Francisco Reyes

30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.

Una de las cintas perdidas de Raoúl Ruiz, concluida por la cineasta y viuda del realizador, Valeria Sarmiento. Realizado en seis días con actores de telenovelas, es un juego en cuanto a instalar la idea de que todo Chile era una "telenovela". La realidad es, literalmente, la idea de Baudrillard sobre el simulacro. Es una colección de sketches jugando con los acentos y patrones del lenguaje en Chile. Ruiz dice: "Los chilenos a veces se pueden hablar sin verbos ni los sujetos, de modo que no podemos saber lo que uno está hablando. "Mi actitud es la de un 'extranjero'. Intenté mostrar cómo Chile se ha convertido en extraño para mí".

Marina (Daniela Vega) una joven camarera aspirante a cantante y Orlando (Francisco Reyes), veinte años mayor, planean un futuro juntos. Tras una noche de fiesta, Marina lo lleva a urgencias, pero él muere al llegar al hospital. Ella debe entonces enfrentar las sospechas por su muerte. Su condición de mujer transexual supone para la familia de Orlando una completa aberración. Ella tendrá que luchar para convertirse en lo que es: una mujer fuerte, pasional... fantástica.

Es 1948 y la Guerra Fría ha llegado a Chile. En el Congreso, el Senador Pablo Neruda acusa al gobierno de traición y es rápidamente destituido por el Presidente Videla (Castro). El director de la Policía de Investigaciones Óscar Peluchonneau es asignado para detener al poeta. Neruda intenta huir del país con su esposa Delia del Carril, pero se ven obligados a esconderse. En la lucha con su némesis Peluchonneau, Neruda ve una oportunidad para reinventarse. Juega con el Director de la Policía, dejando pistas orientadas para hacer su juego del gato y el ratón más peligroso e íntimo. En esta historia de persecución, Neruda identifica sus propias posibilidades heroicas: la oportunidad de convertirse tanto en símbolo de la libertad como en una leyenda literaria.

Bajo la atenta mirada de una mujer que los cuida, cuatro sacerdotes fugitivos viven en una pequeña casa de un pueblo costero. Todos ellos cometieron actos que los atormentan y se encuentran en este retirado hogar para olvidar sus pecados.

Elisa, una solitaria y tímida bibliotecaria, se muda a vivir a un céntrico edificio, sin saber que allí se cometió recientemente el crimen de una joven universitaria. Sin entender porqué, Elisa comienza a sufrir una serie de sensaciones que poco a poco irán develando una personalidad hasta entonces desconocida, llevándola a vivir situaciones extremas que a su vez irán dando pistas sobre el asesino de la antigua inquilina, El visitante Nocturno. Dejar la casa de los padres, puede no haber sido una buena decisión.

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.

Santiago de Chile, 1973. Gonzalo Infante y Pedro Machuca, dos niños de once años, viven en dos mundos diametralmente opuestos: el primero en un barrio residencial, y el segundo en un poblado ilegal a pocas manzanas de distancia. El director de un colegio religioso privado, el padre McEnroe, es un idealista que, con el apoyo de algunos padres, intenta integrar en el elitista colegio a chicos procedentes del poblado. Es así como Pedro Machuca y Gonzalo Infante llegan a ser compañeros de clase y amigos en un momento de gravísíma división y enfrentamiento dentro de la sociedad chilena. (FILMAFFINITY)

It's the year 2006 in Chile and reality TV rules the airwaves. Ten strangers are taken to the snowy summits of the Andes; The challenge is to survive in an underground shelter.

La historia transcurre en el pueblo chileno de Lota, 1897. En las profundidades del Chiflón del Diablo, la mina de carbón más grande del mundo, una gran rebelión se gesta en el corazón de un hombre. Mientras, la aristocrática familia Cousiño Goyenechea sueña con el advenimiento del progreso, los mineros del carbón luchan por imponerse a sus infames condiciones de trabajo.

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".

Una embajada americana es tomada por un grupo de terroristas Serbios. Los agentes de la CIA Davis y Moore son enviados para intentar acabar con el problema por la vía diplomática. Después de muchos intentos, las fuerzas de la OTAN, envían al oficial Bill Ross por si el uso de la fuerza se hace necesario. Desafortunadamente, los Serbios matan a la mujer de Ross, mientras trabajaba para USA en Bosnia. Ross decidira acabar con los Serbios a toda costa.

Teresa is a girl from Chilean aristocracy. She lives a double life, at day she dresses very elegant and fancy, while at night she assist to high society meetings at the Crillon Hotel in Santiago, where diplomats and wealthy people meet. However, her family is economically ruined after a bad sale of her father's mines and they have to live at Romero Street, where the working class lives.

Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of Chile. - IFFR

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

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).

While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death.

A cyclist decides to go for everything and win the 'Tour of Chile' Race, so he can finance the medical treatment for his ill mother with the prize. However, he must soon recognize that the sporting event is corrupted by commercial and marketing interests, in addition to the political goals of the military regime.

Sussi es una chica provinciana, bastante ingenua que llega a Santiago buscando un nuevo rumbo en su vida. Sus ambiciones chocan así con la realidad de una ciudad en donde abunda gente que busca aprovecharse de ella.

A mix between documentary and fiction, Angeles shows the story of a group of college students who gradually disappear, with no explanation. Focuses specifically on the story of Juan Maino.

Martinez, an embittered Chilean in his sixties who has lived in Mexico for the past 40 years and is being forced to retire from his job. As he struggles with life changes, a neighbor suddenly dies and as he sifts through her diary and her things, he begins to live vicariously through her and find new meaning in life.