Discoveries from Chile World Cinema

This documentary by José Luis Valenzuela meticulously follows each step in the evolution of the creative process of this fundamental work in the history of Los Jaivas, Mamalluca.

Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.

Live Concert by the band "De Saloon" recorded on August 1, 2009 with an audience of 2,000 people at the Teatro Teletón, during the releasing of their fourth studio album, “Delicada Violencia.”

Los Jaivas played for the first time on Rapa Nui on May 5, 2006, fulfilling a long-held dream. José Luis Valenzuela, using this concert as the central focus of his narrative, juxtaposes it with domestic scenes, work scenes, timeless images, and breathtaking landscapes that evoke the first morning of the world, allowing us to share the band's experience of trying to understand this ancient culture.

Isidora immerses itself, in the manner of a journey through time and space, in the life of Chilean playwright Isidora Aguirre (1919-2011) and in the main ones of her 30 plays, which are recreated on screen by outstanding actors. Mixing family archives, life diaries and interviews she gave at the age of 91, the film becomes the creative biography of the author of La Pergola de las Flores, her most famous work, and opens the door to the social and political issues she narrated in her theater, the utopias that could not be and the conflicts that are still ongoing in Latin America.

Tulio and company disembark to present the final show of their «world tour», but Guaripolo, pretending to be a policeman, puts serious obstacles in their way so that they can present their show.

Rodrigo is a famous Youtuber who spends all day online. He has many cyber followers and an almost perfect life. One day the Internet is banned throughout the country, so Rodrigo will be forced to find a way to reconnect with people without a computer.

In 1987 and to the beat of two songs by The Cure, an anonymous Chilean collective filmed the clandestine processes of organising protests, making Molotov cocktails and confrontations with the military in the films Orgasmo Callejero and One Player. Colectivo Cámara en Mano was an informative film and video group that made a series of films and public interventions in the last years of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Tulio and his friends want to participate in the Puppeton festival with the group Los Ratoncitos, but they don't have the voices to sing. To do so, they must find the witch so she can cast a spell on them again.

At the height of the Peruvian armed conflict, a mother's world shatters after her son vanishes without a trace.

Laberinto explores the institutional insult against sex-dissidents exposed by the press during the 20th century in Chile, stressing concepts such as revenge and resistance, leather and hegemony. This short is both a denunciation and a tribute to the "fag" rebellion.

THREE BROTHERS. MISSING PARENTS. THE PAST WILL PROVIDE THE TRUTH. The middle daughter deals with the disappearance of her parents while her older brother starts acting strange. All this while taking care of her younger brother.

A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.

An 80-year-old actress returns to the small Chilean town of her youth to fulfill her father's dream of creating a TV channel in a place which has never known television.

Catalina is an influencer that stopped believing in Santa Claus and decides to ruin her siblings Christmas.

The second last show on Sonic Youth's sad final stanza, a festival tour of South America that eventually took them to Chile for the Maquinaria Festival. Putting on a brave face, the band run through a set of hits with some deeper cuts as well, before replacing the planned 'White Cross' encore with a ten-minute 'Teen Age Riot'.

A police story from the mind of a murderer.

From the creators of 31 Minutos, here comes the story of a rock that didn't want to grow up...

On January 4, 1971, an extensive dialogue takes place between the president of Chile Salvador Allende and the French intellectual Regis Debray, a discussion about the Chilean process towards the installation of a socialist government. Filmed by a team from Chilefilms, a state-owned company dedicated to the production of audiovisual works, it is a unique testimony to Allende's thinking in the first year of his government.

Isabel (17) spends the last days of summer camping with her sister Camila (27) and brother-in-law Miguel (29). A few days before the trip ends, Isabel finds refuge in the love she discovers in Victoria (18). What seems like a love story is shaken after a night in which Miguel abuses Isabel. The safe space is no longer safe. Isabel must deal with her own questions, guilt, and internal pressures, deciding to destroy herself so as not to destroy her sister.

Camila is a young woman tormented by cannibalistic thoughts. When one day her partner, Victoria, volunteers to satisfy that need, Camila is torn by an internal conflict that, in the days that follow, will make her oscillate between desire, love, and guilt, confronting the emotional roots of her compulsion in search of a decision.

An actor who was famous and successful when he was just a 15-year-old teenager starring in the movie "The Pool Cleaner." Today, he finds himself without a job, without money and without friends, still living in his parents' house.

Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.

Light through the stained glass, spiritual architecture, musical light for the eyes. A prayer for times of war. Recorded with a cell phone at the Apostle Saint Matthew Cathedral, in the City of Osorno (Chile)

A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion

A young sculptor struggles to finish his masterpiece, a sculpture of a woman, as it inexplicably cracks.

While Thomas spends his last weekend in Chile with his family, before traveling abroad for the first time, a flaw in the sewage system produces a flood of smelly water. The problem shows the essence of family relationships.

A journey back to the darkest years of the military dictatorship, where Valeria Sarmiento, using for the first time in her career her own voice, reflects on the traces of the political violence of that period and summons the testimony of victims and privileged witnesses, but also the opinion of scientists, memory theorists and researchers of genocides of other times. The result is an intimate account of how these traces have impregnated our life stories, our bodies and also our landscape.

In a near future, human DNA has been modified to receive internet signals, and by law, everyone must remain connected. Celeste is on the verge of collapse; the constant hyperconnectivity is suffocating her. But when a mysterious AI, housed in a phone-shaped building, offers her a service as tempting as it is dangerous —to disconnect from the network forever— Celeste must decide if freedom is worth the risk.

Mirna and Pablo start a friendship framed in reflections about identity, loneliness and death during the 90's in Chile. A story about fellowship and HIV/AIDS, inspired by the literary work of Pedro Lemebel.

In a town inside the capital; Hugo and his wife await the arrival of their only son Cristobal and his best friend who have just arrived from a trip to Europe. When the family gets together again, all the truths hidden by the characters will come out, truths that could destroy the order of this common family.

After disappearing during a dive at sea, Cristián, a Chilean fisherman trapped in his own violence and guilt, returns months later to his village, physically and spiritually changed. Suspected of not being himself and haunted by visions and secrets from the past, he begins a surreal journey towards redemption with Marisol, a woman marked by her own trauma. In this world where the boundaries between the human and the mythical are blurred, both must face their deepest scars to be reborn or lost forever.

A group of teenagers spend their last night together in an isolated cabin in rural. As the night progresses, the silence of the surroundings and the growing sense of isolation begin to fracture their relationships. What starts as a simple gathering slowly turns into an experience that will leave lasting marks on those who survive the night

Propagandistic documentary aiming to demonstrate how vigorous and prosperous the provinces of Tacna and Arica were at that time, despite being in dispute, but under predominantly Chilean influence, investment, and administration.

A stop-motion documentary that describes the artificial mummification (black and red mummies) of the Chinchorro culture, a pre-hispanic society of fishermen and hunter-gatherers who practiced funeral rites with sophisticated techniques for body preservation 7,000 years ago, originating on the Camarones coast of Chile.

Drinking water has run out on the planet and a little girl does everything she can to keep her goldfish alive with the last bottles of water she has hidden, until the day she runs out of the last bottle.

Daniel has a recurring dream, where he plays in a rock band.

The story derives from the experiences of Mary Monahan, one of hundreds to accuse filmmaker James Toback of sexual abuse.

A small time capsule that portrays what was -and will continue to be- the date lived in Viel last April 27th, 2025 with the bands Cóclea, Canut de Bon and Conato. You may not be able to go back exactly to that moment, but you can relive it through the eyes of others.

Francisco (21) discovers that his brother Tomás (26) has been accused of sexual abuse through social networks. As Tomás's birthday approaches, Francisco will have to make a decision regarding the accusation.

A crime has occurred in room 4B! A classmate has had a priceless and precious toy stolen: the Scarlet Tamagotchi. So Iñaki and his turtle friend Cecilio transform themselves into 1940s private detectives to solve the mystery. However, they will have to face dark forces that will not make their task easy.

Testimonies about the social and feminine marginality of female residents. The need to face problems through collective discussion. Filmed in a camp in Ochagavía.

After spending the night with Jane, Juan discovers a new phase in his obsession with Hong Kong.

On Saturday, April 27, 1985, Los Jaivas made their first presentation in the United States, at Carnegie Hall in New York, in the concert of Erwin Frankel's "New Audiences" cycle.

Gáspar is a public employee and Rebeca works in a funeral home,they reflect the discontent of a generation that has suffered the vicissitudes of Chile in the 1980s. Through it, the film explores how the working middle class survives such a convulsive environment.

Jonathan is a vampire who seeks to get away from his addiction to blood, moving to the outskirts of the city working as a mechanic. However, the weight of his hunger will be felt more than ever when two strangers seek his services.

Mass student protests took place in Chile between 2011 and 2013 demanding a free and state-funded education system and radical change in society. CHILE'S STUDENT UPRISING puts these protests in their historical context of widespread dissatisfaction with the economic model put in place under the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), but that still remains largely in place. The film’s director travelled to Chile between 2011 and 2013 to speak to then student leaders such as Camila Vallejo and Giorgio Jackson (now key figures in the Gabriel Boric government), and also to other students, to explore why their protests had caused such effect in Chile and inspired others in the country and beyond.

Visits the workshops of prominent Chilean painters and sculptors, a vision of artistic creation takes shape. Finally, the first Plastic Arts Fair in Parque Forestal was held, where several of them exhibited their works in the open air.

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and experiences. They reflect about filial love, gender and isolation through her overbearing nature.

At the show's studio, everyone was ready and willing to spend Christmas—the happiest day of the year—at home, but Sr. Manguera informs them that, by contract, the 31 minutos crew is obligated to put on a show. special, so they have to put one together in record time. Bodoque is in charge of looking for the gifts at Rosario Central, but he succumbs to Tío Pelado's temptation to bet them on the horse races.