The Agronomist (2024)

Director: Martín Turnes
Argentina, 2024, 72’.

 

CREDITS
Screenwriter: Martín Turnes, Marcelo Pitrola
Cast: Diego Velázquez, Valeria Lois, Ángeles Zapata, Lautaro Zera, Claudio Martínez
Bel, Susana Pampín, Sergio Marinoff, Alfonsina Videla Benzo, María Del Carmen Vivas, Tomás Healy, Keila Burzio, Sebastián Tanuscio “Tanu”.


AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
PREMIO Buenas Pelis Distribución – WIP IBEROAMERICANO
SANFIC INDUSTRI A – Santiago, Chile – Agosto 2023

Screening:

5 May 2026

20:30 – 22:15

CINE…: An agronomist engineer settles in a vigorous rural area to pursue his career as a crop advisor, accompanied by his seventeen-year-old daughter and wife. As they adapt to this new life, his daughter confronts him with a dilemma that shakes the foundations of his work. What seemed like a fresh start turns into a present full of contradictions.

…phil_101: Narrating the conflict between technocratic rationality and personal responsibility, Turnes’ film articulates a contemporary moral dilemma: to what extent can one remain ethically neutral when called upon to implement environmentally harmful systems, and at what point does professional responsibility become complicity?