Franklin Caicedo
Nascimento : 1928-09-23, Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile
Morte : 2013-03-22
Narciso
"Three minutes" is a film in the fantasy genre. It is the love story between Alex, a journalist who, forced to speak very quickly in his newscast, must take this substance that accelerates his nervous system and Ana, a young piano student who in order to become a concert pianist, needs to gain speed in her piano playing. They both end up over accelerating and finding each other in a parallel world where everything around them seems to have stopped moving. In this motionless world, they will live their great romance.
Gonzalo Romero, a young Argentine lawyer, struggles to find his place in a world ruled by pessimism. When his father and brother are assaulted by the nephew of a senator, he sets out on a long journey to bring the aggressor to trial.
Negro
A couple with two children, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, suffering economic hardship. The father returns to his birthplace, the field, but there is his father and brother out of work, so they decided to return to the city with his family.
Sebastián
The story of Tuco, an amateur singer who thinks he sings like Carlos Gardel and locks himself in his room, waiting for a group of musicians to accompany him in a hypothetical television debut.
Santa Cruz
A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxity. He engineers the election of a new abbess, severe and ascetic. The virreina visits Sor Juana often and inspires her to write passionate poetry that the archbishop finds scandalous. The viceroy protects her. After he is replaced and returns to Spain with his wife, Sor Juana faces envy and retribution. A bishop betrays her, her confessor humbles her. Plague, a tribunal, and her confession as "the worst of all" end the great poet's life.
Aníbal
A luxurious apartment is assaulted by three subjects who, after murdering the maid, patiently await the arrival of the owner of the house. When it returns, it is pressured violently to indicate the place where half a million dollars would be found. The ignorant woman of the existence of money, sees how her home is progressively destroyed while, in different hiding places, documents are found that implicate her husband in criminal activities.
Victor
Paulo, filho da brasileira Laura e do chileno Victor, é forçado a abandonar o Chile, seu país natal, e viaja ao Brasil aos 6 anos de idade. Dez anos depois as dúvidas comuns de um adolescente somadas às lembranças de seu irmão, que fora assassinado pela ditadura chilena, fazem de Paulo um rapaz rebelde e iconoclasta. Ele está com problemas com Helena, sua namorada. Com a chegada de Patrícia, sua prima chilena que chegou aqui exilada, um novo mundo é colocado diante de Paulo. Essa súbita mudança leva Paulo a realizar um gesto de protesto dramático.
Borracho Sosa
Biographical adventure movie about notorious Argentine outlaw Bautista Bairoletto, known as the "Robin Hood of La Pampa".
A prostitute falls in love with a painter with whom she believes she can save her life.
Luisa's Father
A prostitute falls in love with a painter with whom she believes she can save her life.
Don Rufino Lucero
A prostitute tries to communicate with one of her lovers who died in a duel, but who appears to him is his other lover, greater than the previous one, died in the same duel.
A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.
Juan
A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.
The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man.
Farina the Chilean
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
Directed by Nicolás Sarquís
Ernesto (segment "María")
Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's pregnant. The father refuses to cooperate. The second story is set in Arica, and concerns smuggling in northern Chile. The third and final story, "Ojos de gato", concerns a cashier that is bewitched by a mysterious "Lady in Black".