Nominated for 11 Argentine Oscars—including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for superstar Ricardo Darín—the latest from Miami Film Festival favorite Santiago Mitre offers a riveting portrait of a fictional president simultaneously embroiled in a corruption scandal and forced to play international hardball on his country’s behalf.

President Hernán Blanco (Darín) is already in trouble when he arrives at a Pan-American oil summit in the Chilean Andes: his lack of high-stakes negotiating experience threatens to undo him, while his daughter’s ex-husband threatens to expose Blanco’s shadier past.

Rather than resort to simple cynicism, The Summit, with its crisp direction and brilliant performances from Darín, Dolores Fonzi (star of Mitre’s Paulina) and Christian Slater, chooses a more complex route, one focused on the flawed humanity that can conspire against the best intentions in any political arena.