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Hated by the internet and broken by the pressure, young football star Julián Lorca tries to find meaning in the sport. But his search for redemption quickly turns into a brutal reality check.

"Taken without a Trace: Women and illegal adoptions in La Araucanía, Chile" is a documentary that explores the tragedy of illegal adoptions in Chile, focusing on the testimonies of women from Temuco. Through an intimate lens and a gender-based perspective, the film reveals the emotional and social impact of these practices that occurred between the 1960s and 1990s, highlighting the pain of mothers who were separated from their children and their ongoing search for truth, justice, and reparation.

Audio and visual art project that explores how the gaze of the other can construct, deform, or crush our identity.

In the city of Santiago, the sun seems to stand still for days at sunset. The powers that be, through television, transform the event into a catastrophe, manipulating the population and pitting neighbor against neighbor. What will happen when night falls?

Chilean comedian Lucas Espinoza presents his first comedy special at the iconic Blondie discotheque.

Cocoliche and Chocolate, two emblematic "Tonys" (a comedic clown central to Chilean circus culture) guide us through an intimate dialogue into the depths of their stage and their memories. As members of "Los Jóvenes del Ayer" a circus organization for seniors, they confront a question as inevitable as it is poetic: How do they imagine their final performance? In this narrative, the preparation of a final act intertwines with the creation of a symbolic altar.

Portrait of two Chilean folk poets, practitioners of the “canto a lo divino.” Afflicted by the drought of their lands and by the fading of tradition, an old shepherd and a laborer—both born as singers—must die singing.

While searching through archives, director Viktor Aguilar Luna came across dozens of VHS tapes containing recordings of his childhood filmed by his paternal grandfather, Victor Hugo Aguilar.

A filmmaker reconstructs the story of a poet interned in a psychiatric hospital from one of her notebooks and tapes found in the trash.

After a violent breakup, a young woman writes a letter inspired by pigeons, birds that connect her to her past and her own feelings.

A journey of more than 2,300 km by bicycle from Arica to Valle Nevado, in search of waves, routes and landscapes that inspire.

After 20 years of traveling through Latin America, a French-Swiss ethnographer disappears from the map. Using travel journals from various ethnographers and non-fiction film archives, the author imagines and constructs a travel diary of the unknown and incognito ethnographer from the 1950s and 1970s, a testimony to the industrial transformation, evangelization, and ethnocide of Latin American communities.

Otrofoco dusts off the scandal of the 1990s, when the so-called Youth Patrol was making waves in Chilean politics. It unveils the story behind the infamous “Piñeragate” (or “Kiotazo”), where a young Sebastián Piñera — joined by his buddies Allamand and Espina — faces an extreme situation that will trigger the downfall of his presidential campaign, as well as that of his ex (friend?) Evelyn.

The first day and the final moment of the vampire Cristina's life in her struggle against the concept of death.

A lonely man is tormented by the care he must provide for his mother. In front of the mirror, he discovers a wound on his stomach, which he chooses to ignore. As the days pass, the wound grows, and so do his mother's needs.

In the Araucanía region, inside a rural school, a young Mapuche boy tells his classmates about his ancestral family lineage. From outside, a group of strangers will interrupt the story of our protagonist.

Featuring the Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf, this is a poetic re-creation of the Mapuche territory that once stretched across southern Chile and Argentina, without borders. It explores Mapuche communities in Neuquén, Argentina, and Chilean Mapuches who have migrated to Neuquén. Elicura's journey through the land of yesteryear recreates the imagery that has shaped his poetic creation.

Unpublished work by Sergio Navaro.

In a moment charged with tension and desire, a detective and a mysterious woman lock eyes in the shadows. What begins as a game of seduction ends with the realization that, in just seconds, everything can turn upside down.

In a bare house on an ordinary afternoon, a nervous woman prepares for a visitor whose calm presence hides an unspoken demand. Through whispered bargains, rigged games and desperate tricks, their encounter unravels into a quiet duel of chance and control. A Quiet Day is a slow-burn chamber piece about fear, power, and the fragile hope that one more gamble might change everything.

Hiroto lives in Japan and will seek to meet the large family he has in Chile, where he will travel for the first time. In the place where his Chilean mother was born, he will experience a cultural shock and will be moved when reuniting with his beloved grandmother.

Berta and Gladys, two lovers of life, share their days with laughter, memories, and complicity. Sitting in their favorite spot, they recall anecdotes while they still can.

A food delivery man, after working late into the night, arrives home, decorates it with birthday decorations, and has a video call with his mother, who sings him a traditional Venezuelan song.

Laura's love life is affected by the Dark Invader, a demonic entity that seems to be obsessed with her.

65-year-old coffee grower Victoria challenges a real estate project that encroaches on her land and disrupts her life. Growing friction with her long-time employee reveals a world in flux. As changes swirl around her, she’s compelled to question the privileges that have long sustained her comfortable way of life.

Agnes and Sofía are two sisters that live in an institute for children, the older one always wanted to meet their mother, for that reason she decide to scape with her sister. During their journay, both face the diferents situations in this new hostile world meanwhile the lack of love of both beginning to disapear.

Inés spends her days searching for rays of sunshine that she keeps in her memory box. One day, a sad memory escapes. She remembers that a long time ago the goat Yago left indelible marks on her body. And now that it is no longer a secret, she can heal.

Locos del Alma is the story of a group of schizophrenic patients from the Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago who work on a play until its premiere. Most of them have been in this hospital for more than twenty years and it is a six-month documentary follow-up of their rehearsals and lives. It is the story of these actors, their way of learning, their games, laughter, reflections and their particular view of the world.

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.