Martín Benchimol

Directing

Martín Benchimol

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Martín Benchimol (Argentina, 1985) is a film director, screenwriter and cinematographer who graduated from and teaches at the University of Buenos Aires. Alongside Pablo Aparo, he directed the documentaries The Dread (2017) and The River People (2012). In 2022, he released the short film A Robust Heart.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Dread poster
6.6

The villagers of El Dorado, Argentina, shy away from doctors. Then again, they hardly need one. They have almost as many cures for ailments and illnesses as there are residents in the village. 65 year old Jorge can also cure the most dreaded ailment of them all, the much feared espanto.

The Dread

2017

The Dread poster
6.6

The villagers of El Dorado, Argentina, shy away from doctors. Then again, they hardly need one. They have almost as many cures for ailments and illnesses as there are residents in the village. 65 year old Jorge can also cure the most dreaded ailment of them all, the much feared espanto.

The Dread

2017

El malestar poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El malestar

2022

El malestar poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El malestar

2022

The Castle poster
6.3

Having worked as a housekeeper all her life, Justina inherits from her former employer a mansion in the middle of the Argentinian pampas. Under one condition: she must never leave. In this modern fairy tale, Justina and her daughter Alexia will face the challenges of keeping that promise alive.

The Castle

2023

The Castle poster
6.3

Having worked as a housekeeper all her life, Justina inherits from her former employer a mansion in the middle of the Argentinian pampas. Under one condition: she must never leave. In this modern fairy tale, Justina and her daughter Alexia will face the challenges of keeping that promise alive.

The Castle

2023

The river people poster
5.3

Ernestina is a small town of 150 people whose peculiar inhabitants are deeply concerned by the acts of vandalism perpetrated by the people who go bathe in the river. They decide to hire private security. What is really going on in Ernestina? A suspenseful, humorous and endearing documentary about the dynamics of these small-town people.

The river people

2013

The river people poster
5.3

Ernestina is a small town of 150 people whose peculiar inhabitants are deeply concerned by the acts of vandalism perpetrated by the people who go bathe in the river. They decide to hire private security. What is really going on in Ernestina? A suspenseful, humorous and endearing documentary about the dynamics of these small-town people.

The river people

2013

The river people poster
5.3

Ernestina is a small town of 150 people whose peculiar inhabitants are deeply concerned by the acts of vandalism perpetrated by the people who go bathe in the river. They decide to hire private security. What is really going on in Ernestina? A suspenseful, humorous and endearing documentary about the dynamics of these small-town people.

The river people

2013

A Robust Heart poster
NR

Against a pristine blue background, butchers working in an Argentine abattoir talk about their work—how to cut a heart from a carcass, for example—but mostly about their private lives. With the fresh blood still on their white aprons, they engage in short conversations that touch on fathers and children (or their absence), on motivations and on deepest fears.

A Robust Heart

2022