Valeria Hernández

Monkey Bird

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.

Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.

After finding a strange crashed object in the middle of the Andes Mountains, two old muleteers are confronted in a duel of ambitions.

A washed-up baseball star hallucinates pumpkins a year after running over a trick-or-treater on Halloween.

Mti (29), a Haitian immigrant, after years of saving money during his stay in Chile decides to return with his wife and daughter in Haiti. However, his plans will be truncated by the unexpected theft of his money.

Ricardo levou suas filhas para sua casa à beira de um lago no sul do Chile. Enquanto navegam, eles avistam um barco afundando, mas ele se recusa a ajudar as pessoas porque elas parecem suspeitas.

Tony Martinez, a young man, returns to Costa Rica from a stint in a reformatory with the dream of break dancing and rejoining his working class community, while trying to avoid being drawn in by the local gangs.

Claudina é uma típica mulher do interior. Após a morte do marido ela cai em uma rotina solitária. Por conta de dificuldades financeiras Claudina tem que se mudar para a casa da filha Alejandra e de seu querido neto Cristóbal mesmo sabendo que o relacionamento entre as duas é um tanto distante. Já morando com a filha Claudina conhece sua vizinha Elsa uma mulher casada e independente que canta em um barzinho escondido chamado “Porvenir” (O Futuro). Claudina inicia uma relação com Elsa e se apaixona. A partir daí ela empreende uma jornada de autoconhecimento para tornar-se livre sob os olhos da filha e dos amigos em uma pequena cidade religiosa e conservadora obcecada com aparições de OVNIs.

Yun is grounded by her father for spending three days away from home for breaking family traditions. In her stoic nocturnal journey through the streets, malls and service centers, Yun experiences an accelerated maturity, of which she only realizes when she returns and faces her father.

Ana is a brilliant professor of forensic medicine who is preparing the next Chilean generation of doctors. She lives with her daughter Ursula, who has autism. One day, Ana’s name appears on TV, on a list of former agents of the dictatorship. Faced with harassment from her former colleagues and the police, Ana must protect what is most precious to her.

A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.

Three friends seek a more entertaining and fiery sex-life with their partners.

A murder in a remote Galician village brings to light the lowest instincts of its inhabitants.

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.

Two strangers have an intense casual encounter but later, both will realize that what has emerged is superior to pure physics, understanding that human relationships are more complex than a simple exchange of caresses.

Ten years after her daughter was the victim of a hate crime, brutally beaten in the streets of Santiago for being a lesbian, Nancy is asked to participate in an unsolved mysteries TV show that will recreate the incident. Nancy, a hairdresser who has worked very hard to move on with her life, will have to decide if finding justice for her deceased daughter is worth exposing herself and her family on television.

Alicia and Damian are ghosts occupying a large empty house on Lake Riñihue. Unable to assimilate their condition as dead people, they wander the house during an eternal day, gradually discovering the rules of this strange world and the reason for their presence.

Twelve-year-old Tamara lives within a cult that is ruled by the beliefs of its leader Miguel, who becomes obsessively convinced that Tamara is the "chosen one". But when she falls in love with a classmate, Tamara's relationship gets in the way of Miguel's objective, and he will seek her absolute obedience.

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.

Daniel Osorio will face his ghosts through the search of his only true love, the woman who left him because he was not able to settle down.

An unexpected guest interrupts a couple's last day together, transforming their peaceful farewell.

A young introvert man that has just go out his parents home is working in a café every day, where he carries out the eccentric practice of recording the conversations of certain clients. This voyeuristic attitude will be broken by the appearance of a curious and charismatic woman who lives a floor below his apartment.

Quando a morte acidental do filho de um casal os leva de luto em direções opostas, eles são forçados a reexaminar sua vida e casamento.

The expected return of the son for his father funeral shakes up a traditional and secretive familiar environment where women are supposed to count on men to survive as he shows himself turned into a female.

Derek and Giorgia, a young couple of biologists, settles in the hostile Tierra del Fuego to study and combat the devastating beaver plague that destructs the area. This violent mission is a unique scenario for their love story.

It's June 24 and the people of Lawan, a Mapuche community in southern Chile, are planning a big celebration for Saint John's Eve. Despite this, Cheo a restless and misfit kid, is not happy because this means the return of his father to the community. He is a violent man who, when he drinks too much, vent his anger with his family, unleashing in Cheo strong desires for revenge.

It's June 24 and the people of Lawan, a Mapuche community in southern Chile, are planning a big celebration for Saint John's Eve. Despite this, Cheo a restless and misfit kid, is not happy because this means the return of his father to the community. He is a violent man who, when he drinks too much, vent his anger with his family, unleashing in Cheo strong desires for revenge.

Daniela (Alicia Rodriguez) é uma jovem de 17 anos que teve uma rígida criação no seio da sua família evangélica. A rebeldia e a frustração, próprias da sua idade, leva-a a viver uma vida pautada por aventuras sexuais que são narradas em um blog. Uma dessas aventuras é descoberta e ela é expulsa do colégio. Como castigo, a sua mãe (Aline Kuppenheim), impõe que a jovem trabalhe numa emissora que produz programas gospel, onde ela conhece Thomas e Antonia . A relação com Thomas e Antonia, potencializará os questionamentos existenciais de Daniela, intensificando também as suas experiências individuais…

In the classroom of the first grade of the Mustafá Kemal Ataturk School located to the northeast of the city of Santiago, capital of Chile, about thirty children recite the numbers from one to ten in Mapudungun. Mapudungun is the language of the Mapuche ethnic group. The story is about the love, strength and endurance of these teachers in their tireless task of educating and transmitting the Mapuche language to the children at this school. This documentary shows the learning process of these children in their early school years, which transforms the classroom of the first grade into a special and magical place set in the middle of a peripheral village of the "big city", the capital of a country that is trying to pass a subject in which it has always failed.

Santiago is experiencing an endless heat wave. Tiare (27) and her friends get together at night at La Casona, Marce’s (52) bar. Tiare has a friendly relationship with Marce, who bit by bit will reveal to her the secret of the old house she lives in.