Nicolás Saavedra

Nicolás Saavedra

Birth : 1975-09-18, Santiago, Chile

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Nicolás Saavedra

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Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena
Pancho
A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony.
Broken Panties
Juan
The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of the family members will face what they would prefer remained buried. Nobody is free of killing for love.
A Fantastic Woman
Bruno
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.
El nombre
Casting Director
Santiago leaves a small town jail and, finding no job, gets involved in a robbery that goes wrong, ending up committing a crime. Desperate, runs away and hides in a big city using a random fake name, in search for a second chance. However, that name is the same of another man also hiding a dark secret. Completely made with still photos, The Name explores memory, individual responsibility and the chance to start over.
El nombre
Producer
Santiago leaves a small town jail and, finding no job, gets involved in a robbery that goes wrong, ending up committing a crime. Desperate, runs away and hides in a big city using a random fake name, in search for a second chance. However, that name is the same of another man also hiding a dark secret. Completely made with still photos, The Name explores memory, individual responsibility and the chance to start over.
El nombre
Writer
Santiago leaves a small town jail and, finding no job, gets involved in a robbery that goes wrong, ending up committing a crime. Desperate, runs away and hides in a big city using a random fake name, in search for a second chance. However, that name is the same of another man also hiding a dark secret. Completely made with still photos, The Name explores memory, individual responsibility and the chance to start over.
El nombre
Santiago
Santiago leaves a small town jail and, finding no job, gets involved in a robbery that goes wrong, ending up committing a crime. Desperate, runs away and hides in a big city using a random fake name, in search for a second chance. However, that name is the same of another man also hiding a dark secret. Completely made with still photos, The Name explores memory, individual responsibility and the chance to start over.
Alma
Car Driver
Fernando is married to Alma, a very funny woman with bipolar disorder, which kicks him when she learns that he no longer supports her. When Alma meets an Argentine suitor Fernando reacts discovering that still love her. But it's too late.
Ventana
Five strangers meet on the beach of Ventanas, where the ocean merges with the industrial waste from the area.
Santiago Violenta
Noel
Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.
Boca de pozo
Gary Rojas
Lucho, 48, has been working as a roughneck for a drilling company for the last years. At first, his bulky salary allowed him to explore a life that he had always dreamed of. Over time, the harsh and monotonous work forces him to spend most of his time isolated affecting his ability to think clearly. He becomes trapped... and not even his trailer mate can help him.
The Vineyard
Detective Martin
The legend of the 'Tierra De Sangre' vineyard... A tale that takes place a century ago, where love and death collide, and the mystery is darker than anyone could possibly imagine.
The Dance of Reality
Police Officer
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Tiempos menos modernos
Felipe
Payaguala, a gaucho living in a desolate area of Patagonia, lives alone in a ranch raising sheep and chickens. As the story begins, we watch a small plane arriving at a desolate airport, then a van is seen traveling to an unknown destination. What is going on, one wonders. Well, it appears Payaguala is getting a box, but he does not even open the door of his shack-like house to receive the messenger.
Super
Peter
Displays the experiences of diverse groups of people inside a supermarket.
Scrambled Beer
Jorge
After moving into a new house with his friend, Vladimir starts to notice that he awakes every day in a different week as if he has traveled trough time. Could it be the popular local drink -- beer with eggs?
For Rent
Luc Fernández
Gastón Fernández has arrived at 34 without too much to show or brag about. He has no money, job, girlfriend, friends or life plan. He's a composer that doesn't compose. The one-time "most likely to succeed" at Santiago's Musical Conservatory has passed from promise to failure. He feels he is beginning to wander alone. Isolated and detached. Gastón feels that everyone judges him and see the word loser tattooed on his forehead. At the same time, an alter-ego, a sort of doppelgänger, haunts him.
Mi mejor enemigo
Rojas
After losing their bearings, a group of Chilean soldiers learns some lessons about their enemy's humanity in this dark comedy set during the 1970s war between Chile and Argentina. Digging in where they are, the troop soon discovers a nearby Argentinean platoon. Unsure how to handle the situation, the two groups start passing notes via a stray dog, and eventually achieve a wary camaraderie.
XS - la peor talla
Jalil
"La peor talla", a Chilean play on words meaning both "the worst size" and "the worst joke"... Upper middle class teens give the big guy with small penis a hard time, so to speak.
Underground
Cabeza de Cobre
Lota, 1897. In the depths of the largest coal mine in the world, a great rebellion is brewing inside a man's heart.
Sex Stories
Desde siempre
Santiago, 1996. A renowned drag queen, a sex worker, a bisexual man, a homophobic and various characters gives their honest and stark opinions regarding homosexuality, facing us with the repressive situation in Chile during the nineties.
XX
Julio
A man near his 30s and without a partner is thinking about fatherhood.