Lucrecia Martel

Directing

Lucrecia Martel

Born

1966-12-14 (59)

Place of birth

Salta, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter, and producer. She is a part of the New Argentine Cinema wave of contemporary film-making that began in the mid-1990s.

Known for

The South Bank Show poster
5.6

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

The South Bank Show

1978

Marcians poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcians

2017

Zama poster
6.5

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

Zama

2017

The Holy Girl poster
6.6

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.

The Holy Girl

2004

La Ciénaga poster
6.8

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

La Ciénaga

2001

Leagues poster
6.0

Moving between classrooms – static interiors and roaring, raucous exteriors – Leagues explores the subject of academic exclusion in native communities. Named after an archaic unit of measurement, Martel's postcolonial film depicts how education, though a social tool, can also create division and discrimination.

Leagues

2015

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Zama poster
6.5

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

Zama

2017

Zama poster
6.5

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

Zama

2017

The Holy Girl poster
6.6

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.

The Holy Girl

2004

The Holy Girl poster
6.6

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.

The Holy Girl

2004

La Ciénaga poster
6.8

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

La Ciénaga

2001

La Ciénaga poster
6.8

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

La Ciénaga

2001

Leagues poster
6.0

Moving between classrooms – static interiors and roaring, raucous exteriors – Leagues explores the subject of academic exclusion in native communities. Named after an archaic unit of measurement, Martel's postcolonial film depicts how education, though a social tool, can also create division and discrimination.

Leagues

2015

The Headless Woman poster
6.2

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

The Headless Woman

2008

The Headless Woman poster
6.2

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

The Headless Woman

2008

The Headless Woman poster
6.2

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

The Headless Woman

2008

Muta poster
5.3

An elegant crew of female creatures emerges, like insects, from the nooks and crannies of a river cruise ship. They strut around as 1940s femme fatales while revealing a language, a kind of Morse code made up of clicks and vibrations.

Muta

2011

Muta poster
5.3

An elegant crew of female creatures emerges, like insects, from the nooks and crannies of a river cruise ship. They strut around as 1940s femme fatales while revealing a language, a kind of Morse code made up of clicks and vibrations.

Muta

2011

El 56 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El 56

1988

North Terminal poster
5.7

During the 2020 lockdown, Lucrecia Martel returns to her home in Salta, Argentina’s most conservative region. Here she follows Julieta Laso who, like a muse, introduces her to a group of female artists and defiant people who exchange glances and opinions around a fire.

North Terminal

2022

North Terminal poster
5.7

During the 2020 lockdown, Lucrecia Martel returns to her home in Salta, Argentina’s most conservative region. Here she follows Julieta Laso who, like a muse, introduces her to a group of female artists and defiant people who exchange glances and opinions around a fire.

North Terminal

2022

Our Land poster
7.4

In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free. The film combines the voices and photographs of the community with courtroom footage to explore the long history of colonialism and land dispossession that led to this crime.

Our Land

2026

Our Land poster
7.4

In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free. The film combines the voices and photographs of the community with courtroom footage to explore the long history of colonialism and land dispossession that led to this crime.

Our Land

2026

Historias Breves I: Dead King poster
6.2

A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband.

Historias Breves I: Dead King

1995

Historias Breves I: Dead King poster
6.2

A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband.

Historias Breves I: Dead King

1995

Nueva Argirópolis poster
3.2

Snatches of conversation, movements in coastal areas, videos circulating on the Internet warning of a conspiracy. From the Bermejo river basin there are people who sail in camalotes to the islands that are emerging in the Delta. Maybe it’s an invasion, perhaps an attempt at re-foundation.

Nueva Argirópolis

2010

The Empty Classroom poster
NR

Eleven award winning directors explore why nearly one out of every two students in Latin America never graduates high school.

The Empty Classroom

2015

Viennale Trailer: AI poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Viennale Trailer: AI

2019

La ciudad que huye poster
NR

Short documentary about gated communities in Argentina.

La ciudad que huye

2006

Light Years poster
6.3

ZAMA (2017, Lucrecia Martel) didn’t come alone. It brought with her a shooting journal written by Selva Almada –El mono en el remolino– and this documentary by Manuel Abramovich, who, as a sound intruder, captured the meticulous work of the director from Salta and the warm, human, joyful precision.

Light Years

2017

You Won't Get Her, Bastard poster
NR

A historical short film, which was a job for the university.

You Won't Get Her, Bastard

1989

You Won't Get Her, Bastard poster
NR

A historical short film, which was a job for the university.

You Won't Get Her, Bastard

1989

You Won't Get Her, Bastard poster
NR

A historical short film, which was a job for the university.

You Won't Get Her, Bastard

1989

Historias Breves 1 poster
7.0

The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.

Historias Breves 1

1995

Historias Breves 1 poster
7.0

The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.

Historias Breves 1

1995

Maid poster
5.5

A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.

Maid

2023

Maid poster
5.5

A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.

Maid

2023

The Fish poster
4.5

Some fishes dreamt they were a car.

The Fish

2010

Silvina Ocampo: las dependencias poster
5.0

A reconstruction of the life of the celebrated Argentine short fiction writer Silvina Ocampo, which draws on the testimonies of Ocampo's servants and friends.

Silvina Ocampo: las dependencias

1999

The Other poster
4.0

Documentary about the joys and sorrows of being trans.

The Other

1989