2216 Matches Found
After 40 years working in the mine at Tierra del Fuego, Toto doesn’t qualify for the social security that would allow him to retire. So his son Jorge attempts to build a gold harvesting machine to bring them a better future.
Journalistic investigation that exposes unknown details of the air mission that bombed the Chilean presidential house of La Moneda in 1973.
Agustín finds himself in the middle of a chaotic dispute between his father and his mother, without being able to do anything about it.
After living their whole lives together in a fishing village in southern Chile, Daniel leaves Jenny to head to the capital in search of new opportunities. Two years later, overcome with nostalgia, Daniel returns to Caleta Tumbes to say goodbye for good.
Hayashi, a typical white-collar japanese worker, lives passively the ravages of the daily routine in Tokyo. Little by little his personal life is revealed and in it loneliness and frustration are discovered within a society in which work never stops.
Carmela (35) is pregnant. Ivan, her current boyfriend, and Marcos, her ex, are gathered at her house. They are friends and coworkers. Carmela acts on pure impulse and announces the news of the pregnancy in front of both of them. In private, Carmela tells Marcos that he is the biological father.
Nieves runs a swimming pool with her son Martin. One summer, a biker falls for her. Things between them don’t seem to work out, until a filming crew arrives at the pool while scouting for locations and the director decides to put Natacha and the biker in her film.
A cardboard house is built as refuge for the remains of a family's home video archives. Memories of maternal guidance, tenderness, and reunion are brought to life by following a child's early years.
After their mother’s death, Fernanda (19) and Francisca (25), return to Antofagasta to sell the house where they grew up. There, Fernanda confronts her mourning’s misadjustment, her mother’s absence and a city she once knew.
3 new songs by the Chilean musician Leo Quinteros.
In a drought-ravaged town, Judith has the mysterious gift of finding water underground. One day, a strange force draws her to an old well, where she senses a presence, pushing her into a social struggle to uncover the truth.
Off the coast of Manquemapu, Chile, buried beneath the indifferent waves, lies the wreck of the Janequeo. The ship capsized in 1965, and 51 people lost their lives. While the sea has swallowed the wreck, on land the memory of this disaster lives on—in the people and in the landscape.
Experimental short film of colors and lights
The documentary essay explores the earthquakes, the republic, the ancestors, the mining industry and the concept of time as symbols of the Chilean and Mapuche identities; as their parallel realities turn in opposite directions.
During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into a group they call the “Dawsonianas.”
Miguel is a renowned taxidermist and an expert hunter. He is always visited by clients seeking to naturalize pets and exotic animals. Through his work, Miguel will make us reflect on how we relate to other species.
A role-playing game takes a sinister turn when David rolls a die and is dragged into a dark world that, until then, seemed to exist only in the game. Trapped in the ruins of a castle and hunted by an undead creature, David will try to survive at all costs.
Chile would become the first country in the world to democratically elect a Marxist president, Salvador Allende. After his arrival to the government in 1970, the class struggle would reach a decisive point for the country in 1973.
The story of Luisa Kiara Marabolí Barrientos, a pioneer of Neighborhood Council 139 in Montedónico, Valparaíso, and her journey from living 44 years in obscurity under an imposed identity to becoming a proud social leader and role model in her community.
In 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.
Pedro and Cati live in the San Gregorio township. They must fight for their love despite the over-protection and fears of their families.
During the intermission of the ballet Giselle, Victoria, a promising young dancer, clashes with her mother Soledad —a failed ballerina who projects her own disappointment onto her daughter. Inside the dressing room, applause fades into tension, and admiration turns into something far darker.
Through interviews, different mothers are asked to recall a precious moment with their children that has not been recorded, and then draw that moment and use it to fill the gap in a photo album.
Javiera (23) lives with her mother Claudia and her grandfather Luis, who has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. As a result of this situation, Javiera decides to document Luis's life, having to decide whether to fulfill his last great wish to go abroad or let him spend his last days confined to his home.
Angelica has dreamed all her life of hunting an angel.
A spring afternoon on the San Cristobal hill, in downtown Santiago de Chile. Four friends and a sound engineer talk about the events seen and experienced during the popular revolt that began in 2019 in Chile. The film brings to the surface certain conversations related to any revolution: hope, disillusionment, fire, torture and police violence, but above all the importance of collective memory.
The inhabitants of Maria Elena, the driest place on Earth, were chosen to be the first to colonize Mars. The people are torn between the decision to leave their roots, the heat, the economic debacle and the new promise of progress, this time on another planet. The pampinos prepare to leave their past behind and embark on a space voyage, the last exodus from the saltpeter pampas.
Marcela, Anabella and Estrella are three trans women who have defied the lifespan expected for a trans person. Through their recollections, one explores the memory’s strength, resistance and love for life of these three women.
The discovery of audio tapes recorded by Eugenio Berríos, known as the "chemist of Augusto Pinochet", forms the basis for reconstructing his rise and fall. His life traces a thin black line through Chile's recent history—dictatorships, lethal poisons, and mountains of cocaine—within a political life so violent it ultimately led to his own self-destruction.
In his final moments, elderly Fernando falls into a trance where his mind, like a wandering ghost, finds refuge in an old palace from the last century. In the middle of an imposing hall, photographs of his youth are projected: beach vacations, birthdays, and portraits of his beloved Ani, who left long before him. Two female figures appear on the projection, invoking a ritual where the living and the dead meet again, and where our gaze is both complicit and participatory in this final family reunion.
A young man, unsatisfied with his life and overwhelmed by adulthood, reminisces about childhood to a dangerous degree.
When the World is immersed in total darkness by a mysterious phenomenon, an everyday student must decide between staying righteous or give himself to his own dark side.
Ernesto, 40 years old, a successful chef who after being fired comes to live with his brother with down syndrome, Felipe, 35 years old. Their relationship is strained due to childhood differences.
Cinematic memorial, designed to echo the names and memories of the underage victims of forced disappearance during the military dictatorship.
Following the death of the mayor, an electoral campaign begins in the fictional town of Huevinco to choose a successor. A comedy-like set of situations unfolds, creating a story centred on comedian Manolo González.
A small tribute in memory of the filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.
Javier breaks up with his girlfriend because he can't eat a hot dog in front of her, Naranja is studying to enter college. Together, they walk around Santiago.
In April 2043, astrobiologist Xue Noon finds herself stranded in the GAIA International Antarctic Station. As the polar night closes in, she connects herself to the Ai-system. She scavenges digital memories and archives of the time she spent at King George Island with her father back in 2015.
At the beginning of the summer of 1986, a group of actors and actresses directed by Andrés Pérez, put on the street the play “All these years” presented in front of the Cathedral of Santiago, the Bellavista neighborhood, the La Bandera district, the Parque O'Higgins, Plaza del Mulato and many other places in Santiago. Armed with megaphones, costumes, musical instruments, giant dolls, stilts and banners, they set up shop in different parts of the city where they raised scaffolding on which they climbed to summon the public to witness their show of singing, music, dancing and pantomime in the who told stories that quietly delved into the events of the last years of the military dictatorship at the end of the 1980s. 25 years passed, Andrés Pérez had died and the street actors became references in theater and television, when Flores returned to the eighties images to create this tribute documentary.
The players of the Chile women's national football teamnot only fight against other teams but they also face the prejudices and inequalities of a historically male field.
Working in a recycling factory, a group of people come together and decide to restart their lives finding themselves through love and self-improvement.
Within the living matter of the garden, among the leaves and thorns, prayer-poems emerge. Garden maintenance becomes an ethical dilemma; pruning becomes a question of fragile ecosystems and the site’s memory—where community, cleanliness, and beautification confront vegetal time and its reverberations.
An hour, an adress, a street.
Amidst a psychotic episode, a young man breaks into a house and is confronted by the homeowner, their underlying connection unbeknownst to both of them.
Selva, thirteen years old, discovers that when we die we just shed our skin. We can turn into wolves, goats, shadows, or anything as long as your imagination allows it.
Agustín finds himself in the middle of a chaotic dispute between his father and his mother, without being able to do anything about it.
Mr. Floridor, a beloved old man, drives his vehicle in the company of his faithful dog Anacleto. His path, full of funny incidents, is suddenly involved in repetitive events that lead to an unexpected end.
The closure of the Cochran bar in Valparaíso confronts the forgotten rocker Ricky Palace with the dilemma of retreating to the south to start a new life or fighting for the hit that was stolen from him, risking becoming a ghost in his beloved port.
During two summer travels to the town of Quisco in the years 2024 and 2025, Ivo Byrt explores the life of his grandma, Miria Manzano in a warm and intimate look at family and love.
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.
Death, as well as the opportunity for new life, is a duality that is part of the essence of Placilla de Peñuelas.