Directing

Mercedes Arias

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Guard Mount poster
7.0

Forty-seven years after they met while serving in the military during the coup, a group of friends continue to celebrate an uninterrupted friendship that reflects the ups and downs of a confused society in which yesterday’s experiences are mixed with political convictions.

Guard Mount

2024

On the Know poster
1.0

Old friends, family, reunions, business, scams, films... These characters carry out the art of arguing with the unobjectionable feeling of being right. 60 minutes and 5 chapters in which the protagonists give their all in order to win their small epic battles.

On the Know

2023

El niño oscuro poster
NR

Nicolás Barsoff, a young Argentine actor of Austrian and Russian descent, rescues a box of film reels just as his father was about to throw it away. He hopes the box will be the key to unlocking a tendency toward darkness that haunts him as part of an inevitable inheritance he tries to combat with natural medicines. Through the archive, we delve into the story of a family torn apart by World Wars I and II, immigration to Argentina, and the military dictatorship of 1976. His two grandparents are presented as antagonistic characters in the context of the disappearance: two ghostly figures in a genealogy that Nicolás will try to reconstruct.

El niño oscuro

2024

The Children of God poster
5.9

Francisco and Sol were raised outside the system, in a religious community called La Familia Internacional. In an attempt to free their voice and reconfigure the puzzle of subjectivity, the recovery of the past through memories allows to bring up events that had been previously denied.

The Children of God

2021

The Carnival poster
3.5

Berger approaches Carnival with painterly precision and vitality, yet the focus is not on the parade itself but on the preparations - the anticipation, the hours leading up to the event where bodies let loose and transform. The film turns the eve into a source of mystery and visual delight.

The Carnival

2021

The Whatsapp Troupe poster
NR

Tonight is the monthly meeting of the 75s graduates class. The conversation flows until it suddenly acquires an aggressive tone when they discuss the continuity of some members of the Whatsapp group who don't participate much.

The Whatsapp Troupe

2019

Behind the camera

Guard Mount poster
7.0

Forty-seven years after they met while serving in the military during the coup, a group of friends continue to celebrate an uninterrupted friendship that reflects the ups and downs of a confused society in which yesterday’s experiences are mixed with political convictions.

Guard Mount

2024

On the Know poster
1.0

Old friends, family, reunions, business, scams, films... These characters carry out the art of arguing with the unobjectionable feeling of being right. 60 minutes and 5 chapters in which the protagonists give their all in order to win their small epic battles.

On the Know

2023

El niño oscuro poster
NR

Nicolás Barsoff, a young Argentine actor of Austrian and Russian descent, rescues a box of film reels just as his father was about to throw it away. He hopes the box will be the key to unlocking a tendency toward darkness that haunts him as part of an inevitable inheritance he tries to combat with natural medicines. Through the archive, we delve into the story of a family torn apart by World Wars I and II, immigration to Argentina, and the military dictatorship of 1976. His two grandparents are presented as antagonistic characters in the context of the disappearance: two ghostly figures in a genealogy that Nicolás will try to reconstruct.

El niño oscuro

2024

El niño oscuro poster
NR

Nicolás Barsoff, a young Argentine actor of Austrian and Russian descent, rescues a box of film reels just as his father was about to throw it away. He hopes the box will be the key to unlocking a tendency toward darkness that haunts him as part of an inevitable inheritance he tries to combat with natural medicines. Through the archive, we delve into the story of a family torn apart by World Wars I and II, immigration to Argentina, and the military dictatorship of 1976. His two grandparents are presented as antagonistic characters in the context of the disappearance: two ghostly figures in a genealogy that Nicolás will try to reconstruct.

El niño oscuro

2024

El niño oscuro poster
NR

Nicolás Barsoff, a young Argentine actor of Austrian and Russian descent, rescues a box of film reels just as his father was about to throw it away. He hopes the box will be the key to unlocking a tendency toward darkness that haunts him as part of an inevitable inheritance he tries to combat with natural medicines. Through the archive, we delve into the story of a family torn apart by World Wars I and II, immigration to Argentina, and the military dictatorship of 1976. His two grandparents are presented as antagonistic characters in the context of the disappearance: two ghostly figures in a genealogy that Nicolás will try to reconstruct.

El niño oscuro

2024

The Children of God poster
5.9

Francisco and Sol were raised outside the system, in a religious community called La Familia Internacional. In an attempt to free their voice and reconfigure the puzzle of subjectivity, the recovery of the past through memories allows to bring up events that had been previously denied.

The Children of God

2021

The Carnival poster
3.5

Berger approaches Carnival with painterly precision and vitality, yet the focus is not on the parade itself but on the preparations - the anticipation, the hours leading up to the event where bodies let loose and transform. The film turns the eve into a source of mystery and visual delight.

The Carnival

2021

The Whatsapp Troupe poster
NR

Tonight is the monthly meeting of the 75s graduates class. The conversation flows until it suddenly acquires an aggressive tone when they discuss the continuity of some members of the Whatsapp group who don't participate much.

The Whatsapp Troupe

2019

Box 25 poster
5.7

Documentary about the relation between Panama and the United States, during the building of the Panama Canal.

Box 25

2015

Tito, Margot and Me poster
NR

In front of the waves of the Panamanian Pacific in the town of El Higo, a woman walks and tells the story lived by the Panamanian Tito Arias and Margot Fonteyn, the most acclaimed dancer in the world and incomparable ballet figure.

Tito, Margot and Me

2022

Historias breves 17 poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Historias breves 17

2019

Luisita Photo Studio poster
6.7

The celebrities who visited Luisita Escarria's photo studio in Buenos Aires for decades are countless. Sol, a young photographer, discovers there more than 25,000 unpublished negatives, an archive of incalculable value that opens a window through which to look at the true artistic epicenter of Argentinean popular culture…

Luisita Photo Studio

2019

El espesor de lo visible poster
NR

Ana and Francisco go through the experience of their first pregnancy, when they find out that something will not be as they expected...

El espesor de lo visible

2019

Out: La salida está en tu mente poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Out: La salida está en tu mente

2013

No artwork available
NR

“La Señal de la Libertad” narrates a little-known episode of Panamanian history in the late 1980s. It tells the story of Kurt Muse, a U.S. citizen who, along with a group of six Panamanians, formed a clandestine radio broadcasting network during Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship. Their mission was to intercept and sabotage the communications of Panama’s National Guard to spark an uprising against the regime. 35 years after these events, they decide to step out of anonymity and share their story. The documentary explores the risks and sacrifices of those involved, highlighting the fine line between heroism and danger. More than just a historical chronicle, it delves into the psychology of its protagonists, the silent decisions that shaped their destiny, and the personal and collective impact of living in the shadows.

La Señal de la Libertad

2025

When the Olympus Collides With the Pampas poster
NR

A septuagenarian artist must face the passing of time in his works, his body and to confront his own fears. Naked Colossi, strong arms and big muscles struggle against oblivion. They fade into the blue and vanish like birds in the sky. A portrait of Ricardo Cinalli, shot between London and the Argentinian Pampas. An artist of the Renaissance amidst the 21st century.

When the Olympus Collides With the Pampas

2021