovers its inner strength.

El infierno de los vivos

2025

Punks de São Paulo poster
9.0

Documentary about punks of the city of São Paulo and its difficulties, struggles and ideals, the importance of music in the universe of its ideology, interviews and images of shows of some musical groups like Ratos de Porão, Inocentes and Fogo Cruzado.

Punks de São Paulo

1984

Chá poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Chá

1987

They Come at Night poster
8.0

In 1986 LA, an illegal immigrant (Elpidia Carrillo) suffers from past tortures in her native El Salvador. Her husband had been killed and her two children taken from her. She was an educated teacher with a philosophy degree, but now is forced to take only the most menial tasks and lives in a roach-infested dwelling. This fragile woman is turned over to a case worker (Barbara Williams), who is recently divorced and is struggling as a single mother to her young son. These two very different women make contact and the therapist decides to help the Latin American find her children. Inquiries leads to the children being in Mexico and with a high enough fee, they can be smuggled into the US.

They Come at Night

1998

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A couple and their daughters try to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite the threats and fears during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship.

En los extremos de la noche

1976

Film credits

Behind the camera

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A young man fantasizes about a woman in a field.

Deseo

1975

No artwork available
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A young man fantasizes about a woman in a field.

Deseo

1975

El infierno de los vivos poster
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Mariana, 15, escapes the violence of her home in Santa Fe. She embarks on a search for her biological father and takes refuge in an orphanage where she finds affection from a distant relative. On his journey through the interior of the province, he discovers its inner strength.

El infierno de los vivos

2025

El infierno de los vivos poster
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Mariana, 15, escapes the violence of her home in Santa Fe. She embarks on a search for her biological father and takes refuge in an orphanage where she finds affection from a distant relative. On his journey through the interior of the province, he discovers its inner strength.

El infierno de los vivos

2025

Punks de São Paulo poster
9.0

Documentary about punks of the city of São Paulo and its difficulties, struggles and ideals, the importance of music in the universe of its ideology, interviews and images of shows of some musical groups like Ratos de Porão, Inocentes and Fogo Cruzado.

Punks de São Paulo

1984

Chá poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chá

1987

No artwork available
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A couple and their daughters try to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite the threats and fears during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship.

En los extremos de la noche

1976

No artwork available
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A couple and their daughters try to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite the threats and fears during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship.

En los extremos de la noche

1976

Un carnaval llamado resistencia poster
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A documentary produced entirely at the El Birri Cultural and Social Center and which continues the legacy of filmmaker Fernando Birri.

Un carnaval llamado resistencia

2025

Un carnaval llamado resistencia poster
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A documentary produced entirely at the El Birri Cultural and Social Center and which continues the legacy of filmmaker Fernando Birri.

Un carnaval llamado resistencia

2025

Un carnaval llamado resistencia poster
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A documentary produced entirely at the El Birri Cultural and Social Center and which continues the legacy of filmmaker Fernando Birri.

Un carnaval llamado resistencia

2025

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Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.

A nuestros silencios I

1979

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Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.

A nuestros silencios I

1979

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Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.

A nuestros silencios II

1979

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Experiments based on a woman dissociated from reality.

A nuestros silencios II

1979

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No synopsis available yet.

La frontera del deseo

2024

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No synopsis available yet.

La frontera del deseo

2024

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La frontera del deseo

2024