Maximiliano Schonfeld

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 Date2011-09-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Director de cine

Episode Count8

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 Date2013-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

The Delights

High school students find their way in life at Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. This striking coming-of-age film takes place against an inviting backdrop of fields of crops, greenhouses full of tomato plants, and the somewhat dilapidated school buildings, where dogs and chickens roam.

Release Date2023-11-02

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count1

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 Date2021-04-08

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count5

Sirenas

Short film by Iván Fund

Release Date2007-03-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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 Date2021-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

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 Date2010-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count1

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 Date2022-04-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Toublanc

Three stories inspired by stories by Juan José Saer. A police officer returns to his hometown to investigate a murder; a teacher complains about a horse that has been abandoned. One day, a man is found dead, and there is no trace of the horse, which is the only witness to the murder.

Release Date2017-04-18

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count3

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 Date2010-03-07

DepartmentSound

JobSound

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 Date2022-02-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Germania

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

Release Date2013-02-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

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 Date2015-08-08

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count1

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 Date2024-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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 Date2023-09-07

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count1

Lo-Fi

How do the interhouse trips sound?

Release Date2011-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count2

Pavón

Argentina short film

Release Date2010-05-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count3

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 Date2011-09-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

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 Date2016-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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 Date2018-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant 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 Date2016-02-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

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 Date2018-11-22

DepartmentProduction

JobLocation Manager

Vote Count2

El ruido del mundo

Three imperfect ways of remembering. The image, the story, the sound; the gestures that survive the noise.

Release Date2014-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

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 Date2020-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director