Wild Tales

Damián Szifron's Wild Tales (Spanish: Relatos salvajes) competed for the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in May 2014, and as Argentina's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards it earned a nomination at the February 2015 ceremony. At the 2015 Goya Awards, Spain's national film prizes, it was nominated in ten categories, the highest tally for an Argentine production in Goya history, and won Best Adapted Screenplay.

It is built as six standalone short films linked only by their register. The Spanish side of the Spanish-Argentine co-production was led by Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo, and Almodóvar has spoken often in interviews about championing the project after seeing Szifron's earlier work, and about using El Deseo's market access to raise the film's international profile. The six segments were shot over about ninety days in Argentina, each with its own deliberately distinct look.

The cast across the six segments is one of the largest ensembles of any Argentine production: Ricardo Darín, the most prominent Argentine leading man of his generation, with Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Oscar Martínez, Rita Cortese, Liliana Ackerman, Julieta Zylberberg, María Marull and many others. Javier Juliá was the cinematographer. The film grossed over $33 million worldwide on a budget of about $3.3 million, an exceptional return, and it is the highest-grossing Argentine production of all time. Szifron has worked mainly in television and on Hollywood projects since.