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Manuela (14) and Toña (15) are caught in their school bathroom giving each other a hickey. After being suspended for the day, both embark on a journey through desire, guilt, and goodbyes in the city's outskirts.
Film inspired by the life and the work of Chilean poet Gonzalo Santelices.
A young Mapuche flees for his life after a battle against the Huincas. Lost in unfamiliar lands, he comes across a Nahuel (Jaguar).
Miguel's routine work in the family laundry will be altered in unexpected ways with the arrival of a client who, in the intimacy of the back room, will test more than just his expertise with delicate garments.
A take on the Valparaíso's graffiti scene through the eyes of "Quirón", a local artist.
A Chilean family of German descendants must confront a painful episode dating back to World War II. Silence gives in when one of its members moves to Berlin and begins to research the disappearance of his grandfather’s twin brother, who was a pilot in the German Army. Back and forth, between Chile and Germany, the director turns into his own history to reflect on how his family’s memory has been shaped, and how past behaviors of the Nazi times have echoes in present generations in Chile.
A brute worker in a furniture factory sees his monotonous work interrupted when a pair of lustful beasts appear who seduce and hypnotize him, taking him on a journey through his darkest fantasies and filling him with pleasure.
The writtings of a relegate to the Patagonian archipelago during the chilean military dictatorship are found 35 years later. The notebook takes us into his encounters with the inhabitants of the Guaitecas Islands and their ways of life deeply linked to the sea.
Power in the Desert traces the ripple effects of the lithium boom across three distinct regions- Argentina’s Andean highlands, Chile’s Atacama Desert, and California’s Imperial Valley- where local communities find themselves on the frontlines of the clean energy future.
A young man enters an unfamiliar world he has inherited.
An experimental short film by Ben Bravo
In 1895, during the genocide of the Selk'nam people, 165 Indigenous people were captured in Chilean Patagonia and their children given to colonists as servants. A century later, a young Selk'nam woman, driven by a painful family history, returns to her territory to prove that they are not extinct.
Carlos Caro is a performer with over 40 years in show business, widely recognized by audiences and peers alike as the ultimate tribute to Zalo Reyes and one of the greatest in the game. But the act doesn't end when the curtain falls; in his daily life, Carlos never fully steps out of character.
Two university friends walk through a high and inhospitable hill in the middle of the city as they confront the idea of mortality following the sudden death of a university mate. Between dusk and dawn, the silences become increasingly deafening, and solitude in company slowly consumes them
In the southernmost region of Chile, a handful of villagers survive another winter, together with their dogs and cattle, in the midst of a nature as cruel as it is overwhelming.
Approximately 500 years ago, the young Pikunche woman Pelompén lived in the vicinity of La Campana hill. Strange dreams and a deep connection to the mountain drew her to an inevitable fate, the echoes of which resonate to this day.
A girl encounters a common bird that awakens a strange obsession within her, distorting her reality until she becomes a horrifying creature. Her investigation leads her to uncover a vengeful myth, pushing her toward an irreversible revelation.
When a massive earthquake hits Chile, oceanographer Camila Zúñiga must race against time to warn of an impending tsunami — but institutional hierarchy and ingrained sexism threaten to silence her before it’s too late.
What began as a recording of comedian Natalia Valdebenito's last FEA show, in the hands of Valentina Saraos, ends up being a mini-documentary about the comedian's intimacy and vulnerability in the creative process of a work that is much more than just another comedy show. An intimate and personal story that lays bare the soul of a comedian we think we know, but whom you have surely never seen from this perspective before. The perfect excuse to talk about mental health, tragedy, time, and comedy.
The Chilean artist and filmmaker Martín Baus assembles a political object that can be found below and to the left, in the same place where Latin America is located (if we place Europe in the centre of the map). Guerrilla radio broadcasts, voices from Godard’s first film or photographs of the Ecuadorian tropical forest compose his resistant found footage, a cocktail of old sounds and slogans that reverberates in contemporary times.
Who are you? Where do you come from? What are your concerns?
Compilation of images of the small everyday things that inhabit the city, those situations that are constantly lost sight of if you don't pay attention.
Short film of a general landscape about the saturation of the city. 35mm.
A group of teenagers gather one night and begin telling legends about witches from different countries, but along the way, something unexpected happens that will change their lives forever.
Benja is a high school inspector and is determined to expel the protestor Iván, a friend of his daughter Karina, who dies during a protest. Benja discovers that he never really knew her and tries to rectify the situation through the rebellious Iván
Contemplative video art, which explores different ruined architectures and sculptures of the city of Talca through a German voice-over that narrates as a humanized God, frustrated about creating the earth and things that inhabit it, all to the rhythm of experimental sounds.
Rosa, a rebellious girl afraid of being poor, is forced by her mother to marry the mayor to maintain her social status. The girl refuses; then, deceiving everyone, she agrees. The gardener offers to help her and elope to be her husband. Rosa does not accept him but escapes with him right before the wedding. Her mother, to avoid public ridicule, says that her daughter has been taken by God and that she is an anointed one.
On his sixtieth birthday, Nicolás Crismas, better known as "Santa Claus", begins to question his happiness and the purpose of his life. This introspection, right in the middle of Christmas, creates tension with his wife, Noelia, and leads him to make impulsive decisions that plunge him into deep reflection about his path and future, putting his way of life as he knows it at risk.
"Bremen" is a very free adaptation of the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians" by the Brothers Grimm, produced and realized by and with the Chilean rock band Ases Falsos. When he learns that he is to be slaughtered, a donkey escapes his owners and runs away. Chance brings him together with a dog, a cat and a rooster and so they form a team of four outcasts who are united by their common misery. Together they go in search of Bremen, a paradisiacal place where they want to establish themselves as a music band. But fate forces them to face the most diverse and eccentric threats again and again and death does not stop pursuing them.
A deep story about the routine in Inca de Oro, a sunken town in northern Chile, in which Carmen Castillo delves into the immobile memory of men and women clinging to the solitude of gold. The documentary shows the life of the pirquineros and their families.
A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.
This award-winning film presents a dramatic slice of the daily life of a young Chilean couple of popular origins, who, harassed by unemployment, lack of communication and poverty, struggle to give meaning to their lives, stay united as a family and get ahead in shattered and threatening worlds.
Through family photographs and memories, a woman moves into her past, while rocking a baby in a room where long white curtains blow eerily in from the windows.
"Cine Club UACh" celebrates 60 years with an animated short film that rescues its history. Always located on the Isla Teja Campus of the Universidad Austral de Chile (Austral University of Chile), the Cine Club UACh celebrates 60 years of history, a trajectory marked by an indisputable ability to adapt to historical, political, generational and reproduction format changes, which currently consolidates it as the oldest Cinema Club in continuous operation in the country.
An unjust arrest on suspicion motivated artist Bernardo Oyarzún to portray himself as a "criminal", vindicating his indigenous appearance in the face of the racism of Chilean society. His nephew Daniel Díaz, apprentice and heir to the same skin, guides us through an intimate reflection on his uncle's career, narrating in the Mapuche language the reunion with his ancestors.
Joaquin is a 21 year old man going through an identity crisis who returns to live in the countryside with his mother, Veronica. His wants to find, in the place where he grew up, what he has lost along the way. However, finding the symbols of his childhood again will end up pushing him beyond what he was prepared to face.
Naranja and Javier walk to the subway, they are strangers to each other.
Inspired by the poetic interventions made by Nicanor Parra, Enrique Lihn and Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1952, Enrique Lihn and Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1952, Quebrantahuesos is a collage between a collage between Chilean films from the militant agit-prop imaginary and the filmic record of the walls after the October revolt of 2019. of 2019. The result is a plastic encounter between the political slogans of the past and the present. political slogans of the past and the present.
In present-day downtown Santiago, in a shopping mall seemingly frozen in time, 55-year-old hairdresser Marta María faces an empty nest after her only daughter departs for a year in France. To cope with the loneliness, she immerses herself in her work, finding solace and connection by living vicariously through her clients’ stories.
An historical research on radicalization of Chilean poetry that took place after the coup d'etat in 1973.
Through the memories of former scouts, the short film explores the mystical traditions that shaped their experiences, from the magic that captivated them in childhood to the tensions and questions that arose over time. A reflective look at the relationship between customs, identity, and generational change.
Elizabeth Meza Calfunao, a Mapuche teacher, introduces us to 8 teaching-learning strategies for connecting human beings with nature. Through a dialogue in the territory of Loncoche, Wallmapu, we gain an in-depth understanding of how the Mapuche people relate to their environment, especially to water.
Sarmiento made her directorial debut with the documentary with this short about a group of Chilean women dedicated to striptease.
Rafael Hastings was invited to participate in the Painted Bodies Experimental Workshop in Santiago, Chile, where painters from across Latin America were invited to replace painting on inert canvases with interventions on living bodies, almost as if they were canvases. In Hastings' case, he transformed his intervention into an original performance recorded on video.
For Varinia Canto Vila (Brussels)
In Chile, the Cochamó Valley and the surrounding property, Fundo Puchegüín, is one of the most pristine and biodiverse areas left in the world. And today, it is for sale. This 133,000-hectare piece of land connects four national parks and protected areas. Purchasing it would create an uninterrupted corridor of 1.8 million hectares of wilderness in Chile and Argentina.
Fiodor is an insecure young gay man who agrees to hookup through an app with Simón. When the moment arrives, Fiodor’s discomfort and fears manifest as letters emerging from his body. Together with Simón, they will try to arrange the letters to make sense of the situation.