Chimera 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Being caught at school giving each other a hickey, Manu (14) and Toña (15) begin a journey of desire, guilt and goodbyes.
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.
Laura turns 21, but she is no more. Through a secret ritual, Violeta and her cousin Sofia (12) strive to communicate with her after her death. In her passage to adolescence, Violeta enters a world of goodbyes.
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.
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.
n his struggle to continue living in a city he hates, Anibal, a student of geology, fights the depression caused by the pace of urban life by exercising and escaping to the countryside. The lack of concentration in his studies and his own will, will make him doubt his decision to stay or leave the career at the end of the semester, and with it, Santiago.
Crime is rampant in Santiago's upper neighborhoods, or so the wealthy neighbors of Las Condes and Lo Barnechea think. The municipalities of these neighborhoods feed the paranoia of their inhabitants by installing television surveillance balloons in order to fight crime in their neighborhoods. These state-of-the-art devices can record 24/7, observing everything that happens in the communes and ignoring any type of privacy.
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.
Photographer Patricio Guzmán Campos has died in exile. Silvia edited his retrospective book a few years ago and after learning about Patricio's death, she sits down to read again the letters he sent her, in which he reveals the feelings and reflections provoked by facing his photography during the process of making the book, where he sees a place that has been taken away from him, but which he tries to hold on to through his memories.
Francisca and Sofía, an open couple, meet Anaís, a young Turkish woman, with whom they establish a beautiful friendship that makes them question their own relationship.