Mariano Llinás

27 Nights (2025)

When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life. ...

Popular tradición de esta tierra (2024)

The second installment of the adventures of the Corsini Commando takes us this time to the Pampas plain, where Corsini grew up and forged a vision of the world that would accompany him throughout his life. The result of this excursion is an erratic wanderi ...

The Miu Miu Affaire (2024)

Nothing went as planned: what seemed to be an original idea (taking an international fashion event to a small town in the Argentine Pampas) ended up as a mysterious affair, with a mannequin who seems to have vanished, and who insists on leaving small clues ...

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe (2024)

A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours. Work inspired by the book "Kunst der Farbe" by Johannes Itten. ...

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker (2024)

Situation 1: Mondongo, a duo of Argentinian artists, create a work inspired by The Art of colors, a treatise by Johannes Itten. Situation 2: A filmmaker begins a portrait of them. ...

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo (2024)

"This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn't meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait. ...

Viejo Hotel Ostende (2023)

Mariano Llinás makes, at the request of the Viejo Hotel Ostende, a portrait of the Hotel's future over its 110 years of history ...

Trenque Lauquen (2023)

For the unique 2x25 project, the festival asked 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made a short film. A short film by Laura Citarella with music by Eiko Ishibashi. ...

Blanquita (2023)

Blanca, an 18-year-old foster home resident, is the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. Yet, the more questions are asked, the less clear it becomes what Blanca's role in the scandal exactly is. ...

Clorindo Testa (2022)

Is this film about Clorindo Testa or not? Is it about the life of the director, about the life of his father, about the life of his country, or is it just one of those biographical films that proliferate at film festivals in which the narrator spends his t ...

Argentina 1985 (2022)

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time. ...

15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour (2022)

Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy. ...

The Middle Ages (2022)

A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical shot during confinement? Exactly, yes. ...

Las Rojas (2021)

In a remote camp in the Carlota mountains, a renowned paleontologist, guards the most important finding of her scientific career: the fossil remains of a hippogriff, a mythical animal half bird half lion of which there is no certainty of its existence. The ...

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel (2021)

On 9 July – Argentina's Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record 'Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel', an album made in 1929 by lyricist Hector Pedro Blomberg and composer Enr ...

Azor (2021)

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillan ...

Ensayo para Güemes (2021)

No va más (2021)

Isolated in his apartment, old and forgotten by almost everyone —whom, in turn, he has also forgotten— Rafael occupies the hours of his daily life with various rituals and repetitions. ...

Concert for the Battle of El Tala (2021)

This is a film with music. Or about the music and texts that accompany, in a poetic way, a decisive battle between Unitarian and Federalists. The vicissitudes of the birth of a nation based on the play written by Mariano Llinás and Gabriel Chwojnik, whose ...

La noche submarina (2020)

In 2000 Alejo Moguillansky, Diego H. Flores and Fermín Villanueva filmed for three days aboard the ARA San Juan submarine. Twenty years later, Alejo Moguillansky edited that old material in this travel chronicle called The Submarine Night, narrated by Luc ...

Quino (2020)

This study on Quino's style, carried out by Mariano Llinás and Ignacio Masllorens in 2005 as part of their documentary "El Humor (Small Illustrated Encyclopedia)" is a delicate and lucid look at the work of someone who was much more than the inventor of t ...

Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro (2020)

During the quarantine in 2020, the two friends Mariano Llinás and Matías Piñeiro sent each other video letters – 8 in total, 4 each of them – to create a compilation of ideas, thoughts and exchanges commissioned by Sergi Álvarez Riosalido for La Ca ...

Lejano Interior (2020)

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux. ...

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille (2019)

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films. ...

For the Money (2019)

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America. ...

La Flor (2019)

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes… ...

The Summit (2017)

At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons. ...

The Sky of the Centaur (2017)

A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then must pursuit him in a labyrinthic city. ...

Paulina (2015)

Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. O ...

Dog Lady (2015)

The protagonist of Dog Lady is a woman (Llinás) who lives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires with a pack of dogs, in a house like so many other humble shacks in the urban sprawl of the city. ...

The Gold Bug (2014)

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, gr ...

The Parrot and the Swan (2013)

Loro, a sound recordist, meets Luciana, a dancer, and falls in love whit her. When she quits their ballet production and leaves, Loro looks for her in San Francisco, Argentina. ...

Cowboy (2011)

The story of Julián Lamar, an Argentine actor who tries to get a part in a North American western that will be shot in Argentina. ...

The Student (2011)

Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ...

Abduction and death (2011)

Argentina, the 70's. One morning, several armed young men, dressed in military uniform, kidnap a Senior Army General and hide him in a modest cottage. There, without the hostage's awareness of either the reason for his imprisonment or the people who planne ...

Ostende (2011)

Waiting alone for her boyfriend at a hotel, a woman starts paying attention to the mysterious behavior of some guests. ...

Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo (2011)

A fugitive, a fetishist and a detective walk through a mansion built in the 19th century on the banks of the River Plate. Within its walls, there are resonances, portraits of illustrious or unknown people, books, souvenirs, furniture from different periods ...

Tekton (2009)

Three decades later, the San Juan Civic Center construction project is back on track and, as if nothing had happened, the bureaucratic machinery seems to be united with the cranes and the human force and the megalomaniac desire that such an undertaking sup ...

Tres juntos (2009)

Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them that they did not feel before. Maybe it will be the last summer of their childhood, maybe it will be the ...

Castro (2009)

Four characters are looking for a man called Castro, but we don't know why. For some mysterious reason, Castro is running. He has left his life behind, and survives by hiding in a room in a small city. He is basically alone, but someone has appeared in his ...

Extraordinary Stories (2008)

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore. ...

On Probation (2005)

Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in ...

Opus (2005)

In July 2002, an American Producer comissions director Mariano Donoso a documentary on the state of Education in San Juan, the province where he was born. On the first day of filming, a teachers' strike begins, paralyzing classes in the whole province, and ...

The Most Beautiful Girl (2004)

The election of the National Queen in General Roca (Argentina) ...

Balnearios (2002)

An album of odd and humorous stories on small places exclusively dedicated to idleness, which are empty in winter and crowded in summer: the spa towns. Cities under water, luxury hotels, mermaids, sea animals, sand castles, people who worship water, prayin ...

Derecho viejo (1998)

The story of some neighborhood boys, narrated with an undoubted Borgian spirit. (ucine.edu. ...

Popular tradición de esta tierra (2024)

The second installment of the adventures of the Corsini Commando takes us this time to the Pampas plain, where Corsini grew up and forged a vision of the world that would accompany him throughout his life. The result of this excursion is an erratic wanderi ...

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe (2024)

A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours. Work inspired by the book "Kunst der Farbe" by Johannes Itten. ...

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker (2024)

Situation 1: Mondongo, a duo of Argentinian artists, create a work inspired by The Art of colors, a treatise by Johannes Itten. Situation 2: A filmmaker begins a portrait of them. ...

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo (2024)

"This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn't meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait. ...

Viejo Hotel Ostende (2023)

Mariano Llinás makes, at the request of the Viejo Hotel Ostende, a portrait of the Hotel's future over its 110 years of history ...

The Settlers (2023)

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. ...

Clorindo Testa (2022)

Is this film about Clorindo Testa or not? Is it about the life of the director, about the life of his father, about the life of his country, or is it just one of those biographical films that proliferate at film festivals in which the narrator spends his t ...

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel (2021)

On 9 July – Argentina's Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record 'Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel', an album made in 1929 by lyricist Hector Pedro Blomberg and composer Enr ...

Azor (2021)

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillan ...

Concert for the Battle of El Tala (2021)

This is a film with music. Or about the music and texts that accompany, in a poetic way, a decisive battle between Unitarian and Federalists. The vicissitudes of the birth of a nation based on the play written by Mariano Llinás and Gabriel Chwojnik, whose ...

Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro (2020)

During the quarantine in 2020, the two friends Mariano Llinás and Matías Piñeiro sent each other video letters – 8 in total, 4 each of them – to create a compilation of ideas, thoughts and exchanges commissioned by Sergi Álvarez Riosalido for La Ca ...

Lejano Interior (2020)

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux. ...

I shot Antoine Doinel (2019)

A film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary cinema to the character of Antoine Doinel. When he learns that the actor who played him is coming to visit his city, he makes a drastic decision. ...

La Flor (2019)

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes… ...

The Sky of the Centaur (2017)

A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then must pursuit him in a labyrinthic city. ...

Santiago's Theorem (2016)

In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel du ce ...

The Gold Bug (2014)

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, gr ...

Flesh and Blood (2012)

An actor's journey playing an assassin on the set of a film that takes place in a Buenos Aires' butcher shop. Short novella from the anthology "Historias breves 7". The Almanac is part of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) Short Film Project Comp ...

Tres juntos (2009)

Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them that they did not feel before. Maybe it will be the last summer of their childhood, maybe it will be the ...

Castro (2009)

Four characters are looking for a man called Castro, but we don't know why. For some mysterious reason, Castro is running. He has left his life behind, and survives by hiding in a room in a small city. He is basically alone, but someone has appeared in his ...

Extraordinary Stories (2008)

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore. ...

Balnearios (2002)

An album of odd and humorous stories on small places exclusively dedicated to idleness, which are empty in winter and crowded in summer: the spa towns. Cities under water, luxury hotels, mermaids, sea animals, sand castles, people who worship water, prayin ...