Experiencing Interruptions?

Nobody is Crazy

Rafa is a lonely teenager with OCD and his overwhelmed mother insists on giving him professional help or he will end up in a military school. Faced with the situation, he agrees to visit a self-help group where he meets a somewhat eccentric masked guy who states to be a time traveler. Rafa begins the search to find out if the young guy is who he says he is and came from the past or is simply a mental patient who escaped from an asylum.

  • Federico J. Arioni
    Director
    Por un puñado de pesos
  • Federico J. Arioni
    Writer
    Por un puñado de pesos
  • Germán S. Guevara La Malfa
    Producer
  • Federico J. Arioni
    Producer
    Por un puñado de pesos
  • José Manuel Gutierrez
    Key Cast
    "Rafa"
    Por un puñado de pesos
  • Federico J. Arioni
    Key Cast
    "Nadie"
    Por un puñado de pesos
  • Lara Ammi Wheeler
    Key Cast
    "Daria"
  • Jonatan Robledo
    Cinematographer
  • Federico J. Arioni
    Editor
    Por un puñado de pesos
  • Maximiliano Gigena
    Sound Department
  • Gabriel Vidal
    Sound Department
  • Abigaíl Jara
    First Assistant Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Nadie está loco
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Drama, Fantasy
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 45 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 4, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ENE International Film Festival
    Newburgh
    United States
    October 11, 2019
    International Premiere
    Best Feature
  • Montgomery International Film Festival
    Bethesda, Maryland
    United States
    December 20, 2020
    Best Picture
  • Montgomery International Film Festival
    Bethesda, Maryland
    United States
    December 20, 2020
    Best Director
  • FICMAFEST
    México D. F.
    Mexico
    December 1, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Diorama International Film Festival
    New Delhi
    India
    December 18, 2020
    Asian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Ciclo de Cine Nequino
    Neuquén
    Argentina
    August 19, 2019
    Premiere
  • Cine Patagónico
    Plottier
    Argentina
    January 22, 2020
  • Latino & Native American Film Festival
    New Haven
    United States
    May 4, 2021
    Best Science Fiction Film
Distribution Information
  • BayView Entertainment
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
Director Biography - Federico J. Arioni

Federico J. Arioni began making short films at a very young age, driven by a passion for storytelling. Self-taught, he honed his craft and expanded his knowledge until he created his first feature film, A Fistful of Pesos (2015), a crime film influenced by the works of Sergio Leone. In 2019, he completed his second feature, Nobody is Crazy, a drama with fantastical and psychological elements about a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and his connection to time travel. In both films, Arioni served as writer, director, and producer.

Nobody is Crazy began its international distribution in 2022, receiving praise from critics worldwide. The film won three Best Film awards and one Best Director award at various festivals in the United States. It was also declared of interest by the Legislative Power of the Province of Neuquén.

His works have been showcased at film festivals in Argentina, the United States, Mexico, India, Spain, and Croatia.

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Director Statement

"We are all crazy, to a greater or lesser extent," says Rafael, the protagonist of the film. I like stories in which the psychological baggage is important both for the construction of the character and for the plot of what is being told. By saying that we are all crazy, we want to imply that we all have our strange attitudes, our obsessions, our follies; and the important thing is that we can be functional with them. With this story I wanted to get into that, to see where is the limit between what is considered normal and what it is to be a little crazy, and as some feel social pressure to act like everyone, and like some others who don’t care that people look at them like weirdos do what they really want to do, whether it's being alone and reading a book in a park or walking around with a mask just like that.
I'm interested in time travel stories, but usually in the movies, to make it more cinematic they make the events of the present can change according to the decisions made in the past. Only a few films, such as 12 Monkeys, are based on the time-travel version in which everything that happens in the past is predestined to happen and things can not be changed. It is a challenge to put together a story with this kind of time travel.
If everything is predestined, then do our decisions matter? What is it that makes us us? What is that essence that does not change even if we change? I like the philosophical reasoning that can be found in a subtext of the plot. I hope they serve so that the viewer also asks some questions and enjoys the film in all its aspects.