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.

칠레의 TV 드라마에는 사회현실이 반영되지 않고 있다는 문제의식 하에 제작된 이 영화는 아이러니하게도 TV 드라마 모음으로 구성되어 있다. 불통과 전운이 감도는 칠레의 정치 현실을 통속극의 에피소드에 녹였다.

낮에는 웨이트리스, 밤에는 가수로 활동하는 마리나는 생일에 연인 올란도를 갑작스레 잃는다. 사랑하는 이의 죽음을 슬퍼하기도 전 올란도의 가족과 경찰은 마리나가 트렌스젠더라는 이유로 그녀를 용의선상에 올린다. 마리나는 세상의 의심과 편견에 맞서 자신의 사랑과 존재를 지키기 위해 힘든 싸움을 시작한다.

권력에 저항한 정치인이자 민중을 대변하는 칠레의 전설적인 시인 ‘네루다’. 공개적으로 정부를 비난한 그를 잡아오라는 대통령의 명령을 받은 비밀경찰 ‘오스카’는 도피를 위해 아내 ‘델리아’와 함께 은둔생활을 하는 ‘네루다’의 흔적을 밤낮 없이 쫓는다. 아이러니하게도 은둔생활이 길어질수록 ‘네루다’는 세계적 영웅이 되어가고, 그를 잡아야만 하는 ‘오스카’조차 그가 남긴 책 속 문장들에 매료되고 마는데…

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.

Elisa, a lonely and shy librarian, moves to live in a downtown building, without knowing the killing of a young student took place there some time ago. A strange feeling taking over her will cause a drastic personality change while also leading her to unveil the secret behind the murder.

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, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

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.

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

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".

When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.

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 comes to the big city to find love and success.

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.