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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…
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Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decided to return to her hometown to stage a play about the conquest of Chile, which will allow her to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost but never had.
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Santiago de Chile, 2012. When she goes back to classes at her all-girls high school, Alexandra (17) does not want to face reality: neither the failure of a year of mobilization nor her early pregnancy. Going from utopia, where politics is handled between women, to the repetitive domestic character of her home is a radical change. Alexandra sees her dreams fading away, and her self-destructive ghosts coming back to her again.
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Michelsen, an older trucker who is lonely and sick, while traveling through Patagonia meets someone on the highway who reminds him of his daughter, whom he has not seen in years.
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고교 시절부터 가장 친한 친구 사이인 크리스티나와 수잔나는 어느덧 삼십 대에 접어들어 인생의 전환점을 앞두고 있다. 하지만 남편과 별거를 택한 크리스티나는 아직 홀로 설 준비가 되지 않았고, 수잔나는 또다시 엄마의 집으로 들어가야 할 처지다. 민감한 상황 탓일까. 두 사람은 크게 싸운 뒤 연락을 끊고 각자의 위치에서 주변에 있는 이기적이고 자기중심적이며 독선적인 남자들을 상대해야만 한다.
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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.
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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.
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예순여섯 살의 노나는 과거의 연인에게 복수하고 칠레의 작은 해안가 마을 ´피칠레무´에서 산다. 노나가 온 후, 마을에는 원인불명의 연쇄방화가 발생한다. 이웃들은 그녀를 의심하지만, 노나는 ´재창조´라는 신념에만 충실할 뿐이다.
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A dialogue between the collective and the personal, a living memory that combines the dreams and realities of the Haitian community residing in Chile. This dialogue is guided by the voice of Wilner Petit-Frère, a Haitian immigrant who observes and captures, in a print publication, the society where he ended up living in this stage of his life.
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Ariel gets involved in a teenager's civil arrest, who is accused of stealing a phone. A mob surrounds the young man and some curse and beat him, some defend him. The police isn't showing up. Ariel has to decide what side he is on.
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A young couple living with their little daughter are shaken to the core when a childhood friend is released from prison and wants the money he won from an old debt.
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Something dwells in the deep.
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Neel, an ambitious businessman, has bought a crumbling palace to transform into a luxury hotel. He fails to realize that the stones come to life each night, engulfing anyone that dares to trespass.
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A rebellious young man nicknamed Tano and a shy Mapuche boy named Cheo bond together by facing the violence and prejudice they carry during their complicated adolescence.
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A rebellious young man nicknamed Tano and a shy Mapuche boy named Cheo bond together by facing the violence and prejudice they carry during their complicated adolescence.
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Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.
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마네킹 공장의 매니저로 일하는 후안은 18살짜리 아들 파블로와 둘이 산다. 후안은 파블로가 게이임을 눈치채고 있지만, 아들의 성 정체성에 관해서는 암묵적으로 이야기를 꺼내지도 묻지도 않는다. 그러던 어느날 파블로가 게이라는 이유로 심한 구타를 당해 코마 상태에 빠지는 사건이 발생한다. 지금이라도 아들을 위해 살기로 결심한 후안은 직접 범인을 찾아 나서고 엄청난 병원비를 갚으려 고군분투한다. (2016년 제6회 서울프라이드영화제)
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Impressionist portrait of a landscape forged by tragedy. A ghostly wanderer among the vestiges of a story where 44 young soldiers and a sergeant were pushed to their deaths
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Yermén is a transsexual woman in her mid-thirties that works as a tarot reader, and lives in the emblematic low-income neighbourhood of La Victoria. Looking for a sex reassignment, she decides to try for a plastic surgery TV show, where she will meet an enigmatic immigrant who wants to get an operation to look like Naomi Campbell.
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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.
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Rumors spread like wildfire in a small Chilean town as an aborted fetus is found floating on a lake. A single mother and saleswoman’s values and morals are put to test when she discovers the culprit to be one of her young female clients.
