
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
5.6The 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Marcians
2017
6.5In 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
6.6Amalia 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
6.8Amid 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
6.0Moving 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
2020s · 2 titles
8.0Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.
Pictures of Ghosts
2023
NRVladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
2022
2010s · 2 titles
8.2An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.
About Cinema
2015
6.3ZAMA (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
2000s · 2 titles
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
NRMaking of documentary
The Holy Girl: Making Of
2005
Series credits
5.6The 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Marcians
2017
Behind the camera
6.5In 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
6.5In 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
6.6Amalia 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
6.6Amalia 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
6.8Amid 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
6.8Amid 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
6.0Moving 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
6.2After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
The Headless Woman
2008
6.2After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
The Headless Woman
2008
6.2After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
The Headless Woman
2008
5.3An 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
5.3An 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
El 56
1988
5.7During 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
5.7During 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
7.4In 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
7.4In 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
6.2A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband.
Historias Breves I: Dead King
1995
6.2A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband.
Historias Breves I: Dead King
1995
3.2Snatches 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
NREleven award winning directors explore why nearly one out of every two students in Latin America never graduates high school.
The Empty Classroom
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Viennale Trailer: AI
2019
NRShort documentary about gated communities in Argentina.
La ciudad que huye
2006
6.3ZAMA (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
NRA historical short film, which was a job for the university.
You Won't Get Her, Bastard
1989
NRA historical short film, which was a job for the university.
You Won't Get Her, Bastard
1989
NRA historical short film, which was a job for the university.
You Won't Get Her, Bastard
1989
7.0The 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
7.0The 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
5.5A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.
Maid
2023
5.5A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.
Maid
2023
4.5Some fishes dreamt they were a car.
The Fish
2010
5.0A 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
4.0Documentary about the joys and sorrows of being trans.
The Other
1989
