Coco´s Moon

Coco's Moon is a feature-length fiction film that tells the story of a man who falls in love with the Moon.
What hidden desires manifest in a being who seeks love in the cosmos?
A dramatic comedy that flirts with magical realism and absurdity, typical of the Selenophilic relationship of Coco - our protagonist - and the chaos in the family and social world.

  • Javier Alejo Lester
    Director
  • Javier Alejo Lester
    Writer
  • Jorgelina Rivas
    Writer
  • Guillermina Salas
    Producer
  • Wenceslao Vulcano
    First assistant director
  • Norberto Lanfranqui
    Key Cast
    "Coco"
  • Victor Laplace
    Key Cast
    "Quique"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La luna de Coco
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Fiction, Comedy, Magical realism, Absurd
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 5 minutes 36 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 10, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Noida International FilmFestival 2025
    NOida
    India
    February 2, 2025
    official selection
  • Arjuntala Film Festival
    Borisal
    Bangladesh
    May 15, 2025
    Best Comedy dramatic
Distribution Information
  • Independent
    Country: Argentina
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Javier Alejo Lester

Javier Lester Abálsamo.
Theater artist, graduated as a Theater Professor from the Faculty of Arts of the National University of the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires, currently works in the Chair of Interpretation III of the career as JTP.
In the year 2024-2025, he is studying the Master's Degree in Acting at the Faculty of Arts.
He is training as a physical actor, director, mime, puppeteer, juggler, musician and playwright.
He studies at Moveo, School of Dramatic Corporal Mime and Physical Theater, in Barcelona. 2014-2015
He certifies more than 50 theater productions in different roles obtaining recognition, tours and participation in National and international Festivals and meetings.
During 2012-2013 he recorded Latin America 365 days with the Quatro Quijotes Project, performing shows and workshops.
During his stay in Switzerland, 2015, he presents “Eloge de l´Imperfection” by the Le lune verte Company, touring France, Switzerland and Barcelona.
He is part of the El Templo Teatro company from the city of Tandil, with 14 years of experience. His shows, with their own dramaturgy, have toured various stages in Latin America and Europe.
Currently, he directs the “Toc” physical theater company from the city of Tandil and creates “Ir yendo”, a show that participates in the National Theater Festival in La Pampa, 2021.
In cinema, he stars alongside Victor Laplace and Gastón Pauls in “El Plan divino” 2018 and in 2011 “Terra Ribelle” an Italo Argentine production.
In 2023, he writes and directs the film “La Luna de Coco”, his first work together with actors and directors from the city of Tandil.
He is currently working on the fiction project "El sueño amontonado", a feature-length comedy drama.

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Director Statement

“…Something like having a small boat, getting 30 people on board, going out to drift at night, in unfavorable weather, it is always like that for us, not having a map or a compass rose or food for the entire crew, with a lot of doubts about whether the wood will survive the first wave or some sea creature will eat us during Odyssey…” Why do they leave?
What need to leave everything behind?
To get to where?
It will be, once again, like a small belief, which continues to move the subtle internally over the dense.
Like Coco, we took chances. We made a film -practically- without money.
8 months of pre-production.
3 weeks of recording.
6 months of post.
A feature film was made in Tandil, made up of 100 local artists, including technicians and artists of the scene. I dare say that there is more vocation than profession. There is a little bug of
cinema, pulp, chicha, enjoyment. The sociopolitical contextual circumstance of the year 2023-2024 does not take away the cinephile drive of a few in a small city in the province of Buenos Aires, Tandil, a cradle to house the audiovisual and acting art pronounced by the Faculty of Arts and the cultural field of theaters that support the vanguard of culture.
And about the story I maintain that there is an intention to empathize with the protagonist and it is given because sometimes it is very difficult to find a purpose in our life. Coco shows that self-love is what guarantees the full purpose of survival. Within the psychological framework, The Moon is the one who saves Coco, - rather her unconscious - creating an idea of ​​survival because if she does not obtain love from someone, in the way that she has been attracting reality, erroneously casualizing: she dies, she commits suicide. That is why, intelligently, his natural instinct saves him and the comedy is provoked by the irrationality of the selenophilic situation. No one would allow within a family context - not even society itself - that one of its members has a relationship with the Moon.
Being witnesses as spectators of such an absurdity, allows for the creation of a degree of questioning... where will all this go? To what extent?
I like to think that the public can get hooked on their contemplative inner places, that they maintain a personal revisionism as they watch the film, and wonder to what extent and what is their quixotic act, what would one do to dismantle the structure that keeps us tied to this world in an impersonal way?
There is something in all this fictional and conflicted line that the protagonist runs through that reflects the very act of quixotic act - mobilization and interest of an entire city - that was provoked
during the genesis of the film, and subsequent development. Recognizing that there is no ceiling for the drive of life in those of us who immerse ourselves in a creative process. We are called in life to the purpose of what is inherent to the naturally collective, in this case: cinema. And that, if this game were not there among us, we would probably be staring at the moon. I invite you to enter the World of Coco, and I hope that this film will be one more tool - like a grain of sand - to continue raising awareness among those who have the opportunity to see it and thus collaborate with new forms of connection.