
Production
Diego Dubcovsky
Born
1967-06-02 (59)
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Production
Credits
41 titles
Producer. Varsovia Films.
Known for
7.4Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
The Motorcycle Diaries
2004
7.0Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
Truman
2015
6.3Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. Determined to uncover the truth, he begins a personal investigation…
Thesis on a Homicide
2013
6.2Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.
The Mystery of Happiness
2014
6.5Are we what others see, or are we what we allow others to see? Most likely it is the view of others which delimits our own identity, as a young divorced mother named Julieta convinces herself. This evening is like any other: her two young sons are roughhousing in their cramped apartment. They whoop and shout while their mother makes desperately futile attempts at the computer to concentrate on writing a report for work. Feeling intense pressure, Julieta tries to quiet the conflict but finds it difficult without a partner to help. The tense situation changes unexpectedly when her two-year-old falls and hurts himself. In this story of a mother suspected of hurting her own child, the movie investigates themes of motherhood, guilt, duty, the role of men and women, fathers and mothers
It's Your Fault
2010
4.9In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, and wonders when he'll discover sex. Santamaria, middle aged, loses his bank job and is dismissed by his wife; he finds stolen wallets in dumpsters to return to their owners. Ariel tells Santamaria's story to a TV reporter who profiles lives on the street. She's Laura, in a relationship with another woman, but perhaps available. Ariel desires Laura, while Santamaria courts Elsa, a washroom attendant who's husband is in prison. Christmas and Hanukkah approach; can anyone connect?
Waiting for the Messiah
2000
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.4Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
The Motorcycle Diaries
2004
7.0Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
Truman
2015
6.3Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. Determined to uncover the truth, he begins a personal investigation…
Thesis on a Homicide
2013
6.2Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.
The Mystery of Happiness
2014
6.5Are we what others see, or are we what we allow others to see? Most likely it is the view of others which delimits our own identity, as a young divorced mother named Julieta convinces herself. This evening is like any other: her two young sons are roughhousing in their cramped apartment. They whoop and shout while their mother makes desperately futile attempts at the computer to concentrate on writing a report for work. Feeling intense pressure, Julieta tries to quiet the conflict but finds it difficult without a partner to help. The tense situation changes unexpectedly when her two-year-old falls and hurts himself. In this story of a mother suspected of hurting her own child, the movie investigates themes of motherhood, guilt, duty, the role of men and women, fathers and mothers
It's Your Fault
2010
4.9In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, and wonders when he'll discover sex. Santamaria, middle aged, loses his bank job and is dismissed by his wife; he finds stolen wallets in dumpsters to return to their owners. Ariel tells Santamaria's story to a TV reporter who profiles lives on the street. She's Laura, in a relationship with another woman, but perhaps available. Ariel desires Laura, while Santamaria courts Elsa, a washroom attendant who's husband is in prison. Christmas and Hanukkah approach; can anyone connect?
Waiting for the Messiah
2000
6.3A young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.
Alanis
2017
6.6In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.
Lost Embrace
2004
6.4A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life.
The Books and the Night
2000
5.7Dignified, strong and formidable, and oozing erotic attraction: young malambo dancer Gaspar is at one with his passion for dance that he has made his profession.
Malambo, The Good Man
2018
6.6Teresa is a stewardess who lives a perfect life in the midst of his impeccable suits world clean and prepared foods. However the world scares land: men, motherhood, love ... Meanwhile, Julian, a young doctor, must travel to Ushuaia to throw the ashes of his dead wife in the place where they fell in love.
Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven
2002
5.6A professional poker player seeks out an old flame after his marriage fizzles.
La Suerte en tus Manos
2012
6.6They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.
Brother and Sister
2010
6.3A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
Family Law
2006
6.1The story of Julián Lamar, an Argentine actor who tries to get a part in a North American western that will be shot in Argentina.
Cowboy
2011
3.8A rock concert, the irruption of the police, four friends forced to flee quickly and forget their backpack there. Friendship and adolescence combined as one, the future less than a time to travel rather than a space (a city) to discover.
Landscape
2018
A girl, whose father is incarcerated as a political prisoner, is not allowed to draw pictures of birds or anything related to freedom. She will find a way to deliver her message of hope to her father in a very unusual way. Based on a story by Eduardo Galeano.
Pájaros prohibidos
1995
6.8Traída pelo namorado e pela amiga com quem morava, Clara se vê obrigada a procurar outro lugar para viver. Acaba dividindo um apartamento com um homem misterioso, a quem apelidou de Teo, e juntos eles combinam um ‘código de convivência’, com uma regra fundamental: nada de amantes.
Motivos Para No Enamorarse
2009
4.4This is a film that finally approaches our moral meanderings with a true vision. Julio Cesar is a beautiful character who undertakes his life without major worries, even though his life is clearly astray. He simply stumbles along finding his way as the road unravels. Such as life truly is in this part (and many others) of the world, when numerous reasons lead one to put aside moral concerns when a quick opportunity may lead to some personal advantage.
Chicha tu madre
2006
5.9After being fired from his job, Norberto tries his luck as a real estate agent, but he doesn't tell his wife right away. His new boss advises him to take an assertiveness course to overcome his shyness, and Norberto starts taking classes in an acting workshop for beginners. While he works toward the quarterly festival, Norberto fails to get his wife and clients to believe anything he says, but he finds out he is very good at lying to himself.
Norberto's Deadline
2012
6.0Set in a community of project houses, Iris, a young woman with a tough past, meets Renata and feels immediately attracted to her. A tender coming of age story about friendship and first love in a hostile environment.
One in a Thousand
2020
7.0A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.
18-j
2004
5.3After many years away, Ariel is summoned by his distant father to his childhood home in the bustling Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires, known as El Once. Over the course of seven days, during the vibrant holiday of Purim, Ariel seeks to reconnect with his father, who runs a Jewish charity and is regarded as a big macher in the close-knit community, but was frequently absent due to his obligation to fulfill the Jewish quorum of having 10 men present at all funerals.
The Tenth Man
2016
7.0The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives. Unglamorous, yet enchantingly addictive and refreshingly genuine, Acuña paints a confused and uncomfortable world, and makes us want revisit it over and over again.
Swim Alone
2003
6.8Sofía travels from La Plata to Los Toldos, her hometown. During her stay, Sofía will assist her father, who is in poor health, with the funeral work being done by Casa Coraggio, the family business. In the history of her ancestors, each one has had to take on this responsibility and continue a legacy that spans more than 120 years. Amidst an atmosphere of life and death, Sofía struggles between following tradition or choosing a new path.
Casa Coraggio
2017
6.2This film focuses on an aging starlette (Silvia Perez) was once an it-girl. She returns to her hometown for her niece's birthday party and has to deal with her conservative family who does not agree with her chosen lifestyle.
Encarnación
2007
5.2Romina returns to her roots to rediscover who she is. After the first overwhelming years as a mother, it's as if the mist starts to rise: she's a little too old for disco parties and hanging round with twenty-somethings, but still young enough to fantasise about others. Actress Romina Paula points the camera at herself, her son and her mother in this intriguing mixture of documentary and fiction.
Again Once Again
2019
4.7Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.
Burning Night
2020
4.6Mariano, a neurotic young man about to get married, tries to carry out a small scam in order to set up his brand new apartment. Everything goes wrong as his beloved Siam Di Tella ends up in possession of a very eccentric homeless man.
Masterplan
2012
NRAfter years of delay, a long-planned journey finally begins. The filmmaker imposes a quiet rule: only one shot per day. This self-imposed rhythm becomes a daily ritual of observation, recording, and reflection. What emerges is a filmed diary—a chronicle of wonder that maps both external landscapes and internal states. Each image carries a lingering question: what does it mean to continue making films? Through unfamiliar territories, filmmaking transcends documentation to become an act of presence and an attempt to rediscover meaning. The result is a meditation on cinema itself—its persistence, solitude, and transformative power over the everyday.
Chinese Days
2025
6.8Ezequiel is a film music composer that can't find the inspiration he needs to compose a new score and Paula is a pregnant woman recently abandoned by her boyfriend whose mother has just came from Spain to meet her husband. Together they will try to solve their problems.
Music on Hold
2009
5.2The Cenacle, a unique restaurant offers single-table work. In a ruined temple every night there is a last supper. Diners sitting at the table, define something important in their lives. Four stories plus the secret that bond the owners. Superb music.
El espejo de los otros
2015
5.1Body-obsessed teenager Lucas and his mystically-inclined older sister, Gilda, unexpectedly become stranded when they travel to a nearly deserted coastal town to try to fulfill their dead mother's last wishes in whatever way they can.
Family Members
2019
4.3Martina and Manuel cross the border from Bolivia as «mules». Manuel dies with the cocaine capsules inside his body. Martina turns to her father, who she never met before, for help.
Sangre blanca
2018
6.3Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
Empty Nest
2008
5.0Violeta asks Mono for "a little time" to decide what to do with her partner. Eva arrives in the city ready to do anything to change her life. Meanwhile is the story of "a time," of that time that passes while several stories intertwine in a dizzying puzzle that never quite fits together. A moving description of stories that are woven together by chance, an ensemble account of the uncertainty, despair, boredom, love, and heartbreak that weave urban relationships, a dramatic comedy about the bonds that make up life in the city.
Meanwhile
2006
4.0Angel decides to return to his hometown. In an inn on the route meets Dora, and they engage in conversation, but their relationship did not end there. Once installed in the same city, Angel gets a job as a taxi driver will take you to reconnect with Dora. The attraction they both feel continues, even though Angel discovers that Dora is the wife of his boss, a former police officer made in the street, given to sudden outbursts of violence. .
Tres de corazones
2007
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People by Night
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6.6Shy corporate employee Jorge Rizzi's life takes an uproarious turn when he participates in a hypnosis session that rips off his inhibitions and releases a hilarious alter ego.
The Tangalanga Method
2023
6.0Clara is on her way out of the city on a family trip to the outskirts. She receives a message from Martina, her childhood friend, the person she'd been with the night of the tragedy at the República Cromañón club, bringing the idea of motherhood into the foreground. This shot of the present day and reality in a series of WhatsApp texts, home videos and family lunches sparks an exhaustive look back at her own adolescence and that of her friends in a city ravaged by the crisis and by a tragedy.
Clara Gets Lost in the Woods
2023

