Discoveries from Chile World Cinema

There's a new hero in town.

After spending the night with Jane, Juan discovers a new phase in his obsession with Hong Kong.

It traces the work of Vicente Ruiz and his creative process, the emotional impulses behind his work and the constant search for change. With archival footage and testimonies, the documentary explores the social role of art through one of the leading figures of Chilean counterculture in the 1980s.

A documentary that chronicles a plan to build five large hydroelectric dams on two of the world's purest free-flowing rivers in Patagonia, Chile.

Ariel gets involved in a teenager's civil arrest, who is accused of stealing a phone. A mob surrounds the young man and some curse and beat him, some defend him. The police isn't showing up. Ariel has to decide what side he is on.

Catalina is an influencer that stopped believing in Santa Claus and decides to ruin her siblings Christmas.

Propagandistic documentary aiming to demonstrate how vigorous and prosperous the provinces of Tacna and Arica were at that time, despite being in dispute, but under predominantly Chilean influence, investment, and administration.

NINO (10) is not feeling well. The fever rises as his senses are enhanced, and his eyes become dry. The thermometer takes five minutes to give its verdict, but they seem endless. Suddenly, as if swallowed by the sheets, Nino is lost. He must now face wars and volcanoes to return to his mother’s arms. It’s just a little fever…

Pancho Veloso, an old writer of celebrity articles, returns to his hometown of Chilean Patagonia after more than 40 years of having fled. When trying to write "salable" stories about that area so called "the end of the world", he will face his past and leave his imposture.

An old freight and passenger train supposedly cancelled, is the reason for a story that combines fiction and documentary. The fiction tells the story of a journalist who must make a report on this "ghost" train; the documentary makes us see the real face of this ghost in the middle of the most arid desert on the planet.

Margarita's ascending professional career as a cellphone field sales executive is conditioned by her duties as a single mother and caretaker of her own mom, a religious fanatic singer who refuses to speak.

Joel works as a night caregiver in the building where Mari lives, his cousin, an independent woman, recently divorced, with whom he maintains a relationship based purely on sex. On Christmas' Eve, Joel is fired from his job. He must abandon the one that had become his refuge, to return to the small house where his mother and grandmother live, an old woman who suffers from Alzheimer's. Overcrowding and illness make the holidays hellish days.

Claudia finds the diary her mother wrote at 17 after migrating from Peru to Chile. Reading it, she embarks on a journey into the past, reconstructing the story of a woman she thought she knew and, at the same time, reconnecting with her own roots.

Nieves runs a swimming pool with her son Martin. One summer, a biker falls for her. Things between them don’t seem to work out, until a filming crew arrives at the pool while scouting for locations and the director decides to put Natacha and the biker in her film.

The military in the air and the people on the ground. Two dances. A "panorama" of still photos of the Chilean independence day celebrations in the former Cousiño Park, emblem of the Chilean popular party for more than 150 years . Photographed on September 19, 2024, the infamous "day of the glories of the army". Flicker Film. 35mm B & W Still Photography. Silent.

Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unexpected reaction—but then he meets someone else.

A writer, who wants to make a film about today's Chile, departs from the usual forms of filming to grasp the mystery of things. He approaches the desired film, in the middle of a relationship crisis, caused by Marcy, a disturbing woman-child who drags him into a fascinating crazy-love relationship. And because the writer understands that true creation involves detaching himself from any subjection to the practical world and accepting the catastrophic as a form of secular holiness, he performs, in the end, an act of immense generosity.

Rodrigo is a famous Youtuber who spends all day online. He has many cyber followers and an almost perfect life. One day the Internet is banned throughout the country, so Rodrigo will be forced to find a way to reconnect with people without a computer.

A recap of the first edition of Tocata Piolin at Almagro Park, a lovely afternoon of live music.

Thirteen-year-old Bobi lives in a small town in southern Chile. He was born with a strange condition: from the waist down, he has dog legs. His life is turned upside down when he meets Carlos, a man in his fifties who has recently lost his son and suffers from mental health issues.

Tiziano is a little boy almost like the others, who grows up between the demonstrations in Chile, the history of his family and the innocence of his age.

A journey back to the darkest years of the military dictatorship, where Valeria Sarmiento, using for the first time in her career her own voice, reflects on the traces of the political violence of that period and summons the testimony of victims and privileged witnesses, but also the opinion of scientists, memory theorists and researchers of genocides of other times. The result is an intimate account of how these traces have impregnated our life stories, our bodies and also our landscape.

Ariel goes to therapy and talks to his psychologist. In the course of the session he talks about his mother and his ex-boyfriend, whom he last saw due to an argument in which Ariel didn't recognize him as his boyfriend in front of his mother.

The 31 Minutos pilot is the second pilot produced by Aplaplac for the series, this time to be presented to Televisión Nacional de Chile for broadcast. It has a structure and designs more similar to what would be seen in the series itself.

A Chilean stomach and social discomfort.

The contrast of the parallel lives of two women personified in a single actress (Delfina Guzmán). Despite the radical differences between their lives, they are intimately connected to each other. Candelaria is a vagabond in Parque Forestal, crazy but happy. In contrast, in a comfortable and luxurious apartment, lives Laura, who is harassed by the greed of her children and her lover, who will not rest until they strip her of her fortune and expel her from the country.

The star journalist of 31 Minutos, Juan Carlos Bodoque has to lock himself in his house due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Santiago 1984. Carmen, former JJCC, after being tortured by the CNI, works as an undercover agent. Francisco, an agent obsessed with her, infiltrates her in an advertising production company, meets Gastón, creative director. He discovers that he is planning a commercial in the mountains as part of an escape operation for a political prisoner. Carmen manipulates both of them, lying to Francisco and approaching Gastón, in order to join the operation and thus achieve her own escape.

While spending a summer vacation with his cousin Pamela, 14-year-old David becomes completely infatuated with her alluring older boyfriend Javier. As a heatwave intensifies, so do the boy's burgeoning desires.

It's Christmas Eve and in the solitude of his office, Félix reflects on the most traumatic Christmas of his childhood by watching some mini Dv from an old box of childhood memories, thus rethinking relationship with his father.

In the year 1995 the Soviet Union becomes the first nation to send a man to the future, but the mission of Captain Vladimir Ivánovic wouldn't be as successful as they hoped for.

Teresa is a girl from Chilean aristocracy. She lives a double life, at day she dresses very elegant and fancy, while at night she assist to high society meetings at the Crillon Hotel in Santiago, where diplomats and wealthy people meet. However, her family is economically ruined after a bad sale of her father's mines and they have to live at Romero Street, where the working class lives.

After the coup d’état in 1973, employees at the Vicariate for Solidarity began the risky road to save the lives of the prosecuted and find the fate of the detained. With time, they understood there was a politics of extermination in place against the dissidents, and that, in order to decipher its functioning and those directly responsible, they had to turn into a sophisticated intelligence team.

A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.

A stop-motion documentary that describes the artificial mummification (black and red mummies) of the Chinchorro culture, a pre-hispanic society of fishermen and hunter-gatherers who practiced funeral rites with sophisticated techniques for body preservation 7,000 years ago, originating on the Camarones coast of Chile.

A young girl from the town of Chillán (Chile) marries her cousin in 1962. In reverse, the moment and its ghosts emerges from oblivion and returns to it. This is a 8mm family film compiled and re-structured by Gabriel Lizama (AKA Liz Taylor)

Inés and Tavi, two old friends, reconnect after years apart. Despite their opposite personalities and lifestyles, their bond remains unbroken. Inés, a theater enthusiast, strives to return to her studies and break free from a relationship that stifles her and pulls her away from herself. Tavi, on the other hand, ventures down a dangerous path, surrounded by bad influences and driven by drug dealing, slowly pushing everyone around him away.

A pair of friends find a lone bill in the sidewalk, totally oblivious to the events that would unfold.

"Cruzando América de Punta a Punta!" follows the epic journey of Ramilla de Aventura as he embarks on a thrilling expedition crossing the American continent from Barrow, Alaska, to Puerto Toro, Chile. Over the course of 50 days, Ramilla experiences the diverse cultures, landscapes, and people along the way, documenting each step of the adventure. The series captures the essence of slow travel and human connection, showcasing both the challenges and exhilarating moments faced during this remarkable journey.

Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives an unexpected visit from her elder daughter, Tamara, after a long time without seeing her. Her stay at a spiritual community has distanced and completely changed her. While Tamara takes refuge in her mother's home, an investigation is opened into the disappearance of Tamara's newborn son in strange circumstances within the sect to which she belongs. Both the law and Ximena will try to find out what has happened to the missing baby.

Roberto has just been laid off due to his advanced age and diabetes. With his severance pay, he decides to buy a van and learn to drive so that he can take a trip with his wife Hilda to the town of their youth, Taltal, on the Pacific coast of the Chilean desert.

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?

Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.

Light through the stained glass, spiritual architecture, musical light for the eyes. A prayer for times of war. Recorded with a cell phone at the Apostle Saint Matthew Cathedral, in the City of Osorno (Chile)

A cardboard house is built as refuge for the remains of a family's home video archives. Memories of maternal guidance, tenderness, and reunion are brought to life by following a child's early years.

An immigrant lost in Santiago's subway discovers that the city he inhabits conceals a buried secret: Santiago was founded over a cusco, an administrative center of the Tahuantinsuyo Empire. Through his wandering across the city and the testimony of pre-Columbian history researchers, the film reconstructs the Inca presence in the Mapocho Valley and proposes a decolonial reading of Chilean urban territory.

A stolen phone, bad decisions and many acts of clumsiness will force three neighbors from Gran Avenida – an area in the south of Santiago – to face each other.

Alejandro is a young writer who is going through a "writer's block". His girlfriend helps him find a steady income by writing children's stories, but recent news of a serial killer haunts him.

A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.

Teenage forest cat Kona decides to face her fears and search for her missing mother, who was kidnapped by the circus long ago. She is joined on her journey by Colin, an abandoned guard dog pup, and Bernard, a runaway old circus bear, who are also searching for their own families.

A man secludes himself in the forest with his cat. The ghosts of his past begin to torment him, being forced to face his fears and guilts in a try to not be consumed by madness.

The military statue is absent, yet its presence reigns; it seems like an open wound. With each turn, more buds of time bloom. There are multiple rhythms and points of view in a brief, eternal moment. An exercise in the effect of speed and its personal interplay with the viewer. Photos taken at the scene on October 18, 2024, the fifth anniversary of the 2019 Social Uprising. 35mm B&W Still Photography. Silent. Flickering Lights.