María Villar

Viola (2012)

Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Alberto Ajaka  •  Esteban Bigliardi  •  Elisa Carricajo  •  Agustina Muñoz

Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Alberto Ajaka  •  Esteban Bigliardi  •  Elisa Carricajo  •  Agustina Muñoz

What I Love the Most (2010)

Pilar lives in the south. She recently lost her father and is now on her own. María came to visit her, to keep her company and take a break from the boyfriend she's on the point of leaving. Neither has the wherewithal to comfort the other. Neither knows what they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Delfina Castagnino
CAST:  Pilar Gamboa  •  María Villar  •  Esteban Lamothe  •  Leonardo Castañeda

Pilar lives in the south. She recently lost her father and is now on her own. María came to visit her, to keep her company and take a break from the boyfriend she's on the point of leaving. Neither has the wherewithal to comfort the other. Neither knows what they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Delfina Castagnino
CAST:  Pilar Gamboa  •  María Villar  •  Esteban Lamothe  •  Leonardo Castañeda

Rosalinda (2011)

A group of actors retire to an island in Tigre to rehearse William Shakespeare’s As You Like It and suddenly Luisa, who is playing Rosalinda, makes a bad decision.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  María Villar  •  Alberto Ajaka  •  Agustina Muñoz  •  Julián Larquier Tellarini

A group of actors retire to an island in Tigre to rehearse William Shakespeare’s As You Like It and suddenly Luisa, who is playing Rosalinda, makes a bad decision.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  María Villar  •  Alberto Ajaka  •  Agustina Muñoz  •  Julián Larquier Tellarini

The Stolen Man (2007)

A young Argentinian woman who works as a museum guide uses her passion - reading - as a means of expression to channel the emotional and working lives of those around her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Ana Cambre  •  Francisco García Faure  •  Daniel Gilman Calderón  •  Sabrina Korn

A young Argentinian woman who works as a museum guide uses her passion - reading - as a means of expression to channel the emotional and working lives of those around her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Ana Cambre  •  Francisco García Faure  •  Daniel Gilman Calderón  •  Sabrina Korn

Everyone Lies (2009)

A group of girls and boys in their twenties settle in a country house that seems completely isolated from civilization, invited by Helena, who plans something humiliating for one of the guests.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Romina Paula  •  María Villar  •  Julia Martínez Rubio  •  Pilar Gamboa

A group of girls and boys in their twenties settle in a country house that seems completely isolated from civilization, invited by Helena, who plans something humiliating for one of the guests.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Romina Paula  •  María Villar  •  Julia Martínez Rubio  •  Pilar Gamboa

The Princess of France (2014)

A year after his father’s death, Victor returns to Buenos Aires in order to reconquer the life he was forced to abandon. He brings a new project with him for his former theater company: a radio-play of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost”.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Julián Larquier Tellarini  •  Agustina Muñoz  •  Romina Paula  •  María Villar

A year after his father’s death, Victor returns to Buenos Aires in order to reconquer the life he was forced to abandon. He brings a new project with him for his former theater company: a radio-play of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost”.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Julián Larquier Tellarini  •  Agustina Muñoz  •  Romina Paula  •  María Villar

Hermia & Helena (2016)

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Agustina Muñoz  •  María Villar  •  Pablo Sigal  •  Kyle Molzan

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Agustina Muñoz  •  María Villar  •  Pablo Sigal  •  Kyle Molzan

The Little Match Girl (2017)

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to stage an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alejo Moguillansky
CAST:  María Villar  •  Walter Jakob  •  Margarita Fernández  •  Helmut Lachenmann

The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to stage an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alejo Moguillansky
CAST:  María Villar  •  Walter Jakob  •  Margarita Fernández  •  Helmut Lachenmann

La Flor (2019)

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…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariano Llinás
CAST:  Pilar Gamboa  •  Laura Paredes  •  Elisa Carricajo  •  Valeria Correa

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…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariano Llinás
CAST:  Pilar Gamboa  •  Laura Paredes  •  Elisa Carricajo  •  Valeria Correa

Respirar (2018)

Julia discovers that she is pregnant with her ex-husband, but he does not know it. He is thirty years old and must decide what to do with the baby on the way. At night, it is not easy for him to sleep, and when he does he has distressing dreams. He dreams that he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Javier Palleiro
CAST:  María Canale  •  Esteban Bigliardi  •  César Bordón  •  María Villar

Julia discovers that she is pregnant with her ex-husband, but he does not know it. He is thirty years old and must decide what to do with the baby on the way. At night, it is not easy for him to sleep, and when he does he has distressing dreams. He dreams that he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Javier Palleiro
CAST:  María Canale  •  Esteban Bigliardi  •  César Bordón  •  María Villar

Leónidas (2019)

Portrait of Leónidas Barletta, founder of Teatro del Pueblo, the first independent theatre in Latin America. This film on the controversial theatre director and left wing journalist is constructed from the letters and books Leónidas sent to his young sister María ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miguel Colombo
CAST:  María Angélica Barletta  •  Roberto Cossa  •  Mauricio Kartun  •  Analía Cabanne

Portrait of Leónidas Barletta, founder of Teatro del Pueblo, the first independent theatre in Latin America. This film on the controversial theatre director and left wing journalist is constructed from the letters and books Leónidas sent to his young sister María ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miguel Colombo
CAST:  María Angélica Barletta  •  Roberto Cossa  •  Mauricio Kartun  •  Analía Cabanne

Isabella (2021)

Mariel wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. With the support of Luciana, who is also an actress, she has already rehearsed the part. But during the audition, Mariel realises that Luciana is trying out for the same role.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  María Villar  •  Agustina Muñoz  •  Pablo Sigal  •  Gabriela Saidón

Mariel wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. With the support of Luciana, who is also an actress, she has already rehearsed the part. But during the audition, Mariel realises that Luciana is trying out for the same role.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  María Villar  •  Agustina Muñoz  •  Pablo Sigal  •  Gabriela Saidón

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DIRECTION:  Gonzalo Tobal
CAST:  María Villar

Tres valijas (2018)

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DIRECTION:  Lara Franzetti
CAST:  María Villar  •  Néstor Villa  •  Andrés Guerberoff

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DIRECTION:  Lara Franzetti
CAST:  María Villar  •  Néstor Villa  •  Andrés Guerberoff

Flipper (2021)

A man steals his wife's diamond ring and sells it to buy a pinball. Three friends travel to the coast to buy a pinball but are scammed and receive unexpected help. A woman accidentally kills her lover, disposes of his body, and later learns that he might have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Szulanski
CAST:  Daniel Alvaredo  •  Fabián Arenillas  •  Nacho Pérez Cortés  •  María Jantus

A man steals his wife's diamond ring and sells it to buy a pinball. Three friends travel to the coast to buy a pinball but are scammed and receive unexpected help. A woman accidentally kills her lover, disposes of his body, and later learns that he might have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Szulanski
CAST:  Daniel Alvaredo  •  Fabián Arenillas  •  Nacho Pérez Cortés  •  María Jantus

The Heart of Europe (2022)

The filmmaker Julián Pintos and his alter ego find themselves confined to their isolated home in the countryside during the pandemic ravaging Europe in the 21st century and embark on a strange journey of initiation, in which they will meet the mysterious Silver ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Juan Pinzás
CAST:  Elke Krüger  •  Katherine Sorel  •  María Villar  •  Juan Pinzás

The filmmaker Julián Pintos and his alter ego find themselves confined to their isolated home in the countryside during the pandemic ravaging Europe in the 21st century and embark on a strange journey of initiation, in which they will meet the mysterious Silver ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Juan Pinzás
CAST:  Elke Krüger  •  Katherine Sorel  •  María Villar  •  Juan Pinzás

Un Andantino (2023)

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alejo Moguillansky
CAST:  Margarita Fernández  •  María Villar  •  Cleo Moguillansky  •  Alejo Moguillansky

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alejo Moguillansky
CAST:  Margarita Fernández  •  María Villar  •  Cleo Moguillansky  •  Alejo Moguillansky

Último Recurso (2023)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Szulanski
CAST:  María Villar  •  Tamara Leschner  •  Germán Baudino  •  Horacio Marassi

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Szulanski
CAST:  María Villar  •  Tamara Leschner  •  Germán Baudino  •  Horacio Marassi

Kunst der Farbe (2024)

A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariano Llinás
CAST:  Pilar Gamboa  •  María Villar

A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariano Llinás
CAST:  Pilar Gamboa  •  María Villar