Focus Chili
Photography appears here as a power- ful means of testifying to one of the most terrible periods in the history of Chile: the Pinochet dictatorship, which marked the years between...
Focus Chili
This film retraces a little-known chapter of Chilean history for the first time: after their exile in Europe, militants of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) returned to the...
Focus Chili
A sandy beach at the ocean. Holidaymakers are beginning to converge, the lifeguard is carefully preparing his station. A Californian-style atmosphere pervades the first images of the film, but make no...
Focus Chili
In this family road movie, a mother and daughter set off together in search of one of their beloved ones: the sister for the mother and the biological father for the daughter. By seeking to shape an...
Focus Chili
The streets of Santiago in the middle of the night, filled with crowds, the sounds of parties, flashing lights. It's New Year's Eve: men, women, children and old peo- ple gather together in town to...
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The interior of a home is also that of a family: Mijael Bustos' camera is placed in these spaces to record and bear witness to the intimate ties and the paradoxes that his loved ones are facing....
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The first image is reminiscent of a black-and-white postcard, similar to those found in flea markets: we see Valparaiso, Chile's second city and a renowned port on the Pacific Ocean. The image...
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On Santa Fé Street in Santiago in Chile, the director Carmen Castillo was injured and her companion killed while fighting in resistance to the Pinochet dictator- ship in the 1970s. A period marked by...
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“I'm a good person”: this is the affirmation, bordering on justification, with which Jorgelino Vergara introduces himself to camera. As an adolescent, he was a ‘mocito', a kind of office boy for the...
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News offers a collage of images of the world and a specific and at times dis- turbing observation of society through fragments of reality that question the audience's perception. The directors Bettina...
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In comparing an old photograph of her great-grandmother, Genoveva, with her own photo and discussing it with her daughter—who has a strong resemblance to great-grandmother—the director questions the...
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In an intimate quest undertaken with modesty, the filmmaker René Ballesteros and his sister seek to reconnect with their mother who disappeared twenty-six years ago. She left the family in Chile in...
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The absurd and touching portrait of Erwin Valdebenito, an office worker whose daily life is one of routine and anonymity . But his obsession with running makes him an improbable little hero: every...
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A tireless traveller through space and time, Carlos Klein explores the confines of Patagonia with his first feature–length film, plunging the viewer into the depths of yesterday, today and tomorrow's...
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On 18 May 2005, a troop of 45 soldiers in the Chilean army, trapped by a vio- lent snowstorm, died in the Antuco region, amidst imposing mountains. This tragic event is brought to the...