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Nidal
🇨🇱 Chile The 2020sThe coastal zone of the central Chilean coast is undergoing a metamorphosis where urbanization is replacing the natural, subjecting the city of Concón to a process of irreversible changes. The identity of the place is fading before the eyes of the inhabitants of the dune. "Arena" portrays human behavior and the saturation of the spaces it inhabits in an unbalanced coexistence with the other species.
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The child of Plomo
🇨🇱 ChileA trip to the center of the Andes — Santiago de Chile, a city that turns its back to the Andes Mountains. Moving away from a Ski resort, Mateo takes his nanny on an enigmatic journey to Cerro El Plomo, an ancient Inca sacred summit. She wants to return but the mountain demands the child back.
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To the Sea
🇨🇱 ChileThe story of Ana and Diego, a couple who decide to go live on the coast in Chile. There, they meet Vicente, with whom Diego secretly begins a relationship. Ana, for her part, must decide if she wants to open up to a relationship that deconstructs the traditional ways of relating affectively.
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Honoris Causa
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sHonoris Causa is an essay documentary that records Jacques Rancière's visit to the University of Valparaíso in 2017. The city is transformed into an open place that welcomes the philosopher and the images interweave to give shape and tension to a political narrative that speaks to us of the university, knowledge, philosophy, art and friendship.
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Cosas de hombres
🇨🇱 ChileSantiago comes out of the closet to his 2 long life friends at the age of 50. The reaction is not very positive from one of them, Raul. Who tries by all means, to convince Santiago that he is only going through a moment of sexual confusion, and there's no way he is gay.
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Las cruces
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sIn September 1973, 19 paper mill workers were imprisoned and taken to the Laja police station. Six years later, their bodies were found in Yumbel’s cemetery. After almost 40 years, one of the policemen involved broke the pact of silence they had made the night of the killing, revealing the participation of the Paper Manufacturing Company (CMPC) in the murder. Today, the case is still open and awaiting sentence.
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The Imaginary State
🇨🇱 ChileA Chilean man travels to Sweden searching for the answer to a crime that involves his family.
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Entierro
🇨🇱 ChileThis documentary was born with the idea of portray accurately and factually the story of the famous Chilean artist Carmengloria Morales through her art and her relationship with music.
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White on White
🇨🇱 Chile The 1890sIn the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face the land, crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of the land indigenous.
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Overnight
🇨🇱 ChileIgnacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously.
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My Tender Matador
🇨🇱 Chile The 1980sAmong gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Condor Operation
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sOperation Condor recounts the multinational scheme for the elimination of leaders of the South American left devised and executed by the dictatorships of the Southern Cone of America with the support and ideological inspiration of the CIA, which reached its climax in the 1970s. The Latin American military that They seized power and imposed on their peoples a regime of terror based on the disappearance of people, torture, murder and psychological warfare.
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Nahuel and the Magic Book
🇨🇱 ChileNahuel lives with his father in a fishing town, yet he has a deep fear of the sea. One day, he finds a magical book that seems to be the solution to this problem, but a dark sorcerer is after it and captures Nahuel's father. This is where his journey to rescue his father and overcome his fears begins.
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Las mujeres de mi casa
🇨🇱 ChileA family composed of three generations of women live in an old house in the neighborhood of Ñuñoa. On one hand, Leonor must decide her future, on the other hand, Monica must decide if she sells the house in which they have lived their entire lives while Emilia, must face her Alzheimer’s disease.
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#ChileDespertó
🇨🇱 ChileAfter the rise of 30 pesos on the Metro fare in Santiago (Chile), Chilean people rise up against the repressive measures of the government to stop the protests. With a scarf on the face and a camara, I’ll show the real upset of the social outbreak that woke up a country that was sleeping for 30 years amongst an illusion of democracy
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Onkel Günter
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010s The 1940sA Chilean family of German descendants must confront a painful episode dating back to World War II. Silence gives in when one of its members moves to Berlin and begins to research the disappearance of his grandfather’s twin brother, who was a pilot in the German Army. Back and forth, between Chile and Germany, the director turns into his own history to reflect on how his family’s memory has been shaped, and how past behaviors of the Nazi times have echoes in present generations in Chile.
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Mal vecino
🇨🇱 ChileMaule Sur is in struggle, the company Coexca S.A. dedicated to the breeding, slaughter and export of pig meat, decided to install in the rural area of the commune of San Javier a mega pig breeding plant, which would reach a total of 144 thousand animals, fear and mistrust, a series of irregularities that also adds to the current pollution that this plant is generating in the daily lives of the residents of San Javier and Cauquenes.
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Mosca
🇨🇱 ChileOnda corta, underground press and solidarity. Two old revolutionaries cross their lives in a sonic journey thanks to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow and its program Escucha Chile, violating Pinochet's iron censorship and revealing to the world through short wave the deep economic and social transformation that was hidden behind the violent repression.
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Frontera
🇨🇱 ChileJuan Carlos is a lonko who has fought in defense of Mapuche autonomy. Many question him because he agreed to work for the government in order to improve conditions in his community. At home he shares his concerns, while his animals watch the tension grow and the seasons advance.
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La Conmemoración
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sA week before the 1973 Chilean coup d'état 46th commemoration, Miguel and Gaston, electricians, come in aid of Victoria, the widow of an ex CNI agent, to fix a malfunction in her mansion. There, by chance, they will discover a big treasure hidden in the basement. The only problem is to get away with it unnoticed
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El Último Vuelo
🇨🇱 ChileA story in the Chilean countryside. Of those legends that the old ones tell. They say that a witch lived with Ariel, a boy who always wanted to fly. When the adolescence of young Ariel arrived, unfortunately, he lost all his family. Hopefully, he took it as an opportunity to leave. To a journey with no return, one that the witches had already destined.
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Ni juntos, ni solos
🇨🇱 ChileAmparo is 18 years old and lives in the city of Iquique, in northern Chile. Among confusion, she must deal with the discovery of her father's secret life, feel love for the first time, decide whether to leave her hometown to study, and even realize that perhaps friendship is not meant to be forever.
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Pampa
🇨🇱 ChileA look at the last saltpetre office on earth — In the middle of the Atacama Desert is the last saltpetre settlement still inhabited. Known as Maria Elena, its inhabitants are reluctant to leave it behind, clinging to their memory and to their dead.
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La Muerte Está en Los Catres
🇨🇱 Chile The 2000sKaren, a former professional soccer player born in Puente Alto in the southern part of Santiago. Rosa, her grandmother, assumes the role of mother and becomes a fundamental piece in Karen's life and career. In 2008 Karen begins a love relationship with her neighbor Mariel, a year later they get married in the company of family and close friends. Coto, Mariel's father, never questioned the relationship and accepts that Mariel and Karen move in with him. They will share, joys, fears, life and also death. A record that moves between madness and lucidity, an invitation to feel the heroic act of simply being and being. To resist.
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The Sky Is Red
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sIn 2010, 81 inmates died in a huge fire at San Miguel prison in Chile’s capital city Santiago. Inside, they were trapped behind bars like rats; outside, dozens of family members waiting for visiting hours to begin looked on helplessly as their loved ones shouted for help. The doors remained locked. This reconstruction sheds light on the utter failure of the prison’s administration, which was housing twice as many prisoners as permitted.
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Femme Fatale
🇨🇱 ChileAn anthology of three shorts. In Pájaro negro, Stella has her first date on Halloween night in an isolated area filled with superstitions. In La matanza fallida de los chitrulos subnormales, the Luna brothers, three women killers, make an appointment with their new prospective victim, but nothing will go as usual. Finally, in Suburbios del terror, some youngsters roam through the streets of Valparaíso closely followed by a journalist who is on the trail of a cruel killer who slaughters young people to preserve his own youth.
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Fixed Shot - 100 Recordings around Dignity Square
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sOn October 18, 2019, Chile lives the most important social uprising since its return to democracy. “Italy Square” (neuralgic center of the capital), is re-baptized by the protesters as “Dignity Square”, transforming it into an iconic place of social demands.
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Polar
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sIf the job doesn't kill you, retirement will — When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
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Claudia Touched by the Moon
🇨🇱 ChileA Trans Woman's Diary — Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still excludes those that are considered "different".
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Ema
🇨🇱 ChileShe has a plan. — Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.
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Lina from Lima
🇨🇱 ChileIt’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.
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Story of My Name
🇨🇱 ChileA peculiar coincidence — After a fire destructed my house, I return to the places where I grew up looking for childhood recollections. In this journey appears the memory of a photo for Karin Eitel, a young woman, tortured and detained during the dictatorship, to whom I owe my name. A story that my parents never told me, brings me closer to Karin and not just because of my name. In the background, the memory of a childhood in Chile, a country that reconstructed its democracy omitting its own history.
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The Lost Frame
🇨🇱 ChileA Chilean filmmaker makes a return trip through his filmography in search of a forgotten frame.The Lost Frame is a retrospective documentary about work,themes and reflections around images.
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Some Beasts
🇨🇱 ChileA family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
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The Prince
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sChile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
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Lemebel
🇨🇱 ChilePedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas, stilettos and a sharp tongue, he staged revolutionary performances that defied the era’s terror, he said what no one wanted to hear in a homophobic, repressed and militarized country.
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Reflejo actoral
🇨🇱 ChileA group of Chilean actors reflect on their works when they see footage off their characters on film and TV.
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Perro bomba
🇨🇱 ChileA young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, will see his life balance shaken after a series of unexpected events that will fuel a deep racist reactions in his environment.
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Spider
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThe past is always present — Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
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God
🇨🇱 ChileIn a country at the world's end, the highest authority of the Catholic Church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the most important religious crisis in its history.
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The Guru
🇨🇱 ChileIn the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the machine turn, except when he is a machine himself, like when he delivers blows on the punching-ball. A machine that dreams of glory. Because in his other life, Carlos is little-by-little becoming “the Guru”, who ceaselessly trains in what little leisure time he has so that he can win his match.
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Alvaro: Rockstars Don’t Wet the Bed
🇨🇱 ChileDocumentary on the exhaustive and controversial work of the musician Álvaro Peña, born in Valparaíso and settled decades ago in the city of Konstanz (Germany)
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Gepe y Margot Loyola: Folclor imaginario
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010s"Folclor imaginario" was one of the most acclaimed Chilean albums of 2018, and this documentary sets in front of the camera the reasons, searches and associations that led to such brilliant result of crossing with the tradition
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Normalistas. Amor por la enseñanza
🇨🇱 ChileThe story of primary teachers in Chile and their links with feminist struggles for a free and quality education; which nowadays is the most significant social movement in the country.
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Perros sin cola
🇨🇱 ChileRosario is a wandering teenager who believes that her mother, does not really love her and she's apparently right. The young woman has found refuge in the dance and in her friend Jonathan, a young street vendor who helps raise money for the wedding of his sister Jenny: Rosario's silent and platonic love. On the day of the party the revelry and excesses revealing Rosario can't leaver her family's fate behind.
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El maestro Humberto Maturana
🇨🇱 ChileThis documentary explores the impact and life of one of the most internationally recognized Chilean scientists, an inspiring human being who at his 90 years is more lively than ever.
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Harley Queen
🇨🇱 ChileA woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
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La embajada
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sCarmen Castillo reconstructs what life was like at the French Embassy in Chile from September 1973 to July 1974, through the writings of Françoise de Menthon, wife of the ambassador, and the testimonies of both embassy officials from that time andr some of its hundreds of refugees. A story about how humanistic values and ethics can be imposed at critical moments to bureaucracy, formalisms and, especially, fear.
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The Strong Ones
🇨🇱 ChileA story of love and bravery at the end of the world — Lucas travels to visit his sister to a remote town in southern Chile. In front of the ocean and the fog, he meets Antonio, a boatswain in a local fishing boat. When an intense romance grows between them, their strength, their independence and their adulthood become immovable in front of the tide.
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