Diego Lerman

Directing

Diego Lerman

Born

1976-03-24 (50)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

34 titles

Known for

The Man Who Loved UFOs poster
6.6

In the late 1980s, journalist José de Zer seeks proof of alien life in Argentina — even if he has to fake evidence — causing a surreal media circus.

The Man Who Loved UFOs

2024

The Substitute poster
5.8

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

The Substitute

2022

The Lunchroom poster
6.8

Lila, a dedicated cleaning staff employee, runs an unofficial cafeteria with her friend Marcela. When she is officially promoted to direct it, tensions arise with Marcela that upset the delicate balance of the office after 30 years of camaraderie.

The Lunchroom

2019

No artwork available
NR

Throughout the 20th century and beyond, the rooms of an Argentinian house are witness to very different inhabitants and mysteries. Filmmaker Diego Lerman takes the opportunity of a TV series to tell different stories in various artistic styles, collectively portraying the many faces and tribulations of one country.

La Casa

2015

A Sort of Family poster
6.4

What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.

A Sort of Family

2017

Maternal poster
6.8

Lu and Fati are teen mums living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows. But the girls’ impending motherhood faces her with a challenging situation.

Maternal

2019

Behind the camera

The Man Who Loved UFOs poster
6.6

In the late 1980s, journalist José de Zer seeks proof of alien life in Argentina — even if he has to fake evidence — causing a surreal media circus.

The Man Who Loved UFOs

2024

The Man Who Loved UFOs poster
6.6

In the late 1980s, journalist José de Zer seeks proof of alien life in Argentina — even if he has to fake evidence — causing a surreal media circus.

The Man Who Loved UFOs

2024

The Man Who Loved UFOs poster
6.6

In the late 1980s, journalist José de Zer seeks proof of alien life in Argentina — even if he has to fake evidence — causing a surreal media circus.

The Man Who Loved UFOs

2024

The Substitute poster
5.8

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

The Substitute

2022

The Substitute poster
5.8

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

The Substitute

2022

The Substitute poster
5.8

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

The Substitute

2022

The Lunchroom poster
6.8

Lila, a dedicated cleaning staff employee, runs an unofficial cafeteria with her friend Marcela. When she is officially promoted to direct it, tensions arise with Marcela that upset the delicate balance of the office after 30 years of camaraderie.

The Lunchroom

2019

The Lunchroom poster
6.8

Lila, a dedicated cleaning staff employee, runs an unofficial cafeteria with her friend Marcela. When she is officially promoted to direct it, tensions arise with Marcela that upset the delicate balance of the office after 30 years of camaraderie.

The Lunchroom

2019

No artwork available
NR

Throughout the 20th century and beyond, the rooms of an Argentinian house are witness to very different inhabitants and mysteries. Filmmaker Diego Lerman takes the opportunity of a TV series to tell different stories in various artistic styles, collectively portraying the many faces and tribulations of one country.

La Casa

2015

A Sort of Family poster
6.4

What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.

A Sort of Family

2017

A Sort of Family poster
6.4

What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.

A Sort of Family

2017

A Sort of Family poster
6.4

What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.

A Sort of Family

2017

A Sort of Family poster
6.4

What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.

A Sort of Family

2017

Maternal poster
6.8

Lu and Fati are teen mums living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows. But the girls’ impending motherhood faces her with a challenging situation.

Maternal

2019

Most People Die on Sundays poster
6.8

David, a young middle-class Jewish boy, overweight, homosexual and afraid of flying, returns to Buenos Aires from Europe when his uncle dies. During his time there, David learns that his mother has decided to disconnect his father from the ventilator.

Most People Die on Sundays

2024

My Friend from the Park poster
6.5

While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.

My Friend from the Park

2015

No artwork available
9.0

Adaptation of the novel La Prueba by Cesar Aira.

La Prueba

1999

Meanwhile poster
5.0

Violeta asks Mono for "a little time" to decide what to do with her partner. Eva arrives in the city ready to do anything to change her life. Meanwhile is the story of "a time," of that time that passes while several stories intertwine in a dizzying puzzle that never quite fits together. A moving description of stories that are woven together by chance, an ensemble account of the uncertainty, despair, boredom, love, and heartbreak that weave urban relationships, a dramatic comedy about the bonds that make up life in the city.

Meanwhile

2006

Meanwhile poster
5.0

Violeta asks Mono for "a little time" to decide what to do with her partner. Eva arrives in the city ready to do anything to change her life. Meanwhile is the story of "a time," of that time that passes while several stories intertwine in a dizzying puzzle that never quite fits together. A moving description of stories that are woven together by chance, an ensemble account of the uncertainty, despair, boredom, love, and heartbreak that weave urban relationships, a dramatic comedy about the bonds that make up life in the city.

Meanwhile

2006

La guerra de los gimnasios poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La guerra de los gimnasios

2004

La guerra de los gimnasios poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La guerra de los gimnasios

2004

La guerra de los gimnasios poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La guerra de los gimnasios

2004

The Invisible Eye poster
6.0

A teaching assistant at a private Buenos Aires school begins obsessively spying on her students in the early 1980s, as the public rises up against the military dictatorship.

The Invisible Eye

2010

The Invisible Eye poster
6.0

A teaching assistant at a private Buenos Aires school begins obsessively spying on her students in the early 1980s, as the public rises up against the military dictatorship.

The Invisible Eye

2010

The Invisible Eye poster
6.0

A teaching assistant at a private Buenos Aires school begins obsessively spying on her students in the early 1980s, as the public rises up against the military dictatorship.

The Invisible Eye

2010

Florianópolis Dream poster
6.1

A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.

Florianópolis Dream

2018

No artwork available
NR

In 1981, Federico Spivak, a declining show producer, is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to bring Frank Sinatra to Argentina. He hopes not only to save the production company founded by his father, Coco Spivak – now in a vegetative state after a stroke – but also to finally earn his respect.

My Way

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No artwork available
NR

In 1981, Federico Spivak, a declining show producer, is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to bring Frank Sinatra to Argentina. He hopes not only to save the production company founded by his father, Coco Spivak – now in a vegetative state after a stroke – but also to finally earn his respect.

My Way

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Adentro poster
2.0

An exquisite corpse that aims to configure a plural vision of the experiences of isolation during the first months of the pandemic. The film consists of 6 fragments directed by 6 different Latin American directors.

Adentro

2021

Suddenly poster
6.0

Marcia is young woman who leads a gray and unremarkable life in the city of Buenos Aires. Mao and Lenin are a couple of punk girls who stumble upon Marcia and for some unexplicable reason they want to show her love.

Suddenly

2002

Refugiado poster
6.0

7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.

Refugiado

2014

Refugiado poster
6.0

7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.

Refugiado

2014

Refugiado poster
6.0

7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.

Refugiado

2014

Ciegos poster
5.6

Juan, a thirteen year old boy, and Marco, his blind father due to the Falklands/Malvinas War, travel to his chilhood town in the north of Argentina. There he will discover an unknown side of the father and will take its own path to adulthood.

Ciegos

2019