Mariano Cohn

Directing

Mariano Cohn

Born

1975-12-01 (50)

Place of birth

Villa Ballester, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

Mariano Cohn (born December 1, 1975; Villa Ballester) is an Argentinian film director and producer who works together with Gastón Duprat. They began their career in TV in 1999, when they created and produced Televisión Abierta, an innovative and interactive TV show where the viewers created the content by requesting a cameraman to visit them to record a short clip (less than a minute). They both won the Konex Award Merit Diploma in 2002. Gastón and Mariano met during a regional experimental video festival in Buenos Aires back in 1993, where Gastón was a member of the jury and Mariano was in competition with his video Un día más en la tierra. They began exchanging ideas after the event and s…

Known for

Official Competition poster
6.6

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?

Official Competition

2021

4x4 poster
6.2

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A luxurious van is parked on the sidewalk. A man enters with the purpose of stealing whatever he can find, but when he wants to leave, he cannot. The doors do not open, the control panel does not respond: the van has become an armored box and he is trapped like a mouse.

4x4

2019

Homo Argentum poster
6.1

The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.

Homo Argentum

2025

My Masterpiece poster
7.3

Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.

My Masterpiece

2018

The Distinguished Citizen poster
7.3

After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worst idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!

The Distinguished Citizen

2016

A Jaula poster
6.9

It's just another luxury car being stolen on a street in São Paulo... or not. A thief easily gets into the SUV parked on a quiet street, but when he tries to get out, he discovers he is trapped, without water or food.

A Jaula

2022

Film credits

Behind the camera

Official Competition poster
6.6

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?

Official Competition

2021

4x4 poster
6.2

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A luxurious van is parked on the sidewalk. A man enters with the purpose of stealing whatever he can find, but when he wants to leave, he cannot. The doors do not open, the control panel does not respond: the van has become an armored box and he is trapped like a mouse.

4x4

2019

4x4 poster
6.2

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A luxurious van is parked on the sidewalk. A man enters with the purpose of stealing whatever he can find, but when he wants to leave, he cannot. The doors do not open, the control panel does not respond: the van has become an armored box and he is trapped like a mouse.

4x4

2019

Homo Argentum poster
6.1

The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.

Homo Argentum

2025

Homo Argentum poster
6.1

The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.

Homo Argentum

2025

My Masterpiece poster
7.3

Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.

My Masterpiece

2018

The Distinguished Citizen poster
7.3

After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worst idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!

The Distinguished Citizen

2016

A Jaula poster
6.9

It's just another luxury car being stolen on a street in São Paulo... or not. A thief easily gets into the SUV parked on a quiet street, but when he tries to get out, he discovers he is trapped, without water or food.

A Jaula

2022

The Man Next Door poster
6.7

When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument.

The Man Next Door

2009

The Artist poster
5.4

A male nurse steals some of one of his patient's drawings and makes money with them.

The Artist

2009

Darling, I Am Going Out for Cigarettes and I Will Be Right Back poster
7.0

Ernesto, an ordinary man who, after making a deal with a strange character, has the chance to return to the past and live his youth again, tries to recover lost opportunities and avoid certain behaviors to change his gray and insipid present.

Darling, I Am Going Out for Cigarettes and I Will Be Right Back

2011

Darling, I Am Going Out for Cigarettes and I Will Be Right Back poster
7.0

Ernesto, an ordinary man who, after making a deal with a strange character, has the chance to return to the past and live his youth again, tries to recover lost opportunities and avoid certain behaviors to change his gray and insipid present.

Darling, I Am Going Out for Cigarettes and I Will Be Right Back

2011

I Am President poster
8.5

Documentary based on original and personal interviews with Argentine presidents since the return of democracy in 1983 where they speak direct to camera and in the foreground, their mandate, their privacy and country.

I Am President

2006

I Am President poster
8.5

Documentary based on original and personal interviews with Argentine presidents since the return of democracy in 1983 where they speak direct to camera and in the foreground, their mandate, their privacy and country.

I Am President

2006

All About Asado poster
6.4

All About Asado is a trip into the culinary heart of Argentina. Asado, the tradition of grilled meat, is a food and also a ritual. It is primitive and modern, wild and sophisticated, an art and a science. Few phenomena reveal the essential characteristics of Argentina’s national identity with more originality and precision. Equal parts road-movie, documentary and fiction, Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s playful film delves into the almost sacred tradition of asado, using a sharp and irreverent gaze to explore the country’s meaty fixation.

All About Asado

2016

All About Asado poster
6.4

All About Asado is a trip into the culinary heart of Argentina. Asado, the tradition of grilled meat, is a food and also a ritual. It is primitive and modern, wild and sophisticated, an art and a science. Few phenomena reveal the essential characteristics of Argentina’s national identity with more originality and precision. Equal parts road-movie, documentary and fiction, Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s playful film delves into the almost sacred tradition of asado, using a sharp and irreverent gaze to explore the country’s meaty fixation.

All About Asado

2016

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

TV service

2006

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baby Pong

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Circuit

1996

Living Stars poster
6.0

In this documentary, Argentinians dance to their favourite hits.

Living Stars

2014

Encyclopedia poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Encyclopedia

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kill Bear

2014

Venimos llenos de tierra poster
NR

A family tells what they had to do to get to the fifth floor of their home

Venimos llenos de tierra

1996

No artwork available
NR

Video art that abstractly uses a tourist's home recording made in the north of Argentina. The images of the landscapes and people accompany the narration of an amateur cameraman who describes what he sees and reflects on the recording itself. Winner of the Salón del Mar.

We Come Full of Dust

1996

Hour - Day - Month poster
5.0

The story of Bernardo "Nardo" Talavera, a manager of a parking lot that during the day is involved in a tedious routine and at night lets out his most grandiloquent obsessions.

Hour - Day - Month

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

40 Years in 4 Minutes

2014

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It is divided into ten episodes, each one with a central theme, in which young writers discuss various fragments from interviews, conferences, symposiums, and lectures by Borges. Pedro Mairal, Mauro Libertella, Romina Paula, Tálata Rodriguez, Juan Martin Sklar, Wison, among others, comment on topics related to Borges such as writing, the library, Buenos Aires, the world, the Nobel Prize, and blindness. It won the Premio Fund TV de Oro.

Borges Está Vivo

2016

No artwork available
NR

Video art piece that through irony and sarcasm shows the steps for making video art, as if it were a simple recipe, and making fun of the genre's cliches: poetry scrolls, filming TVs, voices in French, video mashups, reverse audio, the out of focus image, the marginalized on screen, references to the classics, video loops.

Do It Yourself

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

20/12

2001