Jaime Vadell

The film centers on a town in Santiago, where Juan Luis Godoy, a worker who dabbles in literature, has a verbal confrontation with a novelist (Waldo Rojas) who, representing Editorial Quimantú, has gone to propose to the villagers a literary workshop where they would study Georg Lukács, socialist realism, superstructure and class consciousness, among other theoretical issues. Godoy, for whom the important thing is not the technique but the creation, discusses this offer but, in the end, the project is approved.

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.

Victoria, a mother addicted to the internet and work, is completely disconnected from her two teenage children, Clara and Julián. Just when he is about to receive that long-awaited promotion, a solar storm leaves the entire world without internet, indefinitely. With her ex-husband stranded in another country, she is faced with the reality that she has to be a mother without the help of apps or the internet.

A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony.

Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.

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.

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.

Two old friends meet after 40 years to unearth a treasure they had buried in the desert.

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.

After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.

Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Two friends reunite after many years, after they catch up with each other's personal lives, one question raises in the conversation "What happened to Soto?"

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.

A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.

Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.

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.

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.

Five medicine interns in an old public hospital must face all their fears when they start to being stalked by a strange being.

Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.

The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.

In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...

Cassandra is a teenager who is seeking God so she enters in the youth group of the Parish. There she meets Father Agustin , who unleashes her in confusion, on the border between carnal love and a fatherly relationship. Everything is accentuated when they go to a spiritual retreat to the coast, where the rest of the group members will show their true colors

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.

After a hectic love life,Pelao Infante has decided to settle down, marrying his girlfriend.But everything collapses when suddenly his ex appear claiming she's expecting a son from him.

A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.

This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.

A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.

A black comedy picturing bloody Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire.