Directing

Lucila Mariani

Lucila Mariani is a filmmaker from and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her first short film, Wekwaindu (2018), was selected for the BFI Future Film Festival. Her second short film, Resonancias (Echoes, 2019), premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and was subsequently selected for New Directors/New Films (presented by MoMA and Film at Lincoln Center) and BAFICI. Her thir…

Known For

Echoes

In this ruminative snapshot, a swimmer with a clogged ear finds herself drawn back to the sea.

Domingo 33°

Magopelusa_1028

Magopelusa_1028 · 2024

Magopelusa_1028

The Days Off

The Days Off · 2026

MovieScience FictionDrama

In the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls of her age. As the moon seems to eclipse the animals and people around her, she meets REN__, an online friend, who introduces her to “shifting” – a practice where teens believe they can enter other realities through lucid dreaming.

A Common Crime

A Common Crime · 2021

MovieThrillerDrama

Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.

Quisiera no sentir todo este ruido

Quisiera no sentir todo este ruido · 2025

Quisiera no sentir todo este ruido

A fiction that imagines anxiety as literal explosions of light, surging out of one's body. Tonight's anxiety, this girl's, is linked to her interrupted pregnancy.

Wekwaindu

Wekwaindu · 2018

An 11 year-old goes through her first period as she tries to find new ways to understand herself and her body.

Moon that cracks over the darkness of my loneliness

Moon that cracks over the darkness of my loneliness · 2022

Moon that cracks over the darkness of my loneliness

A woman’s daily life is suddenly disturbed when a vampire hacks into her computer. After a few nights, he finally visits her and takes her for a stroll through the dark night of Buenos Aires.

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Echoes

In this ruminative snapshot, a swimmer with a clogged ear finds herself drawn back to the sea.

Producer

Domingo 33°

Magopelusa_1028

Magopelusa_1028 · 2024

Magopelusa_1028

Screenplay

The Days Off

The Days Off · 2026

MovieScience FictionDrama

In the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls of her age. As the moon seems to eclipse the animals and people around her, she meets REN__, an online friend, who introduces her to “shifting” – a practice where teens believe they can enter other realities through lucid dreaming.

Director

A Common Crime

A Common Crime · 2021

MovieThrillerDrama

Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.

Production Trainee

Quisiera no sentir todo este ruido

Quisiera no sentir todo este ruido · 2025

Quisiera no sentir todo este ruido

A fiction that imagines anxiety as literal explosions of light, surging out of one's body. Tonight's anxiety, this girl's, is linked to her interrupted pregnancy.

Director

Wekwaindu

Wekwaindu · 2018

An 11 year-old goes through her first period as she tries to find new ways to understand herself and her body.

Director

Moon that cracks over the darkness of my loneliness

Moon that cracks over the darkness of my loneliness · 2022

Moon that cracks over the darkness of my loneliness

A woman’s daily life is suddenly disturbed when a vampire hacks into her computer. After a few nights, he finally visits her and takes her for a stroll through the dark night of Buenos Aires.

Director