In 1985, a team of lawyers led by public prosecutor Julio Strassera fights against the odds and races against time to bring the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship to justice. With a democratic government newly established, this trial is a battle to expose the crimes committed by the military junta. The lawyers face death threats, assemble a team with limited resources, and gather evidence to prove that the commanders were involved in systematic torture and kidnappings. Through their efforts, they seek to show that the atrocities were coordinated from the top. The trial proceeds despite bomb threats and witnesses being intimidated. Testimonies from victims of the junta shed light on the horrors they endured, including one woman who gave birth while under military custody. Julio and his team strive to protect the witnesses and present an eloquent closing argument that resonates with the judges and the world. Ultimately, the court sentences some of the commanders to imprisonment, marking the first time a military dictatorship is tried in a civilian court.
In all the stories that Llinas presents to us here with his narrative flair, well-known from Extraordinary Stories, we see the same four actresses, but each time in different roles: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes – we also see them grow and get older.
In the midst of rumors and corruption, a Swiss banker investigates the disappearance of an influential businessman in Buenos Aires, uncovering a web of deceit and political intrigue.
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 Casa Encendida (Madrid). Llinás is in Argentina and Piñeiro is in New York, and they begin to order each other portraits of places, reflections on artists, ideas on cinema.
When a journalist and a politician become trapped in a remote Andean hotel during a political summit, they discover a web of corruption and blackmail that threatens their lives and the future of their countries.
A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.
“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)
Extraordinary Stories (2008) is a movie that takes place in the beautiful and mysterious Argentinean countryside. It tells the story of a secret involving a series of extraordinary events that unfold episodically.
La Flor is an unconventional film consisting of six interconnected stories, each with its own genre and style. Through these stories, the film explores various themes and ideas, creating a rich and complex narrative experience.
"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.
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 images achieve some hypnotic strength.
Paulina, a young teacher, is brutally raped by a group of teenagers at her school. Despite the trauma, she decides to continue teaching and confront the society that blames her for the incident. The plot explores themes of power, gender dynamics, and the consequences of violence.
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 wandering through the landscapes of the Homeland, its paradoxes and its ghosts: A land dreamed of by a newly arrived foreigner who imagined for himself a gaucho destiny that would never become completely real. Now then: is that not, in the end, the destiny of all things?
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 – indirectly – the film itself. Donoso consequently embarks on an odyssey (which is sometimes funny and sometimes sad), through the past and present of his homeland. Stikes, claims, Sarmiento, the earthquake, the province’s bureocracy and its relationship with Buenos Aires, and finally, the desert, await for Donoso in his venturesome journey.
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.
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, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.
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, praying for health.
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 arrival of Constanza, a biologist sent to supervise the works of Carlota, and Freddy, an old rival with dark intentions, force Carlota to face a powerful enemy that threatens to destroy the territory and its natural resources.
Ensayo para Güemes is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the life and impact of Güemes, a significant figure in Argentine history. Through interviews, archival footage, and expert analysis, the film sheds light on Güemes' bravery, leadership, and the enduring resonance of his ideals. The documentary offers an intimate portrait of a hero who fought for independence and continues to inspire generations.
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.