Federico Luis

Argentine director and screenwriter born in 1990 in Buenos Aires. With a degree in Social Communication from the University of Buenos Aires, his short film ‘The Nap’ (2019) had its international premiere in the Official Selection at Cannes, won Best Short Film at Bafici, and received an honorable mention at Toronto International Film Festival. In 2023, he received the IDFA Best Short Film Award in Amsterdam for ‘At That Very Moment’, and that same year, ‘Stay Still or I’ll Love You’ was recognized as Best Short Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. His first feature film, Simon of the Mountain’ (2024), won the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and the Cinevision competition at the Munich Film Festival. He is currently developing his second feature film, ‘El entrenador de perros’.