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March 1978, Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, during the exhibition “Museo Salvador Allende” a collective mural was made, there the Chilean painter José Balmes worked, together with the Swedish artists Enno Hallek, Jan Háfström, Ulf Ramberg, Stefan Telemen and Hans Viksten.
The routine and intimacy of Los Bunkers in their life in Mexico is recorded in this documentary about the rock band from Concepción.
A previously lost political satire animation about Arturo Alessandri, the recently elect president of Chile at that time.
Trespassing a cabin while they take shelter from a storm in the middle of the patagonian forest, Daniel faces his last chance to come clean about his feelings for his best friend Franco, right before his departure for college.
The life of young people in the Villa Wolf sector in the town of La Pincoya at the end of the eighties. Work carried out thanks to the Soinde health program, Conchalí office and the La Ventana cultural center.
After the tragic death of her eldest son, Blanca and her family travel to the coast of Chile. Weird things happen in the new house, Blanca thinks that it is her son trying to communicate with them, but the truth is much worse. An evil spirit with a thirst for revenge is stalking them. Only the town priest can help them, but the man of the cloth is hiding a terrible secret.
Otro Sol is a group of real and invented characters trapped in a film. It is also a purgatory of retired thieves that takes place on the coast of the Atacama Desert. The film is circular and seeks to invent and verify the myth of Alberto Cándia, a Chilean international thief who stole the Cathedral of Cadiz in Andalucia in the late 1980s.
Lucas, Pablo, and the rest of the Proyecto Lupa team come together once again to commemorate their history.
A former New York Times reporter finds himself in a South American country investigating the brutal murder of three women on the banks of the Caya River. This is Fletcher, who will soon meet the Motoa brothers to gather more information about what happened. However, Fletcher is kidnapped by a group of narco-guerrillas, who torture and interrogate him about his alleged connection with a communist insurgent named Tomás. Fletcher knows he has reached what he calls "The Deathroom." He knows that very few live to tell of this experience, and that his chances of getting out alive are slim. From weakness and desperation, strength and the most incredible plan will emerge to save himself. Will he manage to survive, as fantastic as it may sound?
Four people with problematic relationships catch a deadly std that brings out their basic instincts.
Ana Luisa is single and has been getting up early to open the hairdresser's shop in her living room for 30 years. Tato is married, and has been getting up even earlier to go to the Brasil neighborhood and attend Ana Luisa's hairdressing salon for 40 years. Hairstyles and cuts, it is the only thing left to offer. The hairdresser's is her refuge in the middle of a neighborhood that has become too young for their eyes. Among those who visit them is Aurora, a goddaughter who offers Ana Luisa an opportunity to try to revive the business. The plan is simple: she makes some flyers to be handed out in the square. Ana Luisa doesn't see the point of trying something like this, Tato believes that nothing is lost. They agree on one thing: handing them out will mean accepting anyone who wants to go for a cut, even the young people who they say mistreat the neighborhood.
The main character looks for a lost dog. An existential wandering through the streets of a working-class neighbourhood in Chile as a free, musical gesture. An ode to stray dogs.
Irma (40) is a widow with agoraphobia and thanatophobia who collects dead insects in a small chest. He lives in the south of Chile in one of the rooms of his big house with his son Adrián (22). One day, Adrián gives her the news that he must go to do his drag queen show out of town for a few days, so she must stay home alone and face her fears materialized in the Queen of Insects.
This is a film about the September 11, 1973 military coup in Chile, from the point of view of Chileans who were born and grew up after this traumatic event. Based on improvisations and collective creation work, groups of pre-schoolers, adolescents, and university students from different social, cultural, and political origins, recreate history through mise-en-scenes that come from their own imaginations. The film articulates this creative vortex in a multiple-narrative flowing cinematic mosaic that gives an account of contemporary Chile by reliving its past.
An elderly man walks with the aid of his cane through the southern forests. He wears green overalls and is surrounded by a landscape of lichen-covered logs and leafless trees, marked by the presence of a bitter winter in Tierra del Fuego. He is Germán Genskowski. He is accompanied by documentary filmmaker Mateo Barrenegoa and photographer Guy Wenborne, whose mission is to portray him.
In a future where people that work in the medical field are forced to carry a device that monitors their levels of burnout, Ricardo (42), an ICU doctor, is sent to a rehabilitation center to recover from his burnout syndrome. With the help of his psychiatrist, John (35), Ricardo will face his inner demons to finally make peace with the emotions and pain that keeps on tormenting him.
Santiago, Chile, 1985. Best friends Camila and Paula, both 7 years old, are neighbours. Living amidst sweetness and bitterness, their lives, along with those of their families and their neighbourhood, are shaped by the horrors of Pinochet's military dictatorship.
An observational journey through downtown Santiago during the post-lockdown period, where thousands of workers flood the city each day, exposing the fragile line between survival, exhaustion, and collective abandonment in the midst of the pandemic.
About the coup in Chile. Animation of children's drawings with the music of Violeta Parra.
Carlos Meléndez is unemployed, and finding himself without basic services such as gas, water and electricity. For twelve hours, he will have to endure and battle against the various ills of a congested city - bureaucratic secretaries of ill will, punk criminals, policemen, among others- in order to seek the respect of his peers.
Rubén returns to live with his parents in the quiet town where he was born, after having studied film in Santiago. Accustomed to the city, he only thinks about returning. However, thanks to Romina he begins to fall in love with the place again.
Olga is Patricia's mother and Alejandro's grandmother. Her grandson invites her to fulfill a dream that she has postponed all her life: to be a radio announcer. However, the background of this attempt is that the relationship between Olga and Patricia improves on a day-to-day basis.
An early film by Marilú Mallet (as Maria Luisa Mallet) created for the Education Ministry's Department of Culture under Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government. The film combines images with intertitles that present the disparity in land distribution, economic opportunity, and civil rights between the indigenous Mapuche people and Chilean Whites/Mestizos. - KG
Josefina lives trapped in a relationship, hiding her true feelings from her husband. However, an afternoon, in the company of a couple of strangers, the anger inside her will come to light in the least thoughtful way.
A four-episode miniseries that teaches children the basic principles of oral hygiene and revisits important moments in the history of Dentistry in Chile through the iconic character from the popular children’s show “31 minutos”.
During their first flight between the Atacama Desert and the Pacific Ocean, thousands of ringed storm petrels have fallen victim to light pollution caused by the city and industry. Biologist Jorge Páez is dedicated to the rescue and conservation of this species in the city of Antofagasta. He will face the greatest mystery surrounding this species: despite the hundreds of specimens that fall in the city each year, nobody knows for certain the nesting sites of the species, lost in the vastness of the desert.
Documentary on Chilean activist Juan Pablo Jiménez, misteriously killed in 2013.
Danilo lives with his mother in Santiago. He has a natural talent for football and dreams to play on the professional team one day.
109 years after the sinking of the cruise ship Dresden, a historic and cultural milestone is being sought in Juan Fernández. For the first time, a freediver will attempt to reach this natural monument, located about 70 meters below the sea, with different variations. This is national record holder Daniel Arias, who will undertake the mission devised by the Marenostrum Expediciones team and the Islas de Nazca Foundation, which seek to promote this sport in the waters off Juan Fernández, a place with ideal conditions for its development, among other things.
Short film that narrates in an educational way the processes of developing wicker and clay crafts. The film is based on the experience of a character who tells a story to his nephews. Work carried out as part of the documentary series "Andanzas de un Chileno".
An actress is preparing a puppet adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic “The Seagull.” During the rehearsal prior to the premiere, Chaika – the puppet that stars in her show – disappears from the stage, forcing her to delve into the depths of the theater and herself to find her.
The list of fantastic, mythical animals compiled by Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 18th century work Systema Naturae could well be the seed of Niles Atallah’s Animalia Paradoxa – an eccentric tale set in a post-apocalyptic world that follows a strange creature struggling to survive. Dressed in rags and a gas mask, moving like an alien dancer, Animalia roams through an abandoned building – crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic, waste. She laboriously carries and fills up an array of empty bottles to enjoy a modest bath. The camera eye lingers on her with compassion and explores the architectures of trash at an agonising pace. We know in our hearts that Animalia is a human-amphibian longing for the sea…
Five ways to capture a sunset. Five ways to make the eye flutter and fly. Practical exercise on a central idea: how to generate a montage without cutting the material or how to cut with the movement of the camera. Flicker Film. Silent. Color. Digital. Recorded with a cellphone.
Tired of his bad decisions, a talented young man decides to make a change in his life to continue his promising musical career with his producer.
Detailed record of the celebration of the day of the Virgin of Andacollo, a feast that takes place between December 23 and 27 in the city of Andacollo, located in the Coquimbo Region, Chile. The arrival of the pilgrims, the way to the temple, and the beginning of the procession of the Virgin through the town, along with the dances of the numerous brotherhoods that gather. Then, the penitences for completed errands, other activities around the festivity and, finally, the departure of the pilgrims.
When there is no body, the voice becomes light to continue burning in existence. Sometimes a light that illuminates, other times a dark light that moistens the stone and the memory. By decoupage, those voices can move through time again. Photographed in the General (1821) and Catholic (1883) cemeteries of Santiago, Chile. Flicker Film. 35mm B & W Still Photography. Silent.
One-shot sci-fi following Kristian, forced by the government to scan his memories, trying keep a secret that threatens everything he has left.
A visual and auditory letter about Palestinian identity and family memory, narrated in Arabic.
Documentary film about soccer and the passion it unleashes in a country qualifying for a world cup. During eight years of following the Chilean national team, the features and nuances that make up our society are reflected in both defeat and victory, trying to answer what mystery this sport has that makes it the most popular in the world.
An officialist film produced by Chile Films in late 1965, following the submission to Congress of the agrarian reform bill by President Eduardo Frei Montalva’s government.
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.
In 1989 Brazil, during a World Cup qualifier between Chile and Brazil, Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas stages an injury during the match at the Maracanã Stadium.
1972. During the government of Salvador Allende 34 artists made works that were included in the construction of the UNCTAD III building, today GAM. After the 1973 coup, few works survived looting and destruction. 40 years later, Joaquín Maruenda, son of the late sculptor Félix Maruenda, finds a record that leads him to investigate the events of the sculpture "Chimeneas" and its possible restoration. Joaquín, artists and workers involved with the construction of the building, will try to answer the question Why did they destroy the art?
More than a tribute, it is a celebration of the life, talent, and legacy of a man who turned humor into an art form and transformed the way Chileans see themselves.
Differences in language between Chile and Spain.
Documentary that reviews Salvador Allende's last speech through various voices of today to think about the present and the future.
The Patagonia without Dams Horseback Ride that took place in late November 2007 in the Aysen Region. Martin Keoken traveled for nine days with more than a hundred riders, covering the 320 kilometers that separate Cochrane from Coyhaique. The production shows unprecedented events of the feat organized by the region's inhabitants to express their rejection of the multiple dam projects projected in Aysen and Patagonia in general, referring to the fact that ultimately these initiatives are driven and decided by economic interests.
A visual essay inspired by Isaac Asimov's extraordinary story The Last Question, about creativity in the age of artificial intelligence.
Filmed over the course of 10 days in a temperate rainforest in the Chilean Patagonian fjords, this documentary reflects on connections, encounters, and how fungi fuel dreams.
In the year 1985, the artist’s mother, Carmen Hales, was kidnapped by the DICOMCAR (Dirección de Comunicaciones de Carabineros, the Chilean police force’s Direction of Communications), one of the military dictatorship’s organisms for oppression. In spite of having a hood pulled over her face, she was able to recognize the route taken with her kidnappers through a specific counting system. This orientation and memory exercise is the starting point for reflecting on the differences that exist between hyper-connected times, such as ours, and a bipolar and linear past, exploring different ways of moving through and relating to space.
Mateo, a competitive young swimmer, sees his position in the swimming club team threatened by a new member. This will lead him to an internal conflict where he will do something that he thought he was incapable of.