PROGRAM
Pedro en el país
International Feature Film Competition
Pedro Catella, a diplomat, writer, and advertising executive, the son of Alicia Eguren and stepson of John William Cooke, recounts in the first person a life shaped by the major episodes of twentieth-century Latin American history. An agent of the Peronist resistance from the age of nine and an elite marksman in the Cuban mountains at seventeen, his personal journey becomes intertwined with the revolutionary and tragic fate of his country. Co-directed by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, this documentary creates an intimate portrait that combines individual memory with collective history. Through Catella’s perspective, the film reconstructs the political tensions, dreams, and defeats that marked a generation willing to risk its life for its convictions.
María Alché
María Alché is a screenwriter, director, and actress. Her debut feature film, Familia Sumergida (2018), premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and won the Ingmar Bergman Award for Best International Debut at the Gothenburg Film Festival, among other accolades. Her second feature, Puan (2023) was co-directed with Benjamín Naishtat. She is the co-screenwriter of Nuestra tierra (2025), directed by Lucrecia Martel.
Benjamín Naishtat
Benjamín Naishtat is a film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film Historia del miedo (2014) premiered at Berlinale. He followed up with El movimiento (2015), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2018 his film Rojo premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Technical Data Sheet:
D/G: María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat
F: Marcelo Lavintman
E: Núbia Campos Vieira
S: Fernando Ribero, Carmen Lavintman
P: María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat, Elisa Pirir, Jesse Cumming, Jim Stark, Nicolás Celis, Bárbara Francisco
I: Pedro Catella
Contact:
María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat
E: maria.alche@gmail.com, benjaminnaishtat@yahoo.com.ar


















