Plants 2016
For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.
For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.
Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails. Her body suffers the metamorphosis of aging, and she must undergo cataract surgery.
After 17 years working as a street prostitute in New York City, undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa reunites with former college classmate Nicole, the director of this film. Through their creative bond, Monalisa re-flourishes as a transgender performer and writer, in the search for identity and legalization.
Yermén is a transsexual woman in her mid-thirties that works as a tarot reader, and lives in the emblematic low-income neighbourhood of La Victoria. Looking for a sex reassignment, she decides to try for a plastic surgery TV show, where she will meet an enigmatic immigrant who wants to get an operation to look like Naomi Campbell.
While a gamer uploads a testimonial video to denounce the harassment she suffers in a video game, a stranger enters her home and hacks her computer, blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.
While working in a circus in Paris, Victor receives a call from Chile: his mother Gloria is sick and has a few months to live. Victor decides to return to Chile to accompany her and take care of her. Seeing his mother struggling to extend his life, he decides to reconstruct their memories and experiences together, recording everything in a movie while the imminence of death is around them.
In the context of Chilean education, for teenagers are forced to decide their future at an early age. Over the course of a year, we'll see how they can just have fun, while they await for the arrival to an unwanted destination.
In Costa Rica, the family of Melba (65) and Víctor (70) has sheltered over 130 children in the last 40 years. Today, some of them seek paths to adulthood while a new child is integrated into this great family with the adventures and difficulties of a home that continues to multiply despite the parents’ advanced age.
Samanta, a girl from the streets, lives with Profeto, a Peruvian immigrant who adopted her as his own daughter. One night, Profeto tells Samanta that his wife and daughter have arrived to Chile to live with him. Their presence threatens Samanta’s permanence so she starts to despair and act self-destructively, trying to call Profeto’s attention and not lose her recently found home.
The autopsy report of a leg found floating on the Seine, the voice mail of a missing girl and the appearance of a ghost in her home.
Albertina sells flowers in the cemetery of San Miguel de Azapa (Chile), a small town built on indigenous tombs. For half a century, she has commanded traditions that seek to achieve prosperity for the living by keeping her relationship with the dead on good terms. The death of this matriarch triggers a series of rites that her family and friends carefully observe. Thus the community seeks to ensure a good dispatch of the soul of their “grandmother” and preserve the traditions that she promoted.
A self-aware data cloud searches for its planetary body from the ocean to the desert at the end of the world. Along the way, the cloud encounters activists, scientists and indigenous women fighting against its presence, discovering the environmental damage caused by its existence while asking: how can technology be developed without sacrificing ecologies and communities?