Mariano Llinás

Mariano Llinás

1975-02-10 Buenos Aires, Argentina 71 Credits

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...

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Popular tradición de esta tierra

Popular tradición de esta tierra

2024

Acting

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

Popular tradición de esta tierra

2024

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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

The Miu Miu Affaire

2024

Additional Editor

7.6

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

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe

2024

6.0
Acting

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

Mondongo III: Kunst der Farbe

2024

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

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

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker

2024

as Mariano Llinás

7.0
Acting

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

Mondongo I: The Tightrope Walker

2024

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo

2024

as Mariano Llinás

8.5
Acting

“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

Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo

2024

Director, Writer

8.5
Directing Writing

“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

Viejo Hotel Ostende

2023

as Self

Acting

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

Viejo Hotel Ostende

2023

Director

Directing

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

The Settlers

2023

as Moreno

6.8
Acting

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

Trenque Lauquen

2023

Camera Operator, Screenplay, Editor

6.0
Writing

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

Trenque Lauquen

2023

as Locutor de Radio

7.1
Acting

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help ...

Blanquita

Blanquita

2023

Script Consultant

6.1

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

Clorindo Testa

2022

as Él mismo

6.5
Acting

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

Clorindo Testa

2022

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

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

Argentina 1985

2022

Writer

7.8
Writing

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

15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour

2022

Writer

5.2
Writing

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

The Middle Ages

2022

Editor

7.0

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

Las Rojas

2021

Writer

6.2
Writing

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

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel

2021

as Himself

6.2
Acting

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

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel

2021

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

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

Azor

2021

6.4
Acting

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

Azor

2021

Writer

6.4
Writing

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

Ensayo para Güemes

2021

Writer

7.0
Writing
No va más

No va más

2021

Executive Producer

3.0
Producing

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

Concert for the Battle of El Tala

2021

as Himself

6.4
Acting

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

Concert for the Battle of El Tala

2021

Director, Writer

6.4
Directing Writing

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

La noche submarina

2020

Writer

7.0
Writing

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

Quino

2020

Director

10.0
Directing

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

Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro

2020

10.0
Acting

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

Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro

2020

Director

10.0
Directing

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

Lejano Interior

2020

as Himself

10.0
Acting

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

Lejano Interior

Lejano Interior

2020

Director, Screenplay

10.0
Directing Writing

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

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille

2019

Director

Directing

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

For the Money

2019

Editor

6.0

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

I shot Antoine Doinel

2019

as Voice-over

Acting

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

La Flor

2019

as Himself / Narrator

7.4
Acting

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

La Flor

La Flor

2019

Director, Screenplay

7.4
Directing Writing

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

The Summit

The Summit

2017

Writer

5.9
Writing

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

The Sky of the Centaur

2017

as Hombre del mapa

7.0
Acting

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

The Sky of the Centaur

2017

Writer, Production Director

7.0
Writing Directing

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

Santiago's Theorem

2016

as Himself

8.0
Acting

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

Paulina

Paulina

2015

Writer

6.4
Writing

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

Dog Lady

2015

Producer

5.8
Producing

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

The Gold Bug

2014

5.8
Acting

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

The Gold Bug

The Gold Bug

2014

Writer, Editor

5.8
Writing

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

The Parrot and the Swan

2013

Editor

7.0

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

Flesh and Blood

2012

Acting

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

Cowboy

2011

Thanks

6.1

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

The Student

2011

Original Story

6.5
Writing

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

Abduction and death

2011

Writer

4.5
Writing

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

5.4
Directing

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

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

Tres juntos

2009

as Asesino

Acting

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

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

Castro

2009

5.8
Acting

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

Castro

2009

Editor

5.8

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

Extraordinary Stories

2008

as X

8.0
Acting

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

Extraordinary Stories

2008

Director, Screenplay

8.0
Directing Writing

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

Borges/Santiago: variaciones sobre un guion

2008

Producer

7.0
Producing

Hugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969).

On Probation

On Probation

2005

Thanks

7.5

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

Opus

2005

Producer, Writer

7.0
Producing Writing

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

The Most Beautiful Girl

2004

Director

5.5
Directing

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

Balnearios

Balnearios

2002

as Model

7.0
Acting

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

Balnearios

2002

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

5.0
Directing Writing

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

The Diplomats

N/A

Writer

Writing

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

The letters that weren’t also are

N/A

Director

Directing

Idea by Garbiñe Ortega, celebrating four years of work, cinema and love.

Impunity

N/A

Writer

Writing

Follows an ex-spy hired to prevent the escape of the Chilean dictator after his capture in London unleashes geopolitical unrest.