Maximiliano Schonfeld

Big Shadow

A few years ago a man appeared who claimed to speak an apparently lost language: Chaná. Soon dictionaries were published and the language could be completely recovered. This man also located the Chanás in the same place where the Volga Germans live today, in the province of Entre Ríos. Inspired by the book of poems of the same name, Big Shadow is the story of a group of friends who live in German villages while they prepare a film about the new language.

Release Date:2024-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Rituales de registro

An incomplete travel (and sound) chronicle; a place occupied by maps and globes; a recollection of memories instead of the repetition of an imprecise image. In the spaces that remain between these surfaces, Recording Rituals intends to meditate on the relationship between landscape and archive in the construction of imaginary communities and material memory.

Release Date:2023-09-07

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:1

Luminum

Mother and daughter Silvia et Andrea are also ufologists. They run a UFO research group together and stand guard, chasing the lights that appear mysteriously over the Paraná river. Joyously adopting the genre of (science-)fiction, Maximiliano Schonfeld uses humour and affection to paint the poetic portrait of a community.

Release Date:2022-04-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Jesús López

Jesús López, a young racing driver, dies accidentally leaving his town in astonishment. His cousin Abel, a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place in life.

Release Date:2022-02-03

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:5

A Common Crime

Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.

Release Date:2021-04-08

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:5

Tromboneros

Every year, for one week, more than 150 trombonists come from different countries to meet in Santa Fe, a small city on the banks of the Paraná River, where they participate in collective courses and individual classes, and perform and listen to music.

Release Date:2021-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Santa Fe - notas, 2017-2019

Santa Fe - notes, 2017 - 2019 is a story made up of fragments of landscapes, buildings, voices and objects. It is a film built on the relationship between art and the colony, memory and threat, native peoples and silence.

Release Date:2020-09-01

Department:Sound

Job:Boom Operator

There Will Come Soft Rains

In a working-class neighborhood, in the outskirts of a small town, a group of children is faced with a strange and terrifying incident, which will soon develop into a true epidemic: all adults have turned into “sleepy beings”. The children, petrified yet determined, try hard to keep their spirits high and not give up hope that somehow, someday, their parents will “wake up”. As this uncanny drama unfolds, the stories of the “sleepers” are uncovered through the traces of their absence. A poetic and haunting reflection on loneliness and loss, a silent cry for companionship and human touch.

Release Date:2018-11-22

Department:Production

Job:Location Manager

Vote Count:2

Yo pasto de los leones

A young actress directs a casting for a film about the flood in Santa Fe. Between the voices of people, current, past, and her own experience of the landscape, questions begin to arise.

Release Date:2018-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

La siesta del tigre

Along distant and desolate streams, five men start looking for the fossil of the largest feline that has ever inhabited these lands – the saber-toothed tiger –, holding onto the hope of saving themselves through the sale of the bones of the tiger.

Release Date:2016-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Black Frost

Three farmers work on a farm in Entre Ríos, a sparsely populated lowland region of Argentina traversed by rivers. Their crops are affected by ‘black frost’ which threatens to destroy their harvest. One day, a young woman appears at their door; blithely and self-assuredly she begins to influence their familiar routines. The bewildered farmers yield to Alejandra’s interventions: she dons Heribertos’ dead wife’s clothes, accompanies Benigno to a greyhound race and wins young Lucas’ friendship. Shortly afterwards, the frost disappears.

Release Date:2016-02-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Gulliver

After a party, Agos and Ren find themselves in a strange place where they remember to have been before… A failed world bursting with dependences and doors leading to the same yet different place.

Release Date:2015-08-08

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:1

El lobo

The story reflects the lives of several teenagers from a German colony in the province of Entre Ríos, some of whom want to leave, while others choose to stay in the village. Ferdinand, a young German who is in the colony to study its customs, disappears. This fact will shock both young people and adults, as well as the police who will arrive to investigate.

Release Date:2013-08-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Germania

A German family unravels as they are forced to abandon their farm in Entre Ríos, Argentina.

Release Date:2013-02-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:4

Ander Egg

Adolfo, 60 years old, soon to retire, has the only chance to do something important in his life. He works as a public employee in a forgotten agency: Department of Paranormal Intelligence. After a mysterious accident: some children disappear in the river without any trace of their bodies. He, who has not solved a case in 15 years, is sent to Victoria.

Release Date:2011-09-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Director de cine

Episode Count:8

Aún despierta

Carolina is the mother of a teenage girl who arrives to one of the public hospitals in the outskirts of Buenos Aires suffering the consequences of a clandestine abortion. Trying to get to her daughter, she will go thought the whole hospital and this walk be filled with indifference, a sordic wait, and loneliness.

Release Date:2011-09-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Lo-Fi

How do the interhouse trips sound?

Release Date:2011-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:2

Pavón

Argentina short film

Release Date:2010-05-25

Department:Production

Job:Production Manager

Vote Count:3

Argentino Vargas

A retired boxer is willing to do anything to return to the ring and conquer the woman who never wanted to reciprocate him.

Release Date:2010-03-07

Department:Sound

Job:Sound

Verano

Five challenging young men gather in a closed courtyard. The chords of a rock band emerge from the silence that the siesta emanates. Immutable, they play as time unfolds and loses the stability of the present.

Release Date:2010-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:1

Frankenstein

What do a young man in love in the mountains and a caged thrush have in common? A couple of men on a farm looking for a child and a dog obsessed with burrows? A man looking for a friend with whom to share the town's popular festivals and a gang of bikers who don't want to return home? A bath in the north that reflects all the stars at night and a father who remembers the Balkan war? A fox and a desert in Catamarca and the exploitation of lands in Patagonia? The Mapuche resistance, the lost languages ​​and the fishing boats of the Argentine sea? Frankenstein.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Sirenas

Short film by Iván Fund

Release Date:2007-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director