Directing
Apr 22, 1983
Buenos Aires, Argentina
María Alché
Directing
Biography
María Alché (born 23 April 1983; Buenos Aires) is an Argentian actress, director, scriptwriter, who starred in "The Holy Girl" by Lucrecia Martel (2004). Her first feature film "A Family Submerged" premiered in Filmmakers of the Present at Locarno Festival 2018 and won the Horizons Award at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2018, Best Screenplay at Lima Latin American Film Festival 2019, Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at Gothenburg Film Festival 2019, Critics’ Award at Barcelona D’A Film Festival 2019 and Best Director at FICUNAM International Cinema Festival 2019, among others.
Feature Films (28)
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
The Holy Girl
An elegant crew of female creatures emerges, like insects, from the nooks and crannies of a river cruise ship. They strut around as 1940s femme fatales while revealing a language, a kind of Morse code made up of clicks and vibrations.
Muta
In a world controlled and timed by the light, a common man has a plan that could change the destiny.
Luminaris
Set in Mexico, Left For Dead is a bloody and sick dream ... A spaghetti western in terror. A desperate criminal will be caught in the ghost town of Amnesty alongside a vengeful demon ...
Left for Dead
Paco is a Spanish boy who lives in Buenos Aires. After many efforts have achieved that always wanted: a stable and profitable work. Suddenly his life is complicated the day his cousin comes to visit and Guille installed for a season ...
Condón Express
A secular man, married outside his faith but living in an ultra-Orthodox area of London, questions his marriage when he meets his best friend's captivating new girlfriend.
Faith and Fidelity
"Three minutes" is a film in the fantasy genre. It is the love story between Alex, a journalist who, forced to speak very quickly in his newscast, must take this substance that accelerates his nervous system and Ana, a young piano student who in order to become a concert pianist, needs to gain speed in her piano playing. They both end up over accelerating and finding each other in a parallel world where everything around them seems to have stopped moving. In this motionless world, they will live their great romance.
Three minutes
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pablo, a screenwriter, is hired to write a new romantic comedy.
Easy Sex, Sad Movies
Television & Series (2)
Tratame bien is an Argentine TV series made by Pol-Ka. It was awarded with seven Martín Fierro Awards in May 2010, including the Golden one.