Lisandro Alonso: Frontiers
To celebrate his quarter-century of filmmaking, MIFF presents the feature-length works of audacious Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso.
Alonso’s now-quarter-century of cinema has been defined by meditative, expansive and uncompromised works that blur documentary technique and bend time, form and the known rhythms of storytelling; whose themes shimmer deep beneath still surfaces; and whose rigour has often been imitated but never exceeded.
Double Freedom
In his newest work, fresh from its Cannes 2026 premiere, visionary director Lisandro Alonso revisits his acclaimed debut with a beguilingly rhythmic rural family tale.
Eureka
Alonso’s hugely ambitious triptych explores the collision between Indigenous lives and colonisation.
Fantasma
Reuniting the two ‘lonely men’ from Los muertos and La libertad, Lisandro Alonso’s third film wanders lost through the halls of a run-down movie house.
Jauja
A revisionist western interrogating colonisation, Alonso’s beguiling historical feature reinvents itself with a mystifying final act.
La libertad
Made on a shoestring when the director was just 25, Lisandro Alonso’s groundbreaking first feature gatecrashed Cannes with a hypnotic depiction of rural labour.
Liverpool
A sailor travels through a harsh but beautiful landscape in search of his old hometown and what remains of his family.
Los muertos
Lisandro Alonso’s sophomore feature follows a newly freed ex-con on an upriver trip into the jungle, seeking either redemption or retribution.