Jonathan Perel

Argentine producer and director Jonathan Perel (1976) has studied art at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature in Buenos Aires. In his films, he often returns to the period of dictatorship that marked his childhood. He examines the painful history of his homeland at the sites of actual events in 17 Monuments (2012), Toponyms (2015), and the current documentary Corporate Responsibility (2020), premièred at this year’s Berlinale.