Cristián Carvajal

Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Through illustrations and sounds, Una vez la noche experiments with the obsessive narration of four diverse characters –all of which are lost in the settings of their memory– to exhibit crucial events that marked their lives forever. Through a particular mise-en-scène, the film provides apparently ordinary people with a brilliant singularity, introducing us to a new perception of reality.

In a violent city where a man succumbs to the loneliness and delirium of his unfulfilled desires. He wishes to belong somewhere. And the only way to achieve this goal is projecting in his own mind another version of himself, a "second man", someone -who will be accepted.

Em uma cúpula de presidentes latino-americanos no Chile, onde as estratégias e alianças geopolíticas da região são definidas, Hernán Blanco, o presidente argentino, vive um drama político e familiar que o fará enfrentar seus próprios demônios. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

A pregnant woman, who is taking care of her son with development problems, is at her breaking point when a caregiver from the Philippines steps into her life. Diana suspects that she’s using voodoo against her after the quick improvements of her son.

Raquel is a teacher who resists the idea of retiring. One day she has to teach a class at her old school, only to find out she has been replaced with someone much younger. She insists still on teaching, and gets the support of her former students who will occupy the classroom demanding her reinstatement, leading to a small revolution that will threaten the establishment's order.

Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.

Gloria é uma divorciada de 58 anos. Seus filhos saí­ram de casa, mas ela não tem vontade de passar seus dias e noites sozinha. Determinada a desafiar a velhice e a solidão, ela entra de cabeça em um turbilhão de festas para solteiros em busca de gratificação instantânea – que só leva repetidamente para decepções e vazio. Mas então ela conhece Rodolfo, um ex-oficial naval sete anos mais velho que ela, a quem se sente romanticamente inclinada. Glora até começa a imaginar uma relação permanente entre os dois. No entanto, o encontro apresenta desafios inesperados e Gloria gradualmente se encontra sendo forçada a confrontar seus próprios segredos obscuros.

When a prominent researcher in the field of human memory returns home, he stumbles upon the fact that a man's past, as he remembers and tells it, is often nothing but fiction.

A man wants to become a TV-star and he will try anything despite his advanced age and what everyone says about him and his lack of talent and charisma for the job. But while he starts getting closer to his goal, his house starts crowding with unwanted guests.