Discoveries from Chile World Cinema

After stealing a woman's cell phone, a young man digs into it to steal her money only to find himself becoming attracted to her.

Three stories rooted in violence, mental erosion and hopes that ran through Chile's soul.

Tiziano is a little boy almost like the others, who grows up between the demonstrations in Chile, the history of his family and the innocence of his age.

The life of the composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist Violeta Parra, in stop-motion animation.

A second-class saxophonist's failures makes him fall into the nocturnal underworld, and eventually in jail. There he meets a manipulative and perverse mobster who senses the man's successful wife could be his key to launch a big criminal hit.

After opening a chest of memories, a girl narrates events from chilean dictatorship and the murder of Nadia Fuentes Concha through the figure of bread, which is present in chilean everyday life.

Yun is grounded by her father for spending three days away from home for breaking family traditions. In her stoic nocturnal journey through the streets, malls and service centers, Yun experiences an accelerated maturity, of which she only realizes when she returns and faces her father.

We remain on the street, this space that is perhaps the great territory of invention for Latin American cinema. Held at the Centro de Cine Experimental of the Universidad de Chile - one of the most prolific and enduring poles of militant cinematographic production at the time -, this experimental fiction about class relations is one of Miguel Littín's first films, which would become one of the central references of the political cinema in Latin America. Por la tierra ajena was one of many films that sought to take part in the process of raising awareness that would lead to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.

The military statue is absent, yet its presence reigns; it seems like an open wound. With each turn, more buds of time bloom. There are multiple rhythms and points of view in a brief, eternal moment. An exercise in the effect of speed and its personal interplay with the viewer. Photos taken at the scene on October 18, 2024, the fifth anniversary of the 2019 Social Uprising. 35mm B&W Still Photography. Silent. Flickering Lights.

Manuel has spent almost half his life behind bars and is facing his release. Of the crime he committed we are not sure. Dark and solitary in nature, his only hope is to get closer to his only daughter. However, in his transit through Valparaíso he meets Nico, a young man who prostitutes himself with older men, who welcomes him and decides to help him.

It's Christmas Eve and in the solitude of his office, Félix reflects on the most traumatic Christmas of his childhood by watching some mini Dv from an old box of childhood memories, thus rethinking relationship with his father.

In La Lágrima, a desertic mining lost town, women live under the strict rules of patriarchy. Dina (16), pressed by an unwanted pregnancy, plans to escape. But when she finds out her sister Sariri (11), has to initiate womanhood after the arrival of her menarche, she’ll have to decide if they’ll escape together through the desert.

An audiovisual testimony about the history and evolution of Tiro de Gracia, one of the most iconic Chilean hip-hop groups. Created at a time when the genre was beginning to establish itself in the national scene, this documentary showcases the group’s trajectory following the success of their album Ser Humano!! (1997), which marked a before-and-after in the country’s urban music.

Committed to unearthing her ancestors' silenced history, Margarita embarks on a profound journey, guided by the diary of Katrulaf, an indigenous Mapuche prisoner of war. She retraces the Mapuches’ deportation route, and in unearthing these pasts, gives voice to a displaced people and the genocide inflicted upon them during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.

Yeka’s childhood shatters when she loses her best friend. Determined to understand what really happened, she must face hard truths that will upend everything she thought she knew about her family—and the fragile world around her.

A group of left-wing intellectuals take over a building with the purpose of forming a Ministry of Culture, however, the workers oppose the takeover. Intellectuals and workers establish a coexistence pact while waiting for Godoy, a union boss. After conflicts over ideological differences about culture, the takeover dissolves, just when Godoy appears with a totally elitist and apolitical discourse.

A misfit voyeurist must learn to be a common human to find the love that will give meaning to his life.

A country boy loves the daughter of his boss and godfather. An engineer who comes from the city is interested in the young woman who corresponds to him against his will.

In a place in northern Chile where oral tradition, myths and history are mixed in a single mysterious universe, four stories take place surrounded by emotion, music and local identity.

Forming part of a film constellation that stretches from Chile across the Pacific, in which Malena Szlam trains her camera on far-flung volcanic landscapes — by turns barren and verdant — the dazzling in-camera multiple exposures of Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya evoke the layered histories of the titular Bunya Mountains in eastern Australia’s Beerwah region, further deepened by sonified atmospheres from artist Lawrence English.

A twisted utopia unfolds, as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Crafted by a sentient machine from the future, it unveils its own version of paradise.

A young detective must take charge of a dark and dangerous counterfeiting money case.

In the near future, María faces the unexpected death of her husband after New Year's Eve. After being depressed for some time due to this sudden loss, she goes to a place where, through a simulation, they manage to recreate their last important memory together, where she manages to have a connection with him.

A sinister man has found a mineral seam and pretends to love the daughter of a leading businessman in order to finance his mining project.

Because peace was never an option

Two bored friends decide to go out hunting. They find a suited executive and turn his night into a sadistic game. No rules. No mercy. Just points.

Danae, a crime writer, experiences a frightening experience with the creature that has haunted her dreams for a while now.

Ten young women who used to live on the streets of Bogotá close their eyes and conjure Alis. This documentation of delicate conversations depicts the imaginary friend evolving into a surface for the projection of personal experiences and a proxy for nascent dreams.

Timothy Connor died during a spring break weekend in 1967, the victim of a car accident. 56 years later, his soul finally arrives at the pier. Signals is a poetic meditation on time, memory, and the persistence of desire. A journey between dimensions, where the fantastic intertwines with the intimate.

Based on the "Bringing Up Father" comic strip. Jiggs, a middle class man, suddenly becomes a millionaire, but does not want to abandon his old friends or his old habits. As he does not want to live like a millionaire without doing anything, nor does he want to abandon his old life, he manages to work in a variety of trades, often fantastic, such as street singer, aviator, colonizer of the planet Mars, champion horseman, etc., or simply going out partying with his usual friends. Eventually, he has to confront his wife, Crisanta, a neurotic and conceited social climber, who is delighted with her new situation. Currently considered a lost film.

A tormented man tells his psychologist about the visits of a presence that wants something he struggles to keep.

Directed by Pablo de la Barra, Queridos compañeros (1977) is a Chilean-Venezuelan political drama that delves into the fervent revolutionary movements of the late 1960s. The film follows a group of young radical leftists that struggle to change the Chilean political status quo. The production of Queridos compañeros faced significant challenges, since filming started in 1973 but was abruptly halted due to the military coup in Chile that year. Director Pablo de la Barra managed to save the film's footage but lost the original audio tracks. In exile in Venezuela, he reconstructed the sound with the help of the original actors, completing the film in 1977. The film offers a poignant reflection on the aspirations and struggles of a generation striving for systemic change, providing insight into the political dynamics of Chile during a tumultuous period.

Set in Chilean Patagonia, the magical tale explores Nicolas' addiction to video games, and his path to healing when he meets a local shaman on the day of a Solar Eclipse.

Chile's economic crisis of 1980s. A career criminal constantly surrounded by drugs, alcohol, and scams. His mother begs the boy to travel to south to reform himself. There, he falls in love with a young woman with dark secrets of her own.

During the filming of a slasher, those in charge of the Making Of become interested in Door Handle Actor: a young man in charge of moving the doors in films. Door Handle Actor's values ​​are tested by an abusive director.

The seductive quality of the night of a saturday where both the rich and the poor experience the drunken urgency of the party and the clock.

Daniela wanders around Santiago in search of "The City of the Caesars", a Chilean film that has disappeared. She meets Bárbara and Manuel, who admits her to bohemian Santiago. The search for the film will generate new finds. Music and friendship will be the pillars of memory.

The inhabitants of the Humboldt Archipelago have a strong connection to their territory and the sea, which will become the main driving force to defend the nature and biodiversity of the area against the threat posed by the installation of the Dominga mining project and the Cruz Grande mega port.

David and Enrique have been friends for over 15 years. Both film lovers, they decide to venture to the Atacama Desert to shoot a feature film. With no acquaintances, no locations, no actors, and only $11,000 and a lot of enthusiasm, they travel to Chile for 21 days with the dream of making a movie. Everything seems to be going well until, on the last day of filming, a tragic accident ends their friendship.

During the pandemic, Reina sells meat stolen by her cousin from door to door. Until one night, in a desolated street, she is mugged by robbers on motorbikes. Lim and Clara help her and they become friends—this way, a plot full of suspicion begins.

Salvador moves to London from Chile to study English and travel around Europe at his parents’ expense. He stays with his aunt María, who makes a rather decent living renting the rooms of her house to other immigrants. Difficult and challenging situations will force Salvador out of his protected bourgeois reality and into the real world.

A man who can't defecate and buys some strange herbs that cause a strange mutation.

A documentary that chronicles a plan to build five large hydroelectric dams on two of the world's purest free-flowing rivers in Patagonia, Chile.

Thirteen-year-old Bobi lives in a small town in southern Chile. He was born with a strange condition: from the waist down, he has dog legs. His life is turned upside down when he meets Carlos, a man in his fifties who has recently lost his son and suffers from mental health issues.

The film narrates the problems faced by a small group from the small imaginary town of Tunco that arrives in Santiago to ask their representative in parliament for the construction of a road to improve communication alternatives for the inhabitants of the southern hamlet.

A long walk home sets the scene for young romance, a trip to the beach becomes an opportunity for quiet reflection and self-acceptance, a naïve mother uncovers the secret life of her daughter, and a sullen teenager sees a new side to her mother. Re-live the journey of young love through six coming-of-age stories exploring chance encounters and hidden longings.

Jacinta has a complete relationship with her mother and finds refuge through her toys.

Patagonia before its borders was inhabited by the Aonikenk, who walked through the territory in peace and tranquility, this is the story of their displacement from the territory by Governments and States for commercial interests.

An ogre is trapped against his will in the Albariscopio, a mechanical underground world ruled by the Mad Ogre King. Hypnotized by the sparkle of a strange diamond, the ogre travels through this underground labyrinth alongside his faithful skeleton ally, defying the evil ruler as they encounter terrifying creatures on their journey to escape the caves and finally see the light.

There's a new hero in town.