Filmmakers Alfredo García and Paulina Costa were babies when both of their fathers were taken by the forces of Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. Together their fathers were held in a small cell within Villa Grimaldi, one of the most notorious torture centres of that era. During their imprisonment, their fathers forged an unbreakable friendship, but only one of them, Paulina's f...
Andrea, a fictional amalgam created from real psychiatric patients' experiences, grapples with severe memory loss as a result of receiving electroshock therapy. Using distortion, tracking lines and static to evoke her fuzzy state of mind and neurological impairment, Corrupted records her struggle to remember as she faces the deleterious effects of the therapy on her mind, body ...
Prelude of a Story is the entrance to a world created by the intimate revelations that Samuel, the director's father, tells about Marion, the director's deceased mother, and by the mistreatment and machismo behind it. These revelations crack the director's mind and disturbs her memories, taking a visual journey of the mind between glitches and dropouts as if we were watching a ...
Opposite the imposing Andes stands Santiago de Chile, with its six million inhabitants, its clouds of pollution and its social housing high-rises stretching as far as the eye can see. During the lockdown, Felipe Elgueta and Ananké Pereira create a mosaic formed by moments from the daily life of immigrants living in cramped accommodation, the profile of a fragmented urban landsc...
A separation that takes place a few weeks before the pandemic breaks out, will make geography and distances feel like they did in the times of our ancestors. Unpredictable, abrupt, and extensive, these landscapes sometimes external and some others internal, unleash a story that has not been revealed.
In October 2019, the Chilean government decided to raise the price of transport tickets, sparking days of intense protests. It was during this turbulent period that Cabaret Travesía Travesti was performed for the last time. As well as being entertaining and hilariously funny, this radical show was razor-sharp and extremely political. Scantily clad, wearing sky-high heels and da...
Sergio Larrain is the only Chilean photographer to have been represented by the prestigious New York photo agency Magnum. His enigmatic approach to photography earned him international recognition. Yet, having arrived at the peak of his career, he unexpectedly decided to retreat to hermithood in northern Chile. With a huge amount of material, Sergio Larrain, The Eternal Moment ...
A film essay about a singular couple, Paco and Manolo, two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona, who have been together for thirty years. Both have managed to work as a single photographer and have captured their imagery in the Kink magazine, a very personal photography fanzine with an essentially Mediterranean homoerotic aesthetic. Paco and Manolo’s style can ...
Aged 15, Alexis is one of the promising dancers at the Cuban National Ballet School. When his parents decide to move to Florida, the young prodigy, determined to continue his training, comes up against the harshness of American teaching methods and his feelings of uprootedness. A documentary Billy Elliot illuminated by the grace and energy of its hero.
一个牧羊人带着成群的牛羊翻越森林、悬崖与河流，朝着安第斯山脉的腹地前行。在一个被洪水淹没的小山谷顶，他感到深深的孤独，体会到琐碎日常里时间不可阻挡的流逝。于是一点一点地，他在山林间迷失了自我，而梦境正犹如鬼魅一般向他袭来。这是一部令人眼前一亮的黑白胶片电影。
