Coti Donoso

In the 80s during the military dictatorship in Chile, my uncle Jarda came from Europe, with a VHS camera. He brought the ashes of his mother, my great – aunt Edita. They said that she lost her mind, was a Trotskyist and Bauhaus Student. They did not want to talk about politics and religion. A dialogue between madness and sanity, certainty and uncertainty, neurosis and wisdom. Was Edita really crazy?

Juan Carlos is a lonko who has fought in defense of Mapuche autonomy. Many question him because he agreed to work for the government in order to improve conditions in his community. At home he shares his concerns, while his animals watch the tension grow and the seasons advance.

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.

Easter Island is the second-most remote island from a continent in the world, after the Tristan da Cunha archipelago. It is located in the Pacific Ocean 3,680 kilometres away from Chile (of which it is part), inhabited for centuries by a population of Polynesian origin (for whom its name is Rapa-Nui). Exploited by European colonisers from the 18th century onwards, visited by archaeologists, anthropologists and tourists attracted by the moai, the large tuff statues that people its coastlines, and filmed thousands of times, it has a stable population and an administration that manages the existence of the community, including justice. The presence, on this isolated territory from which escape is difficult, of a prison, even if it is a building without walls, is therefore a bizarre paradox...

Santiago de Chile is one of the cities with the most polluted air in the world. Alberto, a social leader and lawyer Luis Mariano Rendón are aware of this and try to make a change, in the middle of a capital that grows in an excessive way and which fundamental conflict is real estate speculation.

Santiago de Chile is one of the cities with the most polluted air in the world. Alberto, a social leader and lawyer Luis Mariano Rendón are aware of this and try to make a change, in the middle of a capital that grows in an excessive way and which fundamental conflict is real estate speculation.

Santiago de Chile is one of the cities with the most polluted air in the world. Alberto, a social leader and lawyer Luis Mariano Rendón are aware of this and try to make a change, in the middle of a capital that grows in an excessive way and which fundamental conflict is real estate speculation.

Santiago de Chile is one of the cities with the most polluted air in the world. Alberto, a social leader and lawyer Luis Mariano Rendón are aware of this and try to make a change, in the middle of a capital that grows in an excessive way and which fundamental conflict is real estate speculation.

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture, conversations with family members, a trip to southern Chile cities, and an actress who re-enacts the photo, we see the existing prejudice against indigenous people.

The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty years. Today his advanced age and health are reason for concern regarding the continuity of the show.

In the southernmost place in the world live the Yámanas, who survived and developed in one of the most inhospitable climates in the world. Today on the brink of extinction, its oldest survivors Úrsula and Cristina Calderón, invite us on a journey through its history, its myths, its language and its landscape. They are the last Footprint.

In the Juan Fernández Archipelago, 700 kilometers from the central coast of Chile, is Robinson Crusoe Island. There, a group of children who are in their last year of primary school will soon graduate, leaving the island where they learned to live.