Santiago Sein
Santiago SEIN (1975, Argentina) is a filmmaker from Córdoba and a graduate of the National University of Córdoba (UNC), where he teaches in the Cinema and TV programme. He is Director of the Audiovisual Production Center of the Faculty of Fine Arts and of the university’s Audiovisual Documentation Center. His work spans feature films, documentary television and research-based audiovisual projects. His feature Yo no es otro (2021) was selected for BAFICI, and he has directed more than 10 documentary series for Canal Encuentro and TV Pública, addressing social history, memory and political processes in Argentina. His latest documentary Para hacer una película solo hace falta un arma (2026) continues this line of inquiry.
Filmography
(selection) El Cordobazo (2009, co-dir, doc), El camino de la justicia (2015, TV, co-dir, doc), Yo no es otro (2021), Para hacer una película solo hace falta un arma (2026, doc)
Santiago Sein at IFFR
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Para hacer una película solo hace falta un arma
Santiago Sein | 159' | Argentina | World premiere
A chapter of Argentinian film history forgotten by books and forsaken by its participants – finally remembered.