Biography
Mariano LLINÁS (1975, Argentina) is a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor. His sister is the well-known Argentinian actress Verónica Llinás. He was educated at the Universidad del Cine in Argentina, where he currently teaches. In 2002 he became known through his documentary Balnearios. At IFFR 2017, La Flor (Parte 1)(2016) was the winner of the Hubert Bals Fund Audience Award. That film, together with La Flor (Parte 2) and La Flor (Parte 3) combine to form Llinás's epic project. A film w...
Known For
Complete Filmography

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 ...

Popular tradición de esta tierra
2024
Director, Writer
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 Miu Miu Affaire
2024
Additional Editor
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 a...

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 inspir...

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe
2024
Director, Writer
A filmmaker fails to portray an artist couple. Between music, painting and cinema, he achieves, however, an exceptional comedy of colours. Work inspir...

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker
2024
as Mariano Llinás
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 filmmak...

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker
2024
Director, Writer
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 filmmak...

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo
2024
as Mariano Llinás
“This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn’t meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait.” (Mariano Llinás)

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo
2024
Director, Writer
“This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn’t meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait.” (Mariano Llinás)

Viejo Hotel Ostende
2023
as Self
Mariano Llinás makes, at the request of the Viejo Hotel Ostende, a portrait of the Hotel's future over its 110 years of history

Viejo Hotel Ostende
2023
Director
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
as Moreno
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a rou...

Trenque Lauquen
2023
Camera Operator, Screenplay, Editor
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 f...

Trenque Lauquen
2023
as Locutor de Radio
With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help ...

Blanquita
2023
Script Consultant
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,...

Clorindo Testa
2022
as Él mismo
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 ...

Clorindo Testa
2022
Director, Writer
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 ...

Argentina 1985
2022
Writer
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
Writer
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...

The Middle Ages
2022
Editor
A comedy during confinement? Probably so. A portrait of a little girl and her family during confinement? Apparently so. An absurd, Beckettian musical ...

Las Rojas
2021
Writer
In a remote camp in the Carlota mountains, a renowned paleontologist, guards the most important finding of her scientific career: the fossil remains o...

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel
2021
as Himself
On 9 July – Argentina’s Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record ‘Corsini inter...

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel
2021
Director, Writer
On 9 July – Argentina’s Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record ‘Corsini inter...

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 worryi...

Azor
2021
Writer
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 worryi...

Ensayo para Güemes
2021
Writer

No va más
2021
Executive Producer
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 wit...

Concert for the Battle of El Tala
2021
as Himself
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 vici...

Concert for the Battle of El Tala
2021
Director, Writer
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 vici...

La noche submarina
2020
Writer
In 2000 Alejo Moguillansky, Diego H. Flores and Fermín Villanueva filmed for three days aboard the ARA San Juan submarine. Twenty years later, Alejo M...

Quino
2020
Director
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 En...

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 creat...

Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro
2020
Director
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 creat...

Lejano Interior
2020
as Himself
A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.

Lejano Interior
2020
Director, Screenplay
A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
2019
Director
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
Editor
A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

I shot Antoine Doinel
2019
as Voice-over
A film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary cinema to the character of Antoine Doinel. When h...

La Flor
2019
as Himself / Narrator
An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different ...

La Flor
2019
Director, Screenplay
An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different ...

The Summit
2017
Writer
At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Her...

The Sky of the Centaur
2017
as Hombre del mapa
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 m...

The Sky of the Centaur
2017
Writer, Production Director
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 m...

Santiago's Theorem
2016
as Himself
In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled ...

Paulina
2015
Writer
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 judg...

Dog Lady
2015
Producer
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 s...

The Gold Bug
2014
Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship betwe...

The Gold Bug
2014
Writer, Editor
Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship betwe...

The Parrot and the Swan
2013
Editor
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 i...

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 "Histo...

Cowboy
2011
Thanks
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
Original Story
Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates ...

Abduction and death
2011
Writer
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....
Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo
2011
Director
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 ...

Tekton
2009
Cinematography
Three decades later, the San Juan Civic Center construction project is back on track and, as if nothing had happened, the bureaucratic machinery seems...

Tres juntos
2009
as Asesino
Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them...

Tres juntos
2009
Music
Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them...

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...

Castro
2009
Editor
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...

Extraordinary Stories
2008
as X
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 ma...

Extraordinary Stories
2008
Director, Screenplay
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 ma...

Borges/Santiago: variaciones sobre un guion
2008
Producer
Hugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969).

On Probation
2005
Thanks
Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support...

Opus
2005
Producer, Writer
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 b...

The Most Beautiful Girl
2004
Director
The election of the National Queen in General Roca (Argentina)

Balnearios
2002
as Model
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...

Balnearios
2002
Director, Writer
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...
Derecho viejo
1998
Director, Writer, Editor
The story of some neighborhood boys, narrated with an undoubted Borgian spirit. (ucine.edu.ar)
The Diplomats
N/A
Writer
We are in the late 1980s. As the Eastern Bloc disintegrates, two diplomats united by an old grudge find themselves by chance stationed in Geneva. For ...

The letters that weren’t also are
N/A
Director
Idea by Garbiñe Ortega, celebrating four years of work, cinema and love.
Impunity
N/A
Writer
Follows an ex-spy hired to prevent the escape of the Chilean dictator after his capture in London unleashes geopolitical unrest.