The Substitute

'The Substitute' follows Lucio, a prestigious university literature professor who decides to return to the school where he grew up, in a suburban neighborhood in Buenos Aires. He's replacing a position in the department, but soon his work will go much further, even beyond the difficulties of motivating the students who have much more difficult realities than homework. When they find a stash of drugs that seems to be planted to blame someone, Lucio will join his father to try to save Dilan, one of the students, who is being persecuted and threatened by a group of drug traffickers.

The film director Diego Lerman ('A Sort of Family', 'The Invisible Eye') is behind the cameras and is also the author of the story of 'The Substitute', which screenwriters María Meira and Luciana De Mello are in charge of translating into the script.

The cast includes actors and actresses such as Juan Minujín ('The Two Popes', 'Focus'), Bárbara Lennie ('Magical Girl', 'God's Crooked Lines'), Alfredo Castro ('Tony Manero', 'Karnawal'), Rita Cortese ('Wild Tales'), María Merlino and Renata Lerman ('Shockingly'), who for her role in the film has won the Silver Shell for the best-supporting actress at the San Sebastian Festival in Spain at the young age of twelve.

• Drama