Juan Villegas

Directing

Juan Villegas

Born

1971-12-28 (54)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

39 titles

Juan Villegas was born in Argentina in 1971, he is a director, screenwriter, producer and has also worked as an assistant director and editor in both short films and feature films. He studied film direction at the Universidad del Cine, where he currently works as a teacher. During his first period as a director, he made the short films “Rutas y veredas” (1995), “2 en 1 auto” (1998), “A happy afternoon” and “Hugo” (2002). In 2001, he premiered his debut feature, “Saturday,” at the Venice International Film Festival, where he received great recognition from international critics. In 2005, he scripted and directed the feature film based on the novel of the same name by Antonio Di Benedetto “Th…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Freshly Cut Grass poster
5.7

Pablo, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, has an affair with Luciana, one of his students. Natalia, another professor at the University of Buenos Aires starts an affair with her student Gonzalo. Two stories, as two sides of the same coin.

The Freshly Cut Grass

2024

The Freshly Cut Grass poster
5.7

Pablo, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, has an affair with Luciana, one of his students. Natalia, another professor at the University of Buenos Aires starts an affair with her student Gonzalo. Two stories, as two sides of the same coin.

The Freshly Cut Grass

2024

Not to Kill poster
NR

A critical memoir about revolutionary violence in Argentina in the 1970s.

Not to Kill

2026

Not to Kill poster
NR

A critical memoir about revolutionary violence in Argentina in the 1970s.

Not to Kill

2026

Not to Kill poster
NR

A critical memoir about revolutionary violence in Argentina in the 1970s.

Not to Kill

2026

Modelo 73 poster
7.0

On Christmas Eve, three friends buy a '73 Chevy, that ends up ruined that same night. They try (without success) to fix it. Throughout the summer, they live tangled situations of all kinds, until the carnival arrives and, mysteriously, the Chevy starts.

Modelo 73

2001

Normal School poster
5.5

Student council elections are about to be held at a school in Parana, Argentina and the two main parties are putting the finishing touches to their campaigns. As they present their positions to the student body, all the elements of political grandstanding are present and correct: quibbling over slogans, circular rhetoric, the benefits of an attractive candidate and the inevitable final mudslinging.

Normal School

2012

Normal School poster
5.5

Student council elections are about to be held at a school in Parana, Argentina and the two main parties are putting the finishing touches to their campaigns. As they present their positions to the student body, all the elements of political grandstanding are present and correct: quibbling over slogans, circular rhetoric, the benefits of an attractive candidate and the inevitable final mudslinging.

Normal School

2012

Ocio poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ocio

2010

Ocio poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ocio

2010

Miss poster
6.1

Robert Law is 30 years old and lives with the obsession of giving his first kiss and breaking a world record. While taking care of a house in the suburbs of Buenos Aires temporarily, he runs into Laura who accidentally steps on Robert's hand, and unbeknownst to her he decides to follow her through the streets and they strike up a strange friendship, deciding to beat the world record with her.

Miss

2016

Jota Urondo, An Impertinent Chef poster
NR

A portrait of Javier Urondo and his discomforting, sharp and provocative take on the act of serving food. Paco Urondo, his father, was a distinguished poet and political activist, murdered by the military dictatorship in 1976. This is the story of Javier, of how he maintains the Urondo Bar, a restaurant in a Buenos Aires suburb, from where he lends new meaning to a legacy and a belonging and turns them into an act of resistance. A film about food as a source of culture and family.

Jota Urondo, An Impertinent Chef

2025

Adán Buenosayres. La película poster
5.0

Between documentary and fiction scenes, Juan Villegas inquires about Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal’s iconic novel.

Adán Buenosayres. La película

2016

Adán Buenosayres. La película poster
5.0

Between documentary and fiction scenes, Juan Villegas inquires about Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal’s iconic novel.

Adán Buenosayres. La película

2016

Las Vegas poster
5.9

By chance, Martin and Laura travel to Villa Gesell at the same time. They are not together anymore but 18 years ago they conceived their son, Pablo, there. Soon, situations as absurd as they are touching will arise from their encounter. Juan Villegas ventures into comedy and is back at Bafici with a nostalgic, intimate film.

Las Vegas

2018

Las Vegas poster
5.9

By chance, Martin and Laura travel to Villa Gesell at the same time. They are not together anymore but 18 years ago they conceived their son, Pablo, there. Soon, situations as absurd as they are touching will arise from their encounter. Juan Villegas ventures into comedy and is back at Bafici with a nostalgic, intimate film.

Las Vegas

2018

Las Vegas poster
5.9

By chance, Martin and Laura travel to Villa Gesell at the same time. They are not together anymore but 18 years ago they conceived their son, Pablo, there. Soon, situations as absurd as they are touching will arise from their encounter. Juan Villegas ventures into comedy and is back at Bafici with a nostalgic, intimate film.

Las Vegas

2018

The Third Side of the River poster
5.4

Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.

The Third Side of the River

2014

Strange Days poster
3.9

Two young Colombians, Luna y Juan, live in the suburbs of a Buenos Aires without Argentines. Their relationship oscillates between tender gestures and violent explosions. Everything between them gradually gets more intense: their games, fights, recklessness and even their monotony. But something changes when Federica shows up that sets into crisis the fragile nature of their relationship, unveiling the decadence they have gotten themselves into.

Strange Days

2015

Intervened Archives: Cinema School poster
NR

Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)

Intervened Archives: Cinema School

2016

Saturday poster
6.9

One more Saturday in a desolate Buenos Aires hard to recognize. Six young people that try to avoid their solitude by complicating their daily routes, unsuccessfully looking for a glance that changes something or a new sensation that reveals them some sense. A couple used to their common tediousness, a girl who has already decided she wants to be alone, his boyfriend who does not know how to deal with that, a famous actor who does not seem to feel comfortable anywhere and a girl who pretends to get fun without realizing she's always bored.

Saturday

2002

Saturday poster
6.9

One more Saturday in a desolate Buenos Aires hard to recognize. Six young people that try to avoid their solitude by complicating their daily routes, unsuccessfully looking for a glance that changes something or a new sensation that reveals them some sense. A couple used to their common tediousness, a girl who has already decided she wants to be alone, his boyfriend who does not know how to deal with that, a famous actor who does not seem to feel comfortable anywhere and a girl who pretends to get fun without realizing she's always bored.

Saturday

2002

A Week Alone poster
5.7

Maria is a girl in her early teens whose family lives in an upscale gated suburb. Maria's parents are going out of town for a week, and rather than leave her with relatives or hire a babysitter, Maria is put in charge of looking after her little sister Sofia, with housekeeper Esther serving as a nominal adult authority figure, though for the most part she lets Maria and the others do what they please. With only their parents bedroom off-limits, Maria and Sofia have the run of the house, and soon they and their friends Facundo, Quique, Rodrigo and Timmy are spending their days exploring the place. As the kids begin creating their own rules to run counter to the ones their absent parents set down, Esther brings a young relative, Fernando, to play with them, and the privileged kids begin to get a notion of the ways of the outside world.

A Week Alone

2009

A Week Alone poster
5.7

Maria is a girl in her early teens whose family lives in an upscale gated suburb. Maria's parents are going out of town for a week, and rather than leave her with relatives or hire a babysitter, Maria is put in charge of looking after her little sister Sofia, with housekeeper Esther serving as a nominal adult authority figure, though for the most part she lets Maria and the others do what they please. With only their parents bedroom off-limits, Maria and Sofia have the run of the house, and soon they and their friends Facundo, Quique, Rodrigo and Timmy are spending their days exploring the place. As the kids begin creating their own rules to run counter to the ones their absent parents set down, Esther brings a young relative, Fernando, to play with them, and the privileged kids begin to get a notion of the ways of the outside world.

A Week Alone

2009

2 in 1 car poster
4.3

A couple in a car, starting with a cigarette, begins a discussion as ridiculous as interesting. The lack of communication and lack of harmony, attributes that are exploited in love (or lack thereof).

2 in 1 car

1998

2 in 1 car poster
4.3

A couple in a car, starting with a cigarette, begins a discussion as ridiculous as interesting. The lack of communication and lack of harmony, attributes that are exploited in love (or lack thereof).

2 in 1 car

1998

Los trabajos y los días poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los trabajos y los días

2019

Los trabajos y los días poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los trabajos y los días

2019

Victoria poster
5.3

Victoria Morán is 36 years old. She has a family, a husband, a daughter, dogs and a house. And Victoria sings wonderfully well. She sings tangos and songs from other regions of Latin America. This is the portrait of a year of her life. Singing and life as part of an indivisible universe. A reflection on the complex links between money and art, between the intimate and the professional.

Victoria

2015

Victoria poster
5.3

Victoria Morán is 36 years old. She has a family, a husband, a daughter, dogs and a house. And Victoria sings wonderfully well. She sings tangos and songs from other regions of Latin America. This is the portrait of a year of her life. Singing and life as part of an indivisible universe. A reflection on the complex links between money and art, between the intimate and the professional.

Victoria

2015

Victoria poster
5.3

Victoria Morán is 36 years old. She has a family, a husband, a daughter, dogs and a house. And Victoria sings wonderfully well. She sings tangos and songs from other regions of Latin America. This is the portrait of a year of her life. Singing and life as part of an indivisible universe. A reflection on the complex links between money and art, between the intimate and the professional.

Victoria

2015

Buscando a Panzeri poster
7.0

Panzeri was an honest man, a critical journalist, a freethinker. He faced power and died alone and forgotten. Kohan is an outsider obsessed with doing justice, getting Panzeri out of ostracism and bringing him back to this world. Without Panzeri, football has only a few days to live.

Buscando a Panzeri

2020

Una tarde feliz poster
8.0

Short movie about communications and our expectations.

Una tarde feliz

2002

Una tarde feliz poster
8.0

Short movie about communications and our expectations.

Una tarde feliz

2002

Una tarde feliz poster
8.0

Short movie about communications and our expectations.

Una tarde feliz

2002

Los suicidas poster
8.0

Daniel is a journalist who is commissioned to write an article based on a photograph of a presumed suicide. As he begins his investigation, he meets Marcela, the enigmatic photographer assigned to him as a colleague, with whom he has never had a relationship before, and with whom he slowly begins to fall in love.

Los suicidas

2006

Los suicidas poster
8.0

Daniel is a journalist who is commissioned to write an article based on a photograph of a presumed suicide. As he begins his investigation, he meets Marcela, the enigmatic photographer assigned to him as a colleague, with whom he has never had a relationship before, and with whom he slowly begins to fall in love.

Los suicidas

2006