Mayra Morán

The list of fantastic, mythical animals compiled by Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 18th century work Systema Naturae could well be the seed of Niles Atallah’s Animalia Paradoxa – an eccentric tale set in a post-apocalyptic world that follows a strange creature struggling to survive. Dressed in rags and a gas mask, moving like an alien dancer, Animalia roams through an abandoned building – crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic, waste. She laboriously carries and fills up an array of empty bottles to enjoy a modest bath. The camera eye lingers on her with compassion and explores the architectures of trash at an agonising pace. We know in our hearts that Animalia is a human-amphibian longing for the sea…

Rafaela (20) y Gabriela (21) son mejores, mejores amigas. El inesperado embarazo de Rafa, amenaza el rosado y extravagante oasis que han construido. El aborto en Chile es ilegal, pero no imposible y juntas deberán enfrentar la hostilidad del sistema, para realizarse el procedimiento sin reventar su preciosa burbuja ni su relación.

Ernesto es guardia de seguridad en un supermercado donde pasa todos los días mirando a los clientes a través de las cámaras de vigilancia. Por las noches, cambia su uniforme de guardia por el traje de Carver y patrulla el barrio hasta que Alicia le propone un caso de verdad: cazar al narcotraficante que ha matado a su hermano.

Iris and Ariel are 17-year-old twins, who live with their mother and older sister in an old house in the middle of a rocky island covered with molluscs and birds. The teenagers have grown up isolated from the mainland, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. The abrupt absence of their mother deeply wounds the three siblings, and Iris, moved by a strong need of separating herself from her brother, decides to go alone to the city for the first time.

In northern Chile, Leonel Codoceo (58), a lonely security guard for a mining company, dedicates his free time to unveil the mysteries of extraterrestrial life. Confident in the existence of beings from another planet, Leonel organizes what will be the first UFO vigil open to the public in an emblematic place in the Atacama Desert. At the same time, he prepares for the arrival of Sara (57), his ex-wife, who will arrive in Copiapó from Australia to remarry him. Under the starry blanket of the night sky and the immensity of the desert, Leonel will seek to make contact for the first time.

En Playa Chica se reúnen todas las generaciones de Tarifa. Mientras seguimos a uno de ellos entre casas de pescadores y discotecas, surge la pregunta ¿lo que vemos es real o parte del sueño Mediterráneo, ya caduco, de sensualidad y libertad?

Claudina es una mujer reprimida del campo. Tras la muerte de su marido, conoce a Elsa, una mujer casada con la que descubre el verdadero amor. En un pequeño pueblo conservatorio del sur de Chile, obsesionada con el avistamiento de ovnis, emprende un nuevo viaje.

Visual essay based in on the filmmaker experience, when a spinal cord injury forced her to surrender her body over the clinical gaze. Reveries as a resistance, travelling through her body slowly being released.

Petit-Frère es un diálogo entre lo colectivo y lo personal, una memoria viva que mezcla ensoñaciones y la realidad de la comunidad haitiana residente en Chile. Este diálogo es guiado por la voz de Wilner Petit-Frère, un inmigrante haitiano que observa y plasma en un boletín impreso la sociedad donde le tocó vivir en este período de su vida."

Muñeca wanders through Santiago streets with his comrades, All them tired from work and unhappiness, go in the search of a party or just a reason to celebrate.Little by little things began to unveil the experiences and the different points of view that each one has about work, the city and life ...

In the midst of a convulsed country, a group of people attend a poetry workshop that can last only one night,taught by the renowned academic David Sanhueza.

12 years ago, Rolf suffered a violent accident that caused him severe amnesia. During his long rehabilitation, Rolf had to rebuild his identity from scratch and, while doing so, he invented a flying machine that would give him the freedom of a bird. In a very intimate following of a four year period we discover Rolf´s way of perceiving the world and the contradictions of a character who suffers at discovering that he has fathered two girls and that he has to make up his mind either at becoming an adult or persuing his life long dream of the flying machine.

Tras un violento ataque a su hijo adolescente gay, Juan, un retraído administrador en una fábrica de maniquíes, lucha entre pagar los exorbitantes costos médicos de su hijo y un último intento por convertirse en socio de su jefe. Callejones sin salida y traiciones inesperadas lo harán descubrir que el mundo que él creía conocer estaba listo para ser violento también con él. Juan ya ha cometido muchos errores, pero su hijo aún puede salvarse.

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.

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.

A beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer.

QUIERO ENTRAR es acerca del sueño de un hombre de convertirse en un personaje de la televisión y lo intentará a pesar de su edad, de lo que le digan los demás y de su falta de talento televisivo. Pero mientras él trata de avanzar para conseguir su meta, su casa se va poblando de personajes del pasado y del presente.

An inevitable march, an exodus or an exile. A town that is abandoned and remembered. On the way, perhaps, there is an end.