Ingrid Pokropek

Directing

Ingrid Pokropek

Ingrid Pokropek (Argentina, 1994) is a director, producer, screenwriter and teacher. She directed the shorts Chico eléctrico (2021), Shendy Wu: Un diario (2019) and others. She produced such films as Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella, 2022) and The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi (L. Citarella and Mercedes Halfon, 2019). Los tonos mayores is her first feature.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Trenque Lauquen poster
7.1

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Trenque Lauquen

2023

The Introduction poster
NR

Ana introduces Ezequiel, her new boyfriend, to her parents, in a cabin in the middle of the woods on Christmas Eve. Ezequiel goes into the woods to look for firewood, and when he returns, she notices a change in him that raises questions.

The Introduction

2024

Shendy Wu, a diary poster
NR

A girl from Argentina writes a diary from Beijing. At the same time, she writes another diary--one invented--of what she would be doing if she were in Buenos Aires. Both diaries overlap while the girl, in Beijing, tries to find Shendy Wu, her best friend of childhood,a Chinese girl who lived in Buenos Aires until the age of five, before turning to China.

Shendy Wu, a diary

2019

Shendy Wu, a diary poster
NR

A girl from Argentina writes a diary from Beijing. At the same time, she writes another diary--one invented--of what she would be doing if she were in Buenos Aires. Both diaries overlap while the girl, in Beijing, tries to find Shendy Wu, her best friend of childhood,a Chinese girl who lived in Buenos Aires until the age of five, before turning to China.

Shendy Wu, a diary

2019

Recalculando poster
NR

What seemed like just another ordinary, unbearable commute will turn into a decisive debate for Rubén with the least likely of his companions.

Recalculando

2014

Recalculando poster
NR

What seemed like just another ordinary, unbearable commute will turn into a decisive debate for Rubén with the least likely of his companions.

Recalculando

2014

Chico eléctrico poster
NR

Joaquín has the power to charge cell phones or supply electricity to any device with the energy of his own body, so he takes advantage of it to make a few pesos in a city resigned to scheduled power outages. A laconic and refined comedy, touched by the grace of the extraordinary.

Chico eléctrico

2021

Chico eléctrico poster
NR

Joaquín has the power to charge cell phones or supply electricity to any device with the energy of his own body, so he takes advantage of it to make a few pesos in a city resigned to scheduled power outages. A laconic and refined comedy, touched by the grace of the extraordinary.

Chico eléctrico

2021

Si fuera una serpiente poster
NR

Five strangers have the same dream: a room, a tree, a dance, a secret meeting, and a snake.

Si fuera una serpiente

2016

It's a sand fiction poster
NR

A boy tells a movie to a girl. With his exaggerated, absurd and at times incomplete narration, the boy creates a film that will finally take its own autonomy.

It's a sand fiction

2017

It's a sand fiction poster
NR

A boy tells a movie to a girl. With his exaggerated, absurd and at times incomplete narration, the boy creates a film that will finally take its own autonomy.

It's a sand fiction

2017

The Middle Ages poster
7.8

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes.

The Middle Ages

2022

The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi poster
4.0

A poet dies and another one, younger, feels an obligation to promote her work. She is joined by a team of women filmmakers. The film begins with this unusual triangle but, interestingly, it grows into something more complex and subtle than a traditional research project.

The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi

2019

A fines de agosto poster
7.0

A group of friendly characters get tangled in the streets of Buenos Aires between jobs, infidelities, plays, books and musical instruments. A young director takes refuge in movie theaters and declares a sudden muteness. Despite his own and other people's pressures, he refuses to direct a script that he hates. In the end, he makes an unexpected decision.

A fines de agosto

2021

The Major Tones poster
7.0

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

The Major Tones

2024

The Major Tones poster
7.0

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

The Major Tones

2024

The Major Tones poster
7.0

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

The Major Tones

2024

Clementina poster
4.5

Everyone is locked up, but Clementina and the man she's quarantined with won't stop working. We know little about him, and even less about her: we just see over and over again her mysterious face, which seems to defy everything.

Clementina

2022

In the Dark Park poster
7.5

After a hopeless session in the boxing ring, lusterless Hochman joins an impromptu date with a young woman, with whom he has far more in common than he at first realizes.

In the Dark Park

2019