Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage)
Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage)
"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, ...
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El mal trato
El mal trato
Ramiro is a teacher from the south of Chile that does not expect much of life. His relationship with his wife Irma has been out of a passion for years. Unexpectedly Irma decides to ...
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Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací)
Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací)
Agüero is able to look at the scene in all it's complexity around architectonical brutality that Santiago de Chile underwent around the year 2000.
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The Right to Live in Peace
The Right to Live in Peace
A moving portrait of Chilean singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara (1932-73) that chronicles the life of the talented artist who was imprisoned, tortured and ...
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Sweet Country
Sweet Country
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
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Presencia lejana
Presencia lejana
A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.
From Black to Cadmium
From Black to Cadmium
Nicanor, a struggling writer, is desperately looking for an artist to illustrate the cover of his book. However, the artist's conditions will reveal a dark and disturbing journey ...
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The Girl and The Tsunami
The Girl and The Tsunami
February 2010. On a remote island in the Pacific Ocean called Juan Fernández, everyone slept in town. But a 12-year-old girl felt a tremor and warned of imminent danger.
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Gas Escape
Gas Escape
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 ...
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Eyewar
Eyewar
What threads of history bind Manhattan's Ground Zero to those of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or connect sight to truth, games to war, or the silkworm to the drone? What does the United ...
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German Souls
German Souls
Rüdiger was a child, Aki two months old and Kurt, the deputy of the pedophile leader of the sect. In 1961 they came to Chile together with 500 other German sect members and for over 40 ...
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Tony Manero
Tony Manero
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
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City of Photographers
City of Photographers
A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes ...
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First on the Moon
First on the Moon
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a ...
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Machuca
Machuca
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program ...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
The Motorcycle Diaries
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by ...
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My Grandmother’s Mother Told My Grandmother
My Grandmother’s Mother Told My Grandmother
Gathered by a theater company, a small town in Chile called Villa Alegre, looks deep into its origins and myths to tell their own history through a play.
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Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
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Niños del paraíso
Niños del paraíso
In the Juan Fernández Archipelago, 700 kilometers from the central coast of Chile, is Robinson Crusoe Island. There, a group of children who are in their last year of primary school ...