Lisandro Alonso is a filmmaker from Argentina whose works are provocative and cinematically stunning, but not very well known here in Seattle, where they’ve never been shown. Northwest Film Forum is changing that last bit by bringing Alonso and his four films to Seattle for their At the Edge of the World: The Cinema of Lisandro Alonso, opening Wednesday, November 11 and continuing through November 19.

La Libertad focuses on the ordinary daily life of a simple woodcutter as it ponders the significance of the mundane. Los Muertos follows a man’s attempts to reunite with the daughter he hasn’t seen in the thirty years he’s been in prison. Fantasma is a meta-commentary on his first two films that uses the lead actors from his previous films to ponder the themes presented in them. Liverpool yet again brings a solitary figure in search of his own past.

Alonso will be in attendance at screenings through Saturday and also presents a Master Class for filmmakers and those aspiring to be.