Lucrecia Martel

Director, Writer, Producer

Birthdate: Dec 14, 1966

Birthplace: Salta, Argentina

Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,Lucrecia Martel settled down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She started by directing a few shorts among which Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995), which garnered several awards in the international film festival circuit. From 1995 to 1998, she made a series of documentaries for TV as well as a children's TV programme, hailed by the Argentinian press for its unusual dark humor. From 2001 until today, Lucrecia Martel has managed to make three very personal feature films, The Swamp (2001), The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008), in which she explores her favorite theme, troubled minds.

Lucrecia Martel Movies

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2026 |
Our Land
Our Land
2026
2h 3m
Crime, Documentary, History, Thriller
7.5
Armed men kill Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, a court case opens in 2018. Community voices and trial footage are shown amid colonial land struggles.
2025 |
Cornucopia
Cornucopia
2025
TV-MA
1h 38m
Animation, Documentary, Music
7
A groundbreaking concert experience blending Björk's "Utopia" album with cutting-edge VR and digital theater. The show merges live music and innovative tech, culminating in an environmental message from activist Greta Thunberg.
2018 |
Zama
Zama
2018
Other
1h 55m
Drama, History
6.7
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
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