Luis Alarcón

The life and experiences of six emblematic Chilean actors. One by one, they relate aspects of their trajectories, origin and dreams, reliving and analyzing not only their careers, but also happy and historical moments that marked their lives.

O primeiro longa-metragem de Raúl Ruiz foi considerado perdido por décadas, até que seus rolos mudos incompletos foram encontrados em um cinema de Santiago. O trabalho do autor chileno foi continuado por sua viúva e editora de longa data, Valeria Sarmiento, também uma cineasta subversiva e brilhante. Tal como o tango, o filme avança para a frente e para trás, com rostos de 1967 e vozes de 2019 se unindo para moldar a história de um homem assombrado pelo fantasma nômade de sua esposa. Documentário e ficção combinam-se de forma bela, engraçada e gloriosamente desconcertante para formar a apoteose de um cinema eternamente sorrindo para a morte.

Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Secos is a short that makes this reality visible, through the dialog between anonymous fighters from the most heavily affected provinces, with renowned actors and actresses in the country. The objective is to activate the topic of water as a human right, to achieve in the future the recovery of this vital element as a common good for all communities and territories.

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.

Uma série de vinhetas interligadas cujos personagens se encontram em todos os tipos de situações absurdas, em uma mistura de melodrama e fantasia. Os estereótipos de novelas como adultério e femme fatales são tratados com ironia, resultando em alguns comentários satíricos sobre a política chilena.

Documentary film which tells the story of an initiative of the government of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the objective of which was to bring culture closer to those who had no access to it. The People’s Train of Culture was part of the 40th measure of Allende’s programme of government which aimed to create a National Institute of Arts and Culture and colleges of art in all the country’s provinces.

The story about a boxer and a police in the forest following the traces of evil forces.

Gerardo was never detached from his mother. So when he presented his first girlfriend, the gorgeous model Ana Verónica, the mother will do everything possible to get rid of her.

In the Strait of Magellan, on 1923, an Irish photographer gradually discovers that the defendants in a bloody crime are innocent, and are only victims of intolerance and political expediency.

The life story of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro who leaves his wife and children in Chile and flees to Paris in order to devote himself to poetry.

Mandrill is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty daughter of the ruthless killer. Mandrill now faces the most serious decision of his life ...

La represa tells the story of an aboriginal tribe that finds itself endangered by the construction of a dam over their sacred land. "Beard in head" and his loyal friend "Straight hair" will have to go to the city to prohibit the construction of the dam by the white man.

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.

Street tough Zamir has been in love with Kim ever since he rescued her from rapists, but the only way that he can express his affection is to attack any man who shows interest in her. Kim tolerates Zamir's infatuation, but keeps him at arm's length. When Max Kalba arrives in town to take vengeance on Kim's father, Zamir attempts to rescue her once again.

Two men at cause of confusion and superstitions become involved in a duel that ends unexpectedly.

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.

The fatal relationship between Gracia, the teenage daughter of a retired general officer and Gabriel, an outsider who has just come back to his home at the beach with his father, a leftist militant.

A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit.

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago.

In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...

After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.

Johnny García, de 17 anos, envolve-se com quatro homens mais velhos que planeiam roubar um esquema de lavagem de dinheiro operado a partir de uma loja de videos. Quando tentam escapar, uma avalanche de atenção da mídia espera por eles. Baseado em acontecimentos reais.

In an imaginary country in Latin America, a man asks for asylum in an embassy. Trickery, passion, and intrigue are the motives of his actions.

A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventures in a massage parlor where he meets Paola - a young prostitute he falls in love with.

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.

Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties.

Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success.

Widowed,middle-aged sadsack has never known love in any of his marriages.

A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion

Young waitress at a Texas diner falls in love with a recent immigrant, but a privileged rich boy and his family interfere in her life in mind-boggling ways.

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

A former public-services worker wants to return to his job. In the attempt, he meets wandering people, who seek "parallel ways" of survival in a chaotic socio-political context in Chile, after the 1973 Coup d'état .

Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.

A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army.

The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.

This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

A young composer falls in love with a prostitute who is paid by his father to seduce him, but she doesn't love him.

Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.

Baseado em fatos reais, o filme recria um dos grandes crimes ocorridos no Chile na década de 60, quando um camponês chamado José del Carmen Valenzuela Torres foi preso pelo assassinato de uma camponesa e seus cinco filhos na localidade de Nahueltoro. Considerado um dos melhores filmes chilenos de todos os tempos.

Baseado em fatos reais, o filme recria um dos grandes crimes ocorridos no Chile na década de 60, quando um camponês chamado José del Carmen Valenzuela Torres foi preso pelo assassinato de uma camponesa e seus cinco filhos na localidade de Nahueltoro. Considerado um dos melhores filmes chilenos de todos os tempos.

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she"s fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island"s main export is news. The clearest anticipation of Ruiz"s later European work, The Penal Colony is a powerful document of the tensions and contradictions in Chile in the months before Allende"s electoral victory.

"Tres tristes tigres" é um filme chileno de 1968, o primeiro longa-metragem de Raúl Ruiz. É um drama inspirado na obra de teatro homônima de Alejandro Sieveking. Com o Golpe Militar de setembro de 1973, o filme perdeu-se no Chile. Mas, graças a uma cópia guardada no Uruguai, pôde ser exibido no Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar de 1993. Três protagonistas (Tito, Amanda e Lucho) circulam pelos bares tentando ocultar suas misérias.

Three criminals escape prison and find themselves at the swampland home of a strange old man and his sexy blonde daughter. This black-and-white Argentine crime film was dubbed into English and spiced up with over 10 minutes of color nudie insert shots.

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".