Ana Katz

Directing

Ana Katz

Born 1975-11-02 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Acting credits

Kiki: Love to Love poster
6.1

Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.

Kiki: Love to Love

2016

No artwork available
7.0

Documentary that gathers the testimonies of more than twenty contemporary Argentine film directors. Through interviews, filmmakers from different generations and tendencies reflect on the craft of directing, creative difficulties, and the challenges of the local industry. The diversity of voices ranges from established figures to representatives of the new Argentine cinema, offering a panorama of the different ways of conceiving and practicing filmmaking.

Directed by...

2005

Joel poster
5.9

Unable to have kids of their own, Cecilia and Diego get a call from the adoption agency they registered to, some time ago. The sudden arrival of Joel, a 9 year old with a very hard backstory, will change the course of their lives.

Joel

2018

Whisky poster
6.9

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

Whisky

2004

A Dog's Death poster
6.6

Mario and Silvia are a typical Montevidean middle class couple, going through the trauma of retirement. Due to Mario’s oversight in what was to be one of his last operations a small dog dies. Shortly after, Mario and Silvia find that thieves have entered their house. They have no choice but to leave and stay at their daughter’s house, where they will enter a spiral of insecurity and paranoia that will drag them to violence and nonsense.

A Dog's Death

2019

Bigli poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bigli

2021

Notes for My Son poster
7.4

Battling terminal cancer, a woman writes a one of a kind notebook about life, death and love for her son to remember her by. Based on a true story.

Notes for My Son

2020

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

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

The Candidate poster
5.6

A team of advisers is brought in to manufacture the image of Marchand, producing social media profiles, commercials and a new public persona. Conflict arises when it is revealed that not everyone is who they present themselves to be. At his country estate, a rich businessman who wants to be president is groomed by a campaign team to create an image palatable to middle-class voters.

The Candidate

2016

The Endless Film poster
5.6

Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seemed unsuccessful and pointless.

The Endless Film

2018

Musical Chairs poster
7.2

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who will do the impossible to honor him in that short stay. At that time, dramatic turns and touches of humor will occur to deep solemnities, within the traditional and beloved domestic bosom.

Musical Chairs

2003

The Red Star poster
6.0

The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.

The Red Star

2021

A Stray Girlfriend poster
4.0

A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.

A Stray Girlfriend

2007

The Teacher poster
6.3

Natalio is a passionate teacher. When Juani, a friend, comes to live in town, the inhabitants confirm rumors about Natalio's homosexuality. The parents of his students do not approve the teacher's behavior with another man and harass the principal so that Natalio does not continue to lead the classroom.

The Teacher

2020

The Film Critic poster
6.5

Víctor Tellez is an intellectual, world-weary film critic who prefers to think in French and eschew the clichés of romantic movies...until he finds himself living a sappy, feel-good love story of his own.

The Film Critic

2014

Por un tiempo poster
5.3

Leandro and Silvina, a young and successful middle-class couple, are experiencing the happiest time of their lives. But the sudden appearance of Leandro's daughter from another relationship, destabilizes the couple revealing hitherto unknown differences.

Por un tiempo

2013

Al Borde poster
2.7

During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are about to fall: the love of a father towards his son choices, the unconditional love of a friend, the homefeeling of a neighbour who's almost part of the family. On the edge explores those extreme experiences that confront us with our prejudgments, exposing them and giving them a new meaning.

Al Borde

2016

Easy Ball poster
6.6

Sometimes the links can be built from the passions. Sometimes those links can become passions. For Hugo, a solitary taxi driver from Buenos Aires, the total, absolute and exclusive passion is San Lorenzo, which is not only an active part of his past, but a healthy obsession that bathes that gives color to his life. Until a single mother and her son cross their path. Now there will be someone to share the passion with. Maybe something more.

Easy Ball

2015

Mother Tongue poster
1.9

Ruth has been with Nora for fourteen years. Everybody knows about their relationship except for her mother Estela, who has never suspected it. Ruth, who is almost forty, feels the need to confess her homosexuality to her mother, who at first is shocked and collapses on the floor. She then feels the desire to understand her daughter, who has hidden an important part of her life from her for many years. So elderly Estela begins to discover the L-World: she reads books and magazines, she tries to meet her daughter's ex girlfriends and she goes to lesbian nightclubs and meeting-places, creating misunderstandings and comic situations. What does Ruth think about this? At first, she is annoyed by her mother's intrusion into her life, but she will soon understand Estela's reasons and she will rely on her to get over her crisis with Nora. This sharp, amusing comedy deals with the difficult parent-child relationship, which is portrayed through irony and without hypocrisy.

Mother Tongue

2010

Fabián canta poster
8.0

Fabian puts together shows at a party room, one of them is a Serrat tribute act. Fabian is frustrated because the belly dancer is the clients’ number one choice. This time, he’ll do whatever it takes to be picked out, even if he has to play dirty against his colleague and test his moral limits.

Fabián canta

2021

Behind the camera

Los Marziano poster
5.5

Los Marziano reconstruye la oportunidad de un reencuentro entre dos hermanos tras un largo período de distanciamiento. Se trata de un relato que trabaja con profunda inteligencia -y con rasgos de comedia- el universo de las relaciones familiares.

Los Marziano

2011

Los Marziano poster
5.5

Los Marziano reconstruye la oportunidad de un reencuentro entre dos hermanos tras un largo período de distanciamiento. Se trata de un relato que trabaja con profunda inteligencia -y con rasgos de comedia- el universo de las relaciones familiares.

Los Marziano

2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet poster
6.4

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

2021

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet poster
6.4

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

2021

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet poster
6.4

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

2021

Musical Chairs poster
7.2

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who will do the impossible to honor him in that short stay. At that time, dramatic turns and touches of humor will occur to deep solemnities, within the traditional and beloved domestic bosom.

Musical Chairs

2003

A Stray Girlfriend poster
4.0

A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.

A Stray Girlfriend

2007

A Stray Girlfriend poster
4.0

A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.

A Stray Girlfriend

2007

Al Borde poster
2.7

During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are about to fall: the love of a father towards his son choices, the unconditional love of a friend, the homefeeling of a neighbour who's almost part of the family. On the edge explores those extreme experiences that confront us with our prejudgments, exposing them and giving them a new meaning.

Al Borde

2016

Al Borde poster
2.7

During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are about to fall: the love of a father towards his son choices, the unconditional love of a friend, the homefeeling of a neighbour who's almost part of the family. On the edge explores those extreme experiences that confront us with our prejudgments, exposing them and giving them a new meaning.

Al Borde

2016

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Despedida

2003

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Despedida

2003

Pantera poster
10.0

A man who works in the park (disguised as the pink panther), sees and wants to approach a woman who casually walks through the same park, taking care of a child.

Pantera

1998

Pantera poster
10.0

A man who works in the park (disguised as the pink panther), sees and wants to approach a woman who casually walks through the same park, taking care of a child.

Pantera

1998