Claudio Vargas

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…

평생을 함께 산 아나와 마리아. 말기 암 진단을 받은 마리아를 위해 숲속 나무집으로 이사한 이들은 그곳에서 자연스럽게 죽음이 다가오길 기다린다. 틀에 박힌 일과에 묻혀 지내던 커플은 자신들에게 찾아온 고통의 순간을 함께 이겨내며 다시금 사랑을 확인한다.

Somewhere at the end of the world, where ocean and rocks play their endless games of hide and seek, lives a man. In his mysterious solitude, he is not alone. One day, remains of a white whale are washed by a storm on a beach. In this stranded portrait inspired by H. Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick the director questions our inner reality and our own gaze on it.

The Araucaria araucana is a prehistoric tree species, present on earth for millions of years. "Vestiges" tells its story from its origin in a visual and chronological way, showing its resistance to the different external forces it has to face, the different ways it has been related to humans, until the disease that threatens them, as a consequence of the climate change.

Yun is grounded by her father for spending three days away from home for breaking family traditions. In her stoic nocturnal journey through the streets, malls and service centers, Yun experiences an accelerated maturity, of which she only realizes when she returns and faces her father.

Yun is grounded by her father for spending three days away from home for breaking family traditions. In her stoic nocturnal journey through the streets, malls and service centers, Yun experiences an accelerated maturity, of which she only realizes when she returns and faces her father.

20 세기 초반, 페드로는 강력한 지주의 결혼식 사진을 찍기 위해 티에라 델 푸에고에 도착한다. 페드로는 소녀 티가 아직 가시지 않은, 신부 사라의 순수한 아름다움을 포착하다 눈덮인 산 한가운데 버려지는데….

정체를 알 수 없는 한 노부부가 매일 가방을 들고 교차로를 지난다. 감독은 그들에 대한 호기심으로 안데스 산맥의 프로빈시아 산이 보이는 사거리에 카메라를 설치한다. 카메라에 담긴 것은 몇 십 년간 붙박이처럼 있던 구멍가게들이 사라지고 대기업 체인과 높은 건물이 들어서며 변화하는 동네 풍경이다. 문득 감독은 집 안에 잠자고 있던 과거 기록을 찾기 시작한다. 언뜻 비서사적인 이미지의 나열로 보이는 이 영화는, 삶의 변하지 않는 가치에 대해 질문하며 관객 스스로 이미지의 맥락을 만드는 경험을 선사한다.

1990년 칠레의 여름. 소규모 가족들이 안데스산맥 바로 아래에서 도시로부터 떨어져 공동체를 이루며 살아간다. 소피아, 루카스 그리고 클라라는 신년 전야 파티를 준비하면서 자신들의 부모님, 첫사랑 그리고 여러 두려움과 맞선다.

1990년 칠레의 여름. 소규모 가족들이 안데스산맥 바로 아래에서 도시로부터 떨어져 공동체를 이루며 살아간다. 소피아, 루카스 그리고 클라라는 신년 전야 파티를 준비하면서 자신들의 부모님, 첫사랑 그리고 여러 두려움과 맞선다.

독일계 사이비 종교의 광신도들로부터 탈출한 마리아는 은신처로 몸을 피신한다. 그렇지만 기이하게도 은신처마저도 마리아의 감정에 긍정적이지 않은 방식으로 작동하기 시작한다. 이곳에서의 일들은 어느새 악몽으로 바뀌어 버린다.

한때는 화려한 성생활을 자랑했던 인기 가수. 이젠 성욕도 떨어지고, 한물간 그녀가 기묘한 팬을 따라 칠레로 향한다. 그녀는 뜨거운 욕망을 되살릴 수 있을까?

옛날 어느 한 여행자가 세상의 끝에 다다랐다. 독립한지 얼마 지나지 않은 그 곳, 남미의 끝 언저리에서 그 여행자는 자신만의 왕국을 세웠다. 이 이야기는 1860년대의, '오를리 앙투완 드 투낭'이란 한 미친 프랑스 탐험가의 실화이다. 스스로 헌법을 만들고 국가를 건설한 그는 원주민들을 통합하여 통치자로 선출된다. 실존했으나 허구같은 한 개척자의 이야기. (2017년 제21회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)

Easter Island is the second-most remote island from a continent in the world, after the Tristan da Cunha archipelago. It is located in the Pacific Ocean 3,680 kilometres away from Chile (of which it is part), inhabited for centuries by a population of Polynesian origin (for whom its name is Rapa-Nui). Exploited by European colonisers from the 18th century onwards, visited by archaeologists, anthropologists and tourists attracted by the moai, the large tuff statues that people its coastlines, and filmed thousands of times, it has a stable population and an administration that manages the existence of the community, including justice. The presence, on this isolated territory from which escape is difficult, of a prison, even if it is a building without walls, is therefore a bizarre paradox...

Four high school seniors steal an important college entrance exam and go on vacation to "study," but accidentally lose the exam while partying.

Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.

An unexpected guest interrupts a couple's last day together, transforming their peaceful farewell.

Two brothers return to Chile after years in Iraq.

Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.

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.

A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members wander away from the house separately, confronting the sea and an unspoken fear that slowly consumes them.

Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms.

In the midst of the battle between a humble technical center and a powerful university for the award to build a robot to Chile, love arises.

84세의 나이에 선보인 신작 은 동명의 자서전을 원작으로 칠레에서 보낸 그의 유년기를 보여준다. 현실은 우리의 상상력이 빚어낸 춤과 같다는 그의 생각이 은유, 신화, 시로 점철된 그의 일대기와 함께 영화 속에서 펼쳐진다. 조도로프스키 특유의 마법과 같은 이미지와 사운드가 독특한 서사 안에서 한 편의 시와 같은 감동을 준다. (2013년 17회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)

As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.

Lucía is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile. The film occurs in December 2006 during the weeks that take place from the ex-dictator Pinochet’s funeral to Christmas Eve. Through the simple observation of Lucía’s daily life, the spectator is allowed access into a hidden and neglected world of a generation of Chileans striving to recover from the military dictatorship.

Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has.

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.

Displays the experiences of diverse groups of people inside a supermarket.

Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not only of getting away of the loneliness that constitutes their innermost core, but also of finding themselves, they reach for each other to get brotherly and sexual love, affection, and a space and time of their own.

The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.

The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.

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.

Cecilia Ureta, host of Chile's highest-rated news show, announces the results of a United Nations survey, the conclusion of which states that 62% of Chilean women are or have never been unfaithful. Ironically, Cecilia maintains an extramarital relationship with the network's owner. Maliciously, a rival colleague discovers this during a live broadcast, with tragic results. The revelation spreads becoming a conversation of national interest.

Two friends find themselves in search of their lost money after a drug transaction goes wrong.

Lota, 1897. In the depths of the largest coal mine in the world, a great rebellion is brewing inside a man's heart.