Mara Pescio

Writing

Mara Pescio

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Writing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Mil pedazos poster
NR

Miguel (55), Isabel (45), and Emilia (9) go on vacation with their dog, Eve. Suddenly, an accident in the middle of the desert leaves the mother seriously injured. Miguel, trying to save Emilia, embarks on a personal journey with his daughter to find answers about what happened. Three months later, Isabel awakens from a coma and begins a personal, loving, and intuitive quest to rebuild her family.

Mil pedazos

2026

That Weekend poster
6.0

Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.

That Weekend

2021

Barrio modelo poster
NR

Silvia visited Moscow in the late 1960s, during the Soviet regime's heyday. There, she saw the structuralist-designed complexes designed to house working-class families. Upon returning to Buenos Aires, she discovered that the same collectivist spirit was embedded in the buildings constructed by the El Hogar Obrero cooperative. Embracing the ideal of socialism, Silvia abandoned everything, including her husband and children, to move into one of these apartments and write a novel in which she planned to portray its more than 200 owners. Shortly after, she traveled to Italy, and her trail was lost forever. Half a century later, a niece found her manuscripts and decided to bring to life on film what had been left unfinished in literature, combining archival material with scenes of the current inhabitants.

Barrio modelo

2022

Queen of Coal poster
6.9

A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old superstition rooted in a folk tale that for 80 years forbid all women from entering the mine's underground galleries, fearing that their mere presence could trigger a collapse.

Queen of Coal

2025

De vuelta poster
NR

Anna and León have their last night together in full celebration of her departure to Russia. She will go with his mother and he will remain in Buenos Aires. Anna asks León to do everything possible to stop that trip; Her life is there, next to him.

De vuelta

2015

Marilyn poster
5.6

Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Marilyn by the other teenagers in town, Marcos is a target for desire and discrimination.

Marilyn

2018

Behind the camera

Mil pedazos poster
NR

Miguel (55), Isabel (45), and Emilia (9) go on vacation with their dog, Eve. Suddenly, an accident in the middle of the desert leaves the mother seriously injured. Miguel, trying to save Emilia, embarks on a personal journey with his daughter to find answers about what happened. Three months later, Isabel awakens from a coma and begins a personal, loving, and intuitive quest to rebuild her family.

Mil pedazos

2026

That Weekend poster
6.0

Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.

That Weekend

2021

That Weekend poster
6.0

Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.

That Weekend

2021

Barrio modelo poster
NR

Silvia visited Moscow in the late 1960s, during the Soviet regime's heyday. There, she saw the structuralist-designed complexes designed to house working-class families. Upon returning to Buenos Aires, she discovered that the same collectivist spirit was embedded in the buildings constructed by the El Hogar Obrero cooperative. Embracing the ideal of socialism, Silvia abandoned everything, including her husband and children, to move into one of these apartments and write a novel in which she planned to portray its more than 200 owners. Shortly after, she traveled to Italy, and her trail was lost forever. Half a century later, a niece found her manuscripts and decided to bring to life on film what had been left unfinished in literature, combining archival material with scenes of the current inhabitants.

Barrio modelo

2022

Barrio modelo poster
NR

Silvia visited Moscow in the late 1960s, during the Soviet regime's heyday. There, she saw the structuralist-designed complexes designed to house working-class families. Upon returning to Buenos Aires, she discovered that the same collectivist spirit was embedded in the buildings constructed by the El Hogar Obrero cooperative. Embracing the ideal of socialism, Silvia abandoned everything, including her husband and children, to move into one of these apartments and write a novel in which she planned to portray its more than 200 owners. Shortly after, she traveled to Italy, and her trail was lost forever. Half a century later, a niece found her manuscripts and decided to bring to life on film what had been left unfinished in literature, combining archival material with scenes of the current inhabitants.

Barrio modelo

2022

Queen of Coal poster
6.9

A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old superstition rooted in a folk tale that for 80 years forbid all women from entering the mine's underground galleries, fearing that their mere presence could trigger a collapse.

Queen of Coal

2025

De vuelta poster
NR

Anna and León have their last night together in full celebration of her departure to Russia. She will go with his mother and he will remain in Buenos Aires. Anna asks León to do everything possible to stop that trip; Her life is there, next to him.

De vuelta

2015

De vuelta poster
NR

Anna and León have their last night together in full celebration of her departure to Russia. She will go with his mother and he will remain in Buenos Aires. Anna asks León to do everything possible to stop that trip; Her life is there, next to him.

De vuelta

2015

De vuelta poster
NR

Anna and León have their last night together in full celebration of her departure to Russia. She will go with his mother and he will remain in Buenos Aires. Anna asks León to do everything possible to stop that trip; Her life is there, next to him.

De vuelta

2015

Marilyn poster
5.6

Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Marilyn by the other teenagers in town, Marcos is a target for desire and discrimination.

Marilyn

2018

Offering poster
NR

The year 2023 marks the 35th anniversary of the association La Mujer y el Cine, and 43 female directors have come together to deliver a fragment of their gaze, a frame, an aesthetic and ethical decision, a tribute to women who anticipated the struggle. A leap into the void made by women filmmakers of different ages and backgrounds. United, in a sort of electronic loom, as an offering and a legacy in which a moment in the history of Argentine cinema is told, where we were all one, with our eyes on the past, our gaze on the present and the horizon full of the future.

Offering

2023

Historias breves 11 poster
NR

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Historias breves 11

2015