Paola Lattus

Paola Lattus

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Paola Lattus

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Other Girls
Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.
La Francisca, a Chilean Youth
Casting
Francisca is a 20-year-old young girl who lives in Tocopilla, a small town in the North of Chile, found between the Atacama desert and the Pacific Ocean. She dreams to leave but she has an 8-year-old brother, Diego, which is imprisoned in a deep mutism. When Fernando, the Diego new’s teacher, offers to apply some new pedagogical initiatives aimed at helping him, Francisca decides to take the chance and agrees, without imagining she bogs in an irreversible issue.
This Is Cristina
Dani Pecosa
Cristina and Susana have been best friends since high school. Now, both over 30 years old, they are still living like they did in their teenage years. Or maybe they never grew up.
Medea
The Impossible One
Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear. But in that single day, she comes up with a plan for revenge. In order to carry out this plan, which will culminate in her murdering her own son, she invokes her innermost strength, summoning the power of the female gender.
Too Late to Die Young
María
During a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
American Huaso
Mauricio
When the woman he loves commits herself with another, Joe, a ridiculous huaso who thinks he is a cowboy, steals from him a valued horse in which he embarks on a journey where he meets singular characters who convince him to fight again for her.
Messi and Maud
Jazmin
Maud and Frank are on holiday in Chile. Their relationship is fragile and so is Maud. After many years of trying, it is now time to face the fact that they will never have children. However, Maud is in denial. After a huge fight with Frank she runs off and sets out on a road trip through Chile to get her life back on track.
Absence
Cruz
A love triangle between a pioneer female writer; her husband -a retired military official-and the love of her life, the painter Moritz Rugendas, with whom she maintains an epistolary relationship for 10 years, with few personal encounters.
Los perros
Elena
Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past.
A Fantastic Woman
Nurse
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Neruda
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
The Retiree
Fabiola
Fabiola returns to her homeland, province of Los Andes, to recover the affection of her family, after seven years of being away.
The Club
Sandokan's Woman
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
The Mud Woman
Violeta
María Cartagena is a seasonal worker in the fruit fields of an arid valley in northern Chile, to bring sustenance to her daughter and disabled husband. During the hard workday she overcomes abuse and mistreatment driven by a powerful motivation: saving enough money to visit her brother’s grave, one of the disappeared after the Pinochet coup.
Natural Disasters
Patricia
Raquel is a teacher who resists the idea of retiring. One day she has to teach a class at her old school, only to find out she has been replaced with someone much younger. She insists still on teaching, and gets the support of her former students who will occupy the classroom demanding her reinstatement, leading to a small revolution that will threaten the establishment's order.
The Year of the Tiger
Thanks
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
The Summer of Flying Fish
Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic experiences and hearbreak - and discovers a silent world in the shadow of her own : that of the Mapuche Indians who demand access to the land and clash with her father.
Across the river
Pedro has lived in the desert for four years, along with his mother and sister; voluntarily marginalized as a result of an inexplicable plague that affected them, their days pass slowly, dry and heavy. Young people must look for water, take care of them, live the painful process of the disease and see their bodies decay while the water is scarce. Death is fast approaching, while the desert blooms at its side.
Ambas Tres
Susana
After returning home, Clara begins an affair with the maid, Susana. Clara's mother soon after starts to suspect.
Special Effects
Paola
About the making of a film and how it fails thanks to a young, egocentric and ambitious director.
Bonsai
Notebook Seller
A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.
Optical Illusions
Manuela
A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged.
Mitómana
Yani
Nora Diaz is an actress obsessed with acting and lying sick. She travels towards her obsessions by testing her characters in reality, on the street. Through them, she observes and listens to the conscious and unconscious inventions of a society, the Chilean one, where truth and lie are confused.
Tony Manero
Pauli
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".