Discoveries from Chile World Cinema

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Faith No More live at Monsters Of Rock Chile 1995

Inuksuk is a fearful little boy, trapped in a cold and snowy world that overwhelms him. However, with the help of a magical being, he will face his greatest fear: moving forward alone, saying goodbye to his old life and his loved one.

Under Observation is a visual essay built from recordings captured by computer webcams in retail stores. As fragments of everyday passersby accumulate, a digital wall of surveillance emerges—silent, persistent, and strangely familiar. The work invites us to reflect on visibility, routine, and the subtle architectures of control within contemporary spaces.

A poetic and nostalgic journey through dreams, where memories, real or imagined, intertwine with the desire to relive what was, what never happened, and what the soul refuses to forget.

What do you tell your dead parents? Combining family archives and glimpses of today, the filmmaker weaves together fifty years of his life and the socio-political history of Chile. The montage wanders through the ages, between light and shadow, without ever leaving the joy.

In a lively neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, a lonely seventeen-year-old girl lives with her controlling mother, who knows that Isidora is secretly dating a girl but never speaks about it. During the hot summer days, although she never voices her discomfort, Isidora's mother still restrains the girls' timid attempts to see each other in private. Amid the streets of their neighborhood, Isidora decides not to oppose her mother, to seek refuge in her, and give up her first love.

This multichannel video explores the history of extractivism that affects an area in the extreme north of Chile. Today this sector, partly marked by helplessness and violence, continues to suffer the consequences of pollution, despite people’s struggles for environmental justice.

John Vasquez was Chile's most famous cat thanks to his character "El Gato Juan," but after two decades of success, the showbiz left him alone, and he was forced to earn a living in regular jobs, where he learned to navigate a tough world.

After her passing in New York in 1957, Gabriela Mistral’s remains arrived in Chile on January 18 and lay in state for 39 hours at the University of Chile. The film includes images from her life. The funeral ceremony was led by Cardinal José María Caro at the Metropolitan Cathedral, followed by a burial at the General Cemetery, after being honored by 200,000 people.

Report on the Santiago Zoo, located on San Cristóbal Hill. It is presented as a modern park, inaugurated in 1925. The focus then shifts to the zoo’s facilities and its main attractions, including the polar bear, seals, monkeys, and the beloved elephant Fresia.

An experimental short film about fleeting moments that capture the everyday in different forms and emotions. A sensory exploration of ordinary time. 35mm. Silent.

The documentary is an adaptation of the Chilean television series OVNI (1998-2000), broadcast by TVN. This documentary specifically investigated reported cases of extraterrestrial phenomena in the Andes area.

Documentary about the finding of hundres of negative film from the football World Cup 1962, which belonged to Juan Luco Valenzuela.

In the midst of the pandemic, Valeria, a lonely elderly woman from Ovalle, fearful of the chaos outside, locks herself in her home. As she begins to lose her grip on reality, a man takes advantage of her vulnerability. During the protagonist's dreams, a little girl appears, searching for objects in her home. As irrationality takes over her life, the narrative transforms into a game between reality and fiction, leading her to face her fears.

In a small mining town, the local tycoon tells stories of a gold mine that could turn the whole town into a wealthy estate. Many locals volunteer, including Jose, an 18-year-old raising himself and his younger sister, Mercedes. The miners go down but succumb to an evil force deep within the mine, disappearing from the face of the Earth. The town quickly gives up hope, but Mercedes takes it upon herself to find her brother and the missing gold, no matter the costs. She'll have to take on the tycoon and perhaps even the Devil himself, but she will find out what happened deep down in The Devil's Vein.

Thomas, a green chromaticist, arrives at the Aculeo lagoon, where the movie in which he is acting will be filmed. As the days go by, and after trying to act out the scenes in the script alone, he discovers that the film is not going to be made.

Quilinejo, a marsupial without firewood, finds a cinnamon tree sprouting in the garbage dump where he lives. This transports him to a magical forest, where he learns to care for his environment. Upon returning, he faces a difficult decision.

Niño Divino is a short-documentary about the Chilean writer and psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo. This story, narrated by Naranjo himself, explores the key moments that shaped his quest and defined his vision and philosophy of life.

A young man reflects on the passage of time and family ties with his father and grandfather by performing rituals that show affection.

An eight-year-old boy feels it is his duty to look after his younger sister at all times.

The first original trap series in Chile. Salvatore, an ordinary young man who sets aside his dreams of becoming a footballer to rise in the criminal underworld, embarks on a one-way journey that could even cost him his life.

A trio of mismatched individuals awaits to initiate a robbery, for which none is even remotely qualified. In the moment's frenzy, the loot becomes irrelevant, discovering that what they seek is much more important.

Observational documentary about the student protests that took place at the Universidad Austral de Chile during 2024, in the context of the implementation of the "Recovery Plan", which caused a wave of layoffs of professors and staff, increasing the educational crisis of the institution.

After the coup d'état in Chile in 1973, three young supporters of the political project of the ousted president Salvador Allende are taken prisoner and brutally tortured by Pinochet's military government. In the Dawson Island concentration camp, a remote location in Chilean Patagonia, they began composing the cantata Nuestra Madre Grande. The composition of this musical piece accompanied them throughout their imprisonment until they were finally released from prison and went into exile in 1976.

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La Serena is Chile's colonial capital. Its churches and statues stand majestically over the crushed Diaguita identity, but this identity lives on and emerges in the 2019 uprising, as well as in the old images of the city (when we take a stroll around it).

One night, Pedro reluctantly takes his grandmother to an MRI scan. In the middle of the appointment, the undead begin to attack, forcing him to make a difficult decision.

Only two of the nine Parra Sandoval brothers are still alive: the eldest and the youngest. Óscar Parra was born in 1930 in Chillán, and developed his artistic life far from the academic classrooms of Nicanor, the European stages of Violeta or the bohemian stages of Roberto. His thing was the circus, where he gained his prestige under the nicknames Tony Canarito and Tata Picarón.

In a little more than 2 minutes we see how an old woman goes from being present to being lost inside herself, due to her senile dementia.

Friendship is a mysterious island at the Archipiélago de las Guitecas (Chile) which does not exist on the map. People from the south know the island by rumors that link Friendship to miraculous healings and UFO phenomena. Toto Island is part of the same archipelago to which Shingo traveled with an improvised manual for basic communication, containing ready made phrases in Spanish regarding the purpose of his trip. The manual, an old radio and his video camera would be the only means to establish contacts and collect information on the Friendship enigma.

Detailed film about Santa Lucía Hill, from the streets that surround it, to the different spaces that appear as you climb to its summit.

Work that illustrates the life of the Chuquicamata miners, criticizing their mechanical and repetitive routine that reduces them to just another cog in the productive gear. Armed with a script that works a mixture of documentary and fiction that introduces us to the current of thoughts of Juan Pérez, a worker who questions the real meaning of work and human existence.

Can you imagine being between life and death? This is what young students go through after being ambushed by a Mexican gang.

The voices and rhythms of the Chilean agrarian revolution stir the earth, stirring up sediment and excavating the geomorphological layers of history. A film made from the expropriation of industrial film landscapes in 35mm, manually reduced to 8mm, to raw material, utopian abstraction.

This is Ramon, he has been living in the street since he was born, his life has been very difficult since then...

Awarded Best Documentary Feature at the CIFA Festival, Concepcion Independent Film Award, Chile. "La Cuenca" tells us in all its complexity the contamination of the waters of Mallolafken or Villarica lake and the serious damage to the Trankura basin through the voice of environmental groups, Mapuche communities and inhabitants of the lake area of our region who are mobilizing for its protection.

Documentary about the recording of the debut album of the band Estoy Bien, an intimate record of the recording process and arrangement of the acclaimed album “Apoyo Emocional”.

A heart falls from the sky into Alexis' hands. This pushes her to start a journey through different stations of a surreal journey, which will reveal the state of alienation, self-destruction and dehumanization in which we live. In this journey Alexis will be invited to overcome internal barriers and lose her heart to find her own dance.

Marco, an unmotivated costume designer, decides one night to go out to hunt for dreams and find his inspiration again. Bodies and longings will cross his path.

Documentary about Santos Busto and Concepción Berasaluce, Spanish refugees who arrived in Chile because of the civil war, fifty years after their arrival.