Chimera

Chimera 2024

1

A non-binary folk watches the handover of the first non-binary ID in the history of Chile. As they try to do the paperwork, they will face the bureaucracy of the legal proceeding.

2024

La Mecha

La Mecha 2022

1

In a fishing village contaminated by a thermoelectric power plant, Mecha (33) is the grieving soul of an environmental activist who died under suspicious circumstances. The day after his death, she tries to reconcile with her son Juan (16) and to make him take charge of her memory.

2022

Mimbre y Greda

Mimbre y Greda 1966

1

Short film that narrates in an educational way the processes of developing wicker and clay crafts. The film is based on the experience of a character who tells a story to his nephews. Work carried out as part of the documentary series "Andanzas de un Chileno".

1966

Below

Below 2007

5.40

Jaime, who’s been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house on the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse’s darkness.

2007

Paradigm of a Filicide

Paradigm of a Filicide 1970

1

Gabriel Borquéz, an adult man who lives alone in an isolated house, where he hides after shooting his little son in the woods. Guilt twists his reality, causing him to hallucinate and messing up events. His salvation is to leave his consciousness, represented as a hallway in his home. He fights against self-destructive situations that damage his physical body, but ultimately succumbs at the hands of a creation of his mind, a personification of death and himself.

1970

A Desired Day

A Desired Day 2024

1

Lucía (16) reunites with her sister Ema (17) after years apart. A journey through their rural birthplace brings present and past together, leading them to a difficult truth.

2024

St John: The Longest Night

St John: The Longest Night 2012

5.50

It's June 24 and the people of Lawan, a Mapuche community in southern Chile, are planning a big celebration for Saint John's Eve. Despite this, Cheo a restless and misfit kid, is not happy because this means the return of his father to the community. He is a violent man who, when he drinks too much, vent his anger with his family, unleashing in Cheo strong desires for revenge.

2012

The Feast

The Feast 2023

10.00

In a dystopian world, a creature attends a banquet organized by a magical refrigerator. Thus begins his unbridled descent into a spiral of consumption. Corrupted and turned into a beast, he faces a macabre end.

2023

The Phantom Touch

The Phantom Touch 2022

1

A user enters the virtual reality platform "VRChat", a space that allows socialization through avatars. With a bird avatar, he travels through diverse and beautiful landscapes, from a Buddhist temple in the mountains to the ruins of a post-apocalyptic hotel. In each world, he meets a different user with whom he will have quiet conversations, gradually revealing some of the conflicts that younger generations go through, such as uncertainty about the future and doubts about the purpose of their lives.

2022

Salvador

Salvador 2019

5.00

José Luis (19) works at a gas station. There he meets Amaro (48), a wealthy client with whom he initiates a sexual and emotional relationship. José Luis falls in love with him and receives his financial support, not knowing that he maintains this type of relationship with other boys like him

2019

25 de octubre

25 de octubre 2020

1

In the middle of the social crisis and repression in their country –Chile–, Leonor and Manuel have an ongoing relationship that has hit rock bottom. Due to the uprising, a curfew has been imposed, and Nico spends the night with the couple, twisting things up. The next morning, engulfed in fear of what’s happening outside and confused about their own relationship, Leonor and Manuel learn how to live and take care of each other in the midst of these unknown and frightful times.

2020

The Hairdressers

The Hairdressers 2007

1

Ana Luisa is single and has been getting up early to open the hairdresser's shop in her living room for 30 years. Tato is married, and has been getting up even earlier to go to the Brasil neighborhood and attend Ana Luisa's hairdressing salon for 40 years. Hairstyles and cuts, it is the only thing left to offer. The hairdresser's is her refuge in the middle of a neighborhood that has become too young for their eyes. Among those who visit them is Aurora, a goddaughter who offers Ana Luisa an opportunity to try to revive the business. The plan is simple: she makes some flyers to be handed out in the square. Ana Luisa doesn't see the point of trying something like this, Tato believes that nothing is lost. They agree on one thing: handing them out will mean accepting anyone who wants to go for a cut, even the young people who they say mistreat the neighborhood.

2007

One Year After According My Grandpa

One Year After According My Grandpa 1970

1

Jorge, a 75-year-old retiree, spends his days watching television on the bed in which his wife died. His family tries to convince him to get the bed out of there, without receiving an answer from Jorge. Finally Jorge will embrace the most vulnerable side of him by deciding that they can take the bed.

1970

Revival

Revival 2019

6.00

Chile, 2038. Revival is the technology of fashion. A virtual reality device that allows people to relive moments of their past, as if they were living it again. Émile, a young Haitian who is collecting money to bring his mother from Haiti, discovers that someone from his job in a vineyard is interfering with his memories in his revival. Searching for answers, Émile discovers the disturbing truth that was hidden.

2019

(Sol)ar Memories

(Sol)ar Memories 2024

10.00

To process grief, a young adult revisits fragments of their late grandmother’s life to restore the version of their own inner child when she still remembered them.

2024

A puerta cerrada

A puerta cerrada 2022

1

Francisco (21) discovers that his brother Tomás (26) has been accused of sexual abuse through social networks. As Tomás's birthday approaches, Francisco will have to make a decision regarding the accusation.

2022

Samanta

Samanta 2014

1

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.

2014