Interview: Benjamín Naishtat & Esteban Bigliardi – Glaxo

World premiering at the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival, with Glaxo, Argentine’s Benjamín Naishtat returns to the moral rot beneath respectable provincial life, a territory he explored with chilling precision in Rojo, while bringing a different energy to Hernán Ronsino’s fractured tale of friendship, betrayal and violence in the Argentine pampas. Following the biting academic comedy of Puan, the film finds Naishtat balancing dark humor, youthful sexuality and historical dread, as shifting timelines and aspect ratios reveal a community haunted by the crimes it would rather forget. In conversation with actor Esteban Bigliardi, Naishtat discusses adapting Ronsino’s novel, the film’s visual architecture, and the uneasy relationship between personal guilt and Argentina’s violent past. Here is my sit down with the pair: