Rudolfo Wedeles

Las últimas 7 horas del presidente de Chile Salvador Allende y sus más cercanos colaboradores al interior del Palacio de La Moneda, durante el brutal golpe de estado el 11 de septiembre de 1973. Basado en hechos reales.

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.

Palestina 1914. Una mañana de julio, Soliman, un joven Palestino y Jacob, su amigo Judio, comienzan a construir una casa en Beit-Sajour, en las colinas de Judea, con piedras traidas de Beit-Yala, mientras la aparente quietud del lugar es interrumpida por ráfagas de violencia que anticipan los futuros días de la guerra.

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.

Vicente goes to Egypt to cover some news for his newspaper, but then he decides to take the investigation further, along the Tropic of Cancer, further and further away (in time and space) from home, and his difficult love life. Therefore he revisits the lands explored 500 years before by the seafarers from his own people: Egypt, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Laos, China... Eventually he must come back.

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

Anne Laugel, a young divorced woman, mother of a ten-year-old girl, Sophie, travels to China to adopt a baby. She is convinced, as a good Westerner, to carry out this adventure for the happiness of the new born, her daughter and hers.

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

A Reality Show TV host tired of the sensationalist routine of this kind of programs and confident in his powerful Imagination, dreams in writing the most original story in the world

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, she becomes involved with several other men, while listening to advice from some older French women who are costume designers. Shown at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival.

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.

En París suceden tres historias que, en principio, parece que no tienen nada que ver entre sí. Un viajante sale a comprar cerillas y regresa veinte años más tarde. Un catedrático de Universidad se hace pasar por mendigo. Finalmente, un hombre de negocios se inventa una familia ficticia en el extranjero para ocultar oscuros asuntos financieros.

A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist.

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.

Aron es un chileno exiliado cuyo padre ha muerto durante sus años de ausencia, y cuyo hermano es uno de los miles de "desaparecidos". Aron, de vuelta a su país, se siente como un náufrago perdido en un lugar que no reconoce, tratando de comprender lo sucedido a su familia y al que fue su país... Tras casi 20 años de exilio, con el regreso de la democracia a Chile, Miguel Littin volvió oficialmente a su país. Previamente había entrado clandestinamente en 1985 para filmar una crónica de la dictadura, osadía que inspiró el libro de Gabriel García Márquez "Aventura de Miguel Littin clandestino en Chile". En "Los Náufragos" reflejó el efecto que había tenido la dictadura de Pinochet en la sociedad chilena a través del personaje de Aron. Según la crítica inglesa, "Los náufragos" es una extraordinariamente oscura y poética película.

Aron es un chileno exiliado cuyo padre ha muerto durante sus años de ausencia, y cuyo hermano es uno de los miles de "desaparecidos". Aron, de vuelta a su país, se siente como un náufrago perdido en un lugar que no reconoce, tratando de comprender lo sucedido a su familia y al que fue su país... Tras casi 20 años de exilio, con el regreso de la democracia a Chile, Miguel Littin volvió oficialmente a su país. Previamente había entrado clandestinamente en 1985 para filmar una crónica de la dictadura, osadía que inspiró el libro de Gabriel García Márquez "Aventura de Miguel Littin clandestino en Chile". En "Los Náufragos" reflejó el efecto que había tenido la dictadura de Pinochet en la sociedad chilena a través del personaje de Aron. Según la crítica inglesa, "Los náufragos" es una extraordinariamente oscura y poética película.

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.

Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film. Sarmiento actually filmed a documentary subject with the mise-en-scène and the cutting of a feature film. Without further ado, she takes the viewer into a world where adults would appear to have died out ; a society within which all functions and professions are held by children with deadly seriousness as if things have always been this way. Only right at the end does Sarmiento reveal that she shot the film at the 'Escuele de Pioneros' set up in Cuba in 1979, an institution which Fidel Castro gave to the children of his people to prepare themselves for a later working life. The film opens with an as-good-as-real wedding ceremony and progresses via a birth to a simulated battle ; from birth to death. The subtle irony with which Sarmiento portrays this 'Utopian' world was not understood by all German critics.

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XIV, dared hatch a plot to oust her husband from the throne. The king's stupidity justified the queen's bravado. Despite being master of unusual strength and having slept with his wife for a long time, she accused him of being impotent. Marie Françoise had acquired through artfulness what Afonso had lost in anger in the kingdom. She had him imprisoned ( November 1667 ) and quickly obtained a papal bull from Rome to confirm her virginity and bless her marriage to her brother-in-law Pedro. Portugal's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
 H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

Isidore es una mujer que vive con sus padres adoptivos. Su padre espera que ella se suicide, pero por el contrario, Isidore irá conociendo a extraños personajes que la acompañarán en un viaje metafísico y criminal.

The story of a Chilean refugee, marked by imprisonment and torture, illustrates the tragedy suffered by victims of violence in Latin America during the years of dictatorship.

Después de haber pasado una buena temporada en la cárcel, un hombre es perseguido por agentes internacionales que quieren darle muerte. Sin saber exactamente qué es lo que pasa, el protagonista se da cuenta de que lo quieren matar porque el libro que escribió sobre su estancia en prisión incluye unas claves secretas que no debían ser reveladas. Él, que lo hizo por azar, se da cuenta de que corre un grave peligro. Uno a uno, los personajes de la novela van siendo eliminados para que el misterioso secreto se mantenga en la sombra para siempre. (FILMAFFINITY)

A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.

La película retrata en años previo al triunfo de la Unidad Popular, el proceso interno de un sacerdote católico que, enfrentado a las injusticias que observa en el entorno parroquial y ante la indolencia de la jerarquía eclesiástica, decide emprender por su cuenta el cambio social.

El film muestra, en tres etapas con diferentes tonalidades de fotografía, la evolución política de Chile a partir de 1937: la subida al poder de Pedro Aguirre Cerda, el sexenato de González Videla y el triunfo de Salvador Allende. Incluye acontecimientos verdaderos como el asesinato del general Schneider, con intercalación de documentales y recuerdos personales del realizador, además de personajes de ficción. Una película que en su época advirtió al naciente gobierno de S. Allende que el voto si no es apoyado por el fusil será rápidamente destruido por la derecha que desea mantener sus privilegios y economía, entonces la revolución no puede ser por la vía electoral. En ella advierte que no se puede esperar que se mantengan impasible después del anuncio público de que van a perder sus privilegios.

Este crudo melodrama chileno se preocupa por la difícil situación de los habitantes de barrios marginales que viven fuera de Santiago. Durante muchos años, con gran dificultad, han estado pagando fielmente pequeñas sumas a un agente inmobiliario. Este hombre ha dicho que al hacerlo pueden obtener el título de las minúsculas parcelas de tierra en las que se encuentran sus casas. De hecho, él los ha estafado y ni siquiera es dueño de la tierra que ha estado "vendiendo". Uno de los habitantes de barrios marginales perjudicados se enfrenta a él cuando visita el barrio pobre, y el agente de bienes raíces lo dispara ante los ojos de todos. La pregunta que enfrentan estos testigos es si testificar en contra de este monstruo hará que sus vidas sean aún más precarias