Discoveries from Chile World Cinema

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.

In this presentation of the performance Proceso hacia una película (Process towards a film), Jeannette Muñoz works on fragments of her project Puchuncaví, revealing to us her viewing and editing process live. Using a Moviola (which is also a projector) as a device (that we can see and also hear), Muñoz reveals to us the meticulous work of seeing and weighing up each and every thing filmed. On this occasion, her editing is assisted by a sewing machine.

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.

The human being is born within a certain context, many things germinate on his way and his consciousness opens and closes on countless occasions. Along the way he discovers that the rational path is not the main source of vitality and realizing this he continues his journey until death.

Film set in the seaport, where two men fight for the love of a beautiful young girl.

Upon reuniting with a childhood friend in São Paulo, a man grapples with his feelings and prejudices, questioning the unresolved bond that once united them.

living life through movies is kind of a sad thing ain't it?

Antonio, after a failure at work, returns to his birthplace in Viña del Mar after being completely absent. Upon his return, he moves back with his parents, meets again with old friends and a former love, from whom he will learn to deal with frustration, accept life and shorten the distance that was not only imposed by him leaving home.

For over two decades, I have been filming the neighbourhood where I grew up, a working-class area on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. Once a year, I travel from Zürich to El Cortijo and film the things I cherish and the people I love. Family, friends, neighbours, and animals appear without any hierarchy in this fragmented portrait.

It documents the life of a couple of grandparents in their rural home, showing their connection with nature and their daily tasks. Through simple recordings, the director, their granddaughter, explores the importance of family ties.

Documentary that records the last days of the Chilean group Los Tres. Its record focuses on 3 different dates and two different places: March 17 and 18, 2000, in La Batuta located in Ñuñoa, Santiago and May 19, 2001 at the Teatro Concepción located in Concepción. The documentary includes reflections from the band members on their 14-year career. The DVD includes some of the group's video clips and a Making-Off of the Video Clip "The Response".

In 2019, a nationwide movement forms in Chile to create a new constitution. For three years, the film accompanies indigenous, feminist, militant, legalistic, anarchist and conservative activists. A timely large-scale canvas of democratic protest.

Cristóbal assumes the support of his home and Rosario, his mother, who loses her vision due to illness. Being faced with the adult world and the pain of his mother generates a fatigue in him that undermines the family relationship.

Tata Miguel makes his last life journey in search of his long-lost teenage crush with the help of his 8-year-old granddaughter whom he has just met. Grandpa teaches her on this trip that "an adventure cannot wait."

In his latest stand-up special, Fabrizio Copano brings his signature sharp humor and clever insights to the stage. With a mix of personal anecdotes and astute observations, he explores modern life, cultural quirks, and the absurdities of everyday experiences. Copano's energetic delivery and quick wit make for an unforgettable comedy event that keeps the audience laughing from start to finish.

In 1992 the Universal Exhibition in Seville was held in Spain. Chile participated in this exhibition by displaying in its pavilion an ice floe captured and brought especially by sea from Antarctica. In these true facts is based the fantasy narrated in Dreams of Ice. Filmed between November 1991 and May 1992 on board the ships Galvarino, Aconcagua and Maullín, in a voyage that goes from Antarctica to Spain, in this documentary film in which dreams, myths and facts converge towards a poetic tale turned into a seafaring saga, in the manner of the legends of the seafarers that populate the mythology of the American continent and universal literature.

After stopping contraceptives, Candela (28) is faced with a crisis in her relationship with her boyfriend Ferran (27). This will cause Candela to begin a rethinking of her tastes and her own sexuality, putting her emotional stability at risk.

Three women, Amanda, Ana and Alicia seem like strangers, but their stories intersect at the same twilight. Amid nervous laughter, veiled abuse and the disappearance of a young woman, Subtexto reveals the black humour hidden in the harshness of everyday life.

In a small house, spending his last years is Millapol, my music teacher for many years. After more than a year without seeing each other, we resumed our Sitar classes, delving into his last teachings and his eternal legacy as a Guru.

To process grief, a young adult revisits fragments of their late grandmother’s life to restore the version of their own inner child when she still remembered them.

Gabriel Borquéz, an adult man who lives alone in an isolated house, where he hides after shooting his little son in the woods. Guilt twists his reality, causing him to hallucinate and messing up events. His salvation is to leave his consciousness, represented as a hallway in his home. He fights against self-destructive situations that damage his physical body, but ultimately succumbs at the hands of a creation of his mind, a personification of death and himself.

A survey documentary filmed in the wheat fields of the community of Calquinhue, near the town of Hualqui, in the province of Concepción. The film shows the gestures in the various tasks of the community members engaged in harvesting the wheat, from the harvest to the sale.

What lies at the heart of our galaxy? For twenty years, ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Keck telescopes have observed the centre of the galaxy, looking at the motion of more than a hundred stars and identifying the position of an otherwise invisible object — the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Embark on a Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way and during seven minutes travel faster than light, from the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile right to the centre of our own galaxy, where a black hole is consuming anything that strays into its path. 84 million stars will appear in front of your eyes, each hiding mysteries waiting to be solved. Are there planets around them, perhaps with moons? Do they have water? Could they harbour life?

Today is your birthday, and I’m on a desert island

From its old age, a SIG-510 rifle tells the story of its military service as a weapon used by the Chilean army. It tells of his military training, its frustrated desire to serve his country, and the memories it has of the Coup d'état that occurred in 1973.

The film tells the adventures of a bohemian who, after a joyful bender, dreams delusions of grandeur that reality brings back down to earth.

A Christian rehabilitation center will be the refuge for Daniel after years in prison. Wandering through the streets, he will try to sell cakes in a city he knows little to nothing about. However, his real interest is far from capital.

Through a journey through her memories, Umi reconstructs her parents' memory thanks to the record they kept of their days, discovering the family they tried to build and the dreams that were buried.

Seba is a boy who knows that he could be HIV positive, but he has't take any test yet. He faces the day, the blood test, his boyfriend and the emptiness in a night full of noise. Suddenly, in perspective, the things don't seem so wrong, or anything at all.

Marcia, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first democratic socialist president who was overthrown by the Army in September 1973, seeks to reconstruct the personal and familiar image of her grandfather, buried by his historical person, her exile and the family pain.

Annelie, an anthropologist dedicated to mortuary rites, investigates her grandfather's suicide during the dictatorship. In a mansion that was once a production facility and later a torture center, she joins forces with a journalist and a mathematician to search for a fragment of film that her grandfather hid, which documents a crime.

A documentary comedy that reveals, with humor and great honesty, the unexpected journey of La Patogallina: putting together its first Shakespeare-inspired TV series, while everything seemed chaotic. Amidst parades, bruised egos, broken romances, and endless rehearsals, this documentary shows how a group of artists decided to laugh at the end of the world and turn it into an unforgettable show.

In the midst of a climatic apocalypse, Sol and Alex live in a shelter adapted for their survival. When the system that provides them with oxygen begins to fail, their fears and ghosts become present. Facing the imminent end, they find comfort in one another, accompanying each other on their last day of their lives.

An experimental short film that explores the textures of nature and the gaze of a cat.

A droll yet profound exploration of memory, history, forgetting, and, of course, Raúl Ruiz. After seeing a documentary about Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz while low on sleep, Jorge, a Chilean filmmaker living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, suddenly remembers visiting a statue of Moniz in a park somewhere in Santiago with his father—who also happens to be a neurosurgeon. Jorge goes on a lengthy exploration of the city of his birth and all the way to Patagonia looking for the statue, all the while pondering memories of his dad and the imaginary territories between his homeland and New York.

This documentary, directed and produced by musician and researcher Mario Rojas in 1998, tells the story of the group Los Chileneros, formed by Hernán Núñez Oyarce, Raúl Lizama "El Perico Chilenero," Luis Hernán Araneda "El Baucha," and Eduardo Mesías "El Chico Mesías." It includes commentary from musicologist Rodrigo Torres of the University of Chile, which helps to contextualize the tracks exposed. It introduces us to the origins of a Cueca style presented as a genre analogous to Tango, Peruvian waltz, Flamenco, Jazz, and many other popular urban musical expressions that emerged in the shadow of industrial society during the first half of the 20th century. With its protagonists now deceased, it's a valuable reference record for understanding the work and charisma of protagonists of astonishing urban tales, set amidst Santiago's "fondas", "quintas de recreo", marginalized bars, brothels and slaughterhouses.

Amanda, a young Mapuche Huilliche woman from Chilean Patagonia, fishes with her uncle, but exploitation by multinational salmon companies has made her work difficult. She falls in love with Manuel, who decides to join the fight against intensive salmon farming in Santiago. Amanda must choose between staying or following him.

Miguel is a teenager living with his grandmother and his cousin. He is fascinated by Esteban, the misfit guy of the village. One day, Esteban's body is found by the railway, but Miguel still sees him wandering through the neighborhood.

A look behind the scenes that unites puppets, giant screens and the passion of the 31 Minutes: One Hot Christmas team, who achieve magical things.

After years of estrangement, Francisca is forced to return home for her father's funeral, confronting a fractured family where family tensions come to the surface, leading Francisca to confront her guilt for abandoning her brother.

Cris, a reclusive twenty-something, tries to hide from his aunt and uncle's family New Year's Eve party in a bathroom at the house. Here he will discover Paz, his enigmatic cousin, who invites him to read tarot cards in her peculiar and illuminated oracle, the bathtub.

Complete show of "Lo que Salga" by Edo Caroe made in Movistar Arena. Includes Pre Show, performances by Darinka González and Lucho Miranda

New Love is a non-linear film that consist in succession of sequences showing the world of young people of the late sixties.Deeply focused on the hippie culture in Chile.

A man wakes up in the middle of the night after hearing a loud gunshot. In that moment, an unexpected twist will change his life forever.

A mother and daughter confined at an early age, they face the stalking of his captor, trying to protect and prevent the dreadful cycle is repeated.

Condorito is an lower class anthropomorphic condor, lackadaisical and unambitious, but also kind, loyal, friendly and ingenious.

Andrea, a young teenager goes out at her best friend's party looking for some fun. But the more it advances the night, she ends finding out that she lives in a harmful reality, even more than she expected.

TVN version of the classic of the Chilean theater "La Pérgola de las Flores" In Santiago, during the last years of the 1920s, the circle of the San Francisco pergola confronts the social circle of Laura Larraín when they see the future of the pergola threatened. In the midst of this fight, a peasant woman (huasa), named Carmela, ends up greatly influencing the fate of this place.

A movie showing the life of Max Gutierrez, a Chilean filmmaker.

A boy goes to his friend's funeral procession. When he realizes that his grave does not have flowers like the others, and that he does not have money to buy them, he goes out looking for some in the streets of Santiago.

A documentary that shows the behind the scenes making of of the movie "Yo Sin Ella: versión censurada".