Horacio Marassi

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint

In a tiny rural village in Argentina, Rita Lopez, a pious yet insatiably competitive woman, discovers that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood.

The Rind

An advertising creative dies unexpectedly while working on an idea for the launch of an anti-cold pill. From then on Pedro, one of his old colleagues, begins an intricate search in order to discover the departed's idea, taking over his place and making use of his original notes and thoughts. Along the way Pedro comes across an orphan, a street child that will unconsciously and eventually lead him to a new and singular idea.

Último Recurso

The arrival of a package to the newsroom of a run-down sports magazine triggers an investigation that would indicate that the first World Cup was played in 1926, won by Argentina and for some reason was erased from official history.

The Angry Toy

A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city

Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty

The evil Nasty comes to our world with two objectives -- kidnap Buji, and carry as much candy as possible back to his world. He has the ability to 'shape-shift', and using the appearance of Dibu, he holds up a bank so that he can get enough money to buy the candy. The police wrongly imprison Dibu, who manages to escape and confront Nasty.

Deathstalker

The warrior Deathstalker is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and unite the three powers of creation - a chalice, an amulet, and a sword - lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious purposes. After obtaining the sword, Deathstalker joins with other travelers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. The false king holds the true princess in captivity, and plots to have Deathstalker killed, and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess.

Clementina

Everyone is locked up, but Clementina and the man she's quarantined with won't stop working. We know little about him, and even less about her: we just see over and over again her mysterious face, which seems to defy everything.

The Freshly Cut Grass

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.

Adiós Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the 'Vecinos de Pompeya', a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight, the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio's last possession of value before stealing his heart.

Paytime

An Argentinian money exchanger finds himself involved in a series of problems that lead him on a marathon odyssey against the clock.

La última

Natalio Ledesma is no longer what he was. Nor is his "Egg Emporium." His thousands of chickens mysteriously disappeared one night several summers ago. All except one, Pechuga. It's your only reason to live. It is his last long-term project.

The Star I Lost

Renowned actress Norma Reyes rehearses a mediocre commercial play while her daughter Celeste decides to move out. Despite the stress of the premiere and the pain caused by her daughter's absence, Norma carries on.

Lucky Luke

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.

Man Facing Southeast

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

Extraordinary Stories

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.

Cetaceans

Clara and Alejandro move into a new house. A few days later, he goes on a work trip and she is left alone, surrounded by moving boxes. That chaos makes her accept a series of random invitations that will take her away from the hermetic world she lives in.

So Long Enthusiasm

Ten-year-old Axel lives with his mother and three sisters in a flat in Buenos Aires. They’d be a perfectly normal family if only the mother weren't imprisoned in one of the rooms.

La Flor

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…

Buenas noches

A young Brazilian girl travels to Argentina to visit her aunt, but after a misunderstanding and the loss of her belongings, she must kill time until the next morning.

Rojo

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

El bonaerense

Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and sends him to Buenos Aires city so he can become an aspiring police officer. Soon he will get involved in a new type of corruption.

La torre de Mabel

On a dark night, Mabel follows a pink creature that stalks the town's young girls. As danger approaches, she discovers that she is connected to the being in a disturbing way. Can she escape before her grandmother and the town discovers it? A disturbing short film made in 16 mm.

Adult

Fourteen-year-old Antonio was living with his father when suddenly one day his father didn't come home and didn't respond to his messages or phone calls. Antonio learns from a neighbor that his father has been hospitalized due to a motorcycle accident, and since then he has had to cope with life on his own; in addition to studying for schoolwork and feeding himself, he also has to spend money on fixing his car....... It is not easy to get through to the day when his father is released from the hospital, and Antonio discovers that his father has gone to the police station, and it turns out that the car accident has another hidden agenda...