Adrián Caetano

Director

December 20, 1969 (56 years)

Montevideo, Uruguay

Biography

Israel Adrián Caetano (born 1969 in Montevideo, Uruguay), known as Adrián Caetano, is an Uruguayan film director, producer and screenwriter. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Filmography

7.7

Midnight Family

Marigaby is a medical student by day—and by night, she saves lives with her family in Mexico City's high-stakes business of private ambulances. As pressure from both worlds threatens to drag her down, Marigaby will do whatever it takes to stay afloat.

7.7

Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez

This gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.

6.6

Catfight

Tells the story of four prostitutes and their madama (pimp). Each with a different story.

9.3

Sandro de América

Sandro de América is a series of Argentine biographical, musical, dramatic and romantic television broadcasted by Telefe and produced by The Magic Eye, starring Antonio Grimau, Marco Antonio Caponi and Agustín Sullivan, who will perform the famous Argentine singer and composer Sandro en different stages of his life. The series has 13 episodes and debuted on March 5, 2018, broadcasting Monday through Thursday, over three weeks, as a "unique event" television.

6.3

Togo

Togo just wants to watch his neighbors' homes, wash their cars and clean up their sidewalks. But the drug traffickers want more from him.

7.0

The Lost Brother

Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is informed that his mother and brother were gunned down. He travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a decrepit town in the province of Chaco in northern Argentina to deal with their bodies and to get the life insurance money. There he meets Duarte, a sort of boss in the town and a friend of his mother's murderer who also kidnaps people for money. Cetarti's path will lead him to committing illegal acts to get his hands on the insurance money and to his involvement in Duarte's dark dealings, leading to an absurd and unexpected outcome.

6.6

Chronicle of an Escape

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

7.3

Bolivia

Freddy emigrates to Buenos Aires in search of a more prosperous life. In his native country, Bolivia, he left his family. But the capital of Argentina is not the paradise he dreamed of, and much less for illegal immigrants like himself. But even with that, he gets a job as a griller in a restaurant.

6.9

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

5.2

France

Mariana doesn’t like her name and starts calling herself Gloria. Her parents split up before she was one year old and today, like many separated couples, they are brought back together under the same roof only because they don’t have a decent job. Cristina, her mother, rents a part of the house to her ex-husband for a bit of extra money. “Francia” talks about those people who will never travel far from their home, where they take refuge, for good or bad, from all disgusting things in the outside world. Meanwhile, Mariana puts on her headphones when she hears her parents fighting. Those fights which now serve as a relief to the helpless.

7.3

Historias Breves I: Downhill

A man traveling in his truck on a desolate road...

6.0

Teoría sobre las colonias

A story about metaphor, exploring metaphor rather than a naturalistic or contemporary narrative, avoiding the discursive. It's not difficult to find the parallel between what happens and what actually happened: a family (us as a society) protected by a violent drunk (the government at the time), his wife and son, naked victims of their father's violence and impotence. The well-meaning bourgeois family (the cultural empire of good manners) seems to be restoring order when, in the face of such a situation, what they're actually doing is appropriating what they need under the guise of imperialist civilization. Reading it merely as a vampire story reaffirms this metaphor: out of our ignorance, we despise what conquers us, only for it to conquer us again without hesitation, with morality and good manners on its side.

10.0

Commissioner Ferro

While his investigating some violations, a commissioner of the Province of Buenos Aires looks for the meaning of the task that he carries out.

3.2

Evil Woman

Rosario is a paid assassin who kills men who mistreat or abuse women. When the police capture her, it's the end of the myth. But Maria, a hysteric invalid, saves Rosario in exchange for a different job.

7.0

18-j

A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.

9.0

Histories from Argentina En Vivo

Thirteen short films directed by thirteen directors, based on the recitals of Argentino en Vivo 2.

8.0

La expresión del deseo

Two groups of marginalized people, of different generational composition, dispute the modest geography of a square, in the most perfect synthesis of Caetano's recurring theme: the confrontation of poor against poor as the atrocious symptom of the loss of political consciousness.

10.0

Mujeres elefante

Tells the story of a group of female workers who are locked in a factory because of an invasion of wild elephants.

7.0

A Red Bear

Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damage done.

N/A

Después del mar

A story about hope, despair and disagreement, where a writer and a prostitute, who have lost everything, travel to the south. Looking for answers; driven on paths towards nothingness.