Catalina Saavedra

Catalina Saavedra

Nascimento : 1968-01-09, Viña del Mar, Chile

Perfil

Catalina Saavedra

Filmes

History and Geography
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.
Problemista
Dolores
An aspiring toy designer’s work visa runs out, and a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
Rotting in the Sun
Vero
After filmmaker Sebastián goes missing in Mexico City, social media celebrity Jordan begins searching for him, suspecting that the cleaning lady in Sebastián’s building may have something to do with his disappearance.
The Punishment
An infant disappears from his parents sight in a misterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
La mirada incendiada
Valentina
Film inspired by the real story of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. Killed on July 2, 1986 during the first national protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Diablada
Rosaura Meneses
A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.
Crisis
Edith
Her work, her marriage, maternity, life itself… For Edith, everything has passed along without further questioning. As a cashier of a supermarket, she watches her days pass by between family and labor routine. Weeks, months and years she sees go by without even thinking. Suddenly, she discovers she is not happy. A conflict at work seems to synchronize with other thousands of sparks that set on fire the dry prairie of a society without hope. While Santiago starts to burn, Edith moves, bound for a change of life, no matter where destiny can take her.
La Mamita
Karina is 51 years old and is a regular trucker on the north route. Due to mechanical problems, he stops for the first time at "La Mamita" restaurant. The owner and cook of the restaurant, Marta, 63, welcomes her as kindly as any of her customers. However, the accidental discovery of a human hand in the garbage makes Karina see that all the stories this cook tells her are nothing more than a premonition of her destiny.
On My Own
Margarita
A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the other
Ema
Marcela
Ema é uma dançarina magnética e impulsiva em um grupo de reggaeton. Seu casamento tóxico com o coreógrafo Gastón acaba depois que ambos decidiram desistir do filho adotivo Polo. A missão de Ema é recuperar Polo, sem se importar com quem terá que enfrentar, seduzir ou destruir.
Marilyn
Olga
Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Marilyn by the other teenagers in town, Marcos is a target for desire and discrimination.
Un día cualquiera
Danisa
A story that highlights the charm of a chance and the magic of an unexpected encounter. A new opportunity to fall in love. 5 romantic stories.
Uma Mentirinha a Mais, Que Mal Que Faz?
Leontina
A small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for.
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye
Rosa
Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.
Mirage d'amour avec fanfare
1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love.
What we never said
Intimate story of a small family, starring Marian, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Di Mateo, who after several years of living in Mexico returns to his hometown Mendoza, because her father is dying; although the true intent of her return is to say what was sealed by the silence of the unspoken in an exemplary family as such as her mother claims to sustain.
The Simple Things
Penélope
Penelope is a civil servant who lives with her mother, who has Alzheimer's. One day she meets Ulises, a poor old man who has lost his memory and his identity papers. She convinces him that he is her father and he must come home to take care of his wife.
The Retiree
Gina
Fabiola returns to her homeland, province of Los Andes, to recover the affection of her family, after seven years of being away.
A Mulher de Barro
María
Maria vive com a filha, Teresa, a poucos quilômetros da fronteira entre o Chile e a Argentina. Dez anos se passaram desde a última vez em que Maria fez um trabalho sazonal. Ela decide aceitar esse serviço novamente, a fim de juntar dinheiro suficiente para ir morar com o irmão na capital. Ela não sabe, no entanto, que vai enfrentar seu passado não resolvido.
Natural Disasters
Valentina
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.
No Control in a Random World
School Principal
Three stories with surrealistic comedy elements: A Chilean kid who speaks only in German language; a man fighting with his mind about their way of living; and an old couple trying to solve a problem in silence.
Neruda: The Fugitive
Valparaiso Seamstress
The 1948 speech called "Yo Acuso" resulted in Pablo Neruda going under hiding for 13 months and the police searching intensively for him.
(09)
In 2012, three friends got together for a college assignment in a beach house. There was some sort of paranormal activity. What happened that day was recorded in their phones, but it wasn't authorized to be shown publically. Until now.
The Magnetic Tree
Carla
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local curiosity with strange properties, will awaken almost forgotten feelings and affections in the boy.
The Quispe Girls
Lucía Quispe
Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end.
Dog Flesh
Factory Worker
Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.
The Passion of Michelangelo
Irma
An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.
Caleuche: O Chamado do Mar
Aurora
Isabel (Giselle Itié) é uma biológa que trabalha com espécies marinhas nos Estados Unidos. Quando descobre sofrer de uma doença rara, ela decide voltar à ilha de Chiloé, no sul do Chile, de onde vieram seus pais. O local é marcado pelo desaparecimento de diversos pescadores, fato que os habitantes atribuem à lenda de Caleuche, um barco fantasma que transita naquelas águas em busca de novas almas. Quando chega à ilha misteriosa, Isabel começa a presenciar acontecimentos sobrenaturais ao seu redor.
Bahía azul
A teenager visits his mother in search of affection. She lives semi isolated from the world, on a house facing the sea and in the company of a woman. The meeting of both characters will be rather a disagreement that will throw the young man towards other characters that will be moving further away from his mother until he disappears. Only at that moment will she feel the weight of his absence.
Isidora
Isidora immerses itself, in the manner of a journey through time and space, in the life of Chilean playwright Isidora Aguirre (1919-2011) and in the main ones of her 30 plays, which are recreated on screen by outstanding actors. Mixing family archives, life diaries and interviews she gave at the age of 91, the film becomes the creative biography of the author of La Pergola de las Flores, her most famous work, and opens the door to the social and political issues she narrated in her theater, the utopias that could not be and the conflicts that are still ongoing in Latin America.
Jovem Aloucada
Converted Woman
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…
The Painting Lesson
Leontina
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.
Quiero entrar
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.
The 33 of San Jose
Sister
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Old Cats
Hugo
Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has.
Un nuevo baile
A Dançarina e o Ladrão
Ángel's Mother
Com a chegada da democracia, o presidente do Chile decreta uma anistia geral para todos os presos sem delito com sangue. O jovem Ángel Santiago (Abel Ayala) é um deles, mas agora ele está decidido a se vingar dos abusos sexuais que sofreu no cárcere. Além disso, ele planeja um ambicioso e arriscado assalto; para tanto terá de contar com a ajuda de Nicolás Vergara Grey (Ricardo Darín), um famoso ladrão de bancos que evita tal reputação porque busca reconquistar sua família. O plano parece perfeito, mas tudo se complica quando entra na história a bela Victoria, uma misteriosa bailarina cujos pais foram assassinados pela ditadura de Pinochet.
A Criada
Raquel
A introvertida Raquel trabalha como empregada para a família Valdés há 23 anos. Amargurada e comportando-se como um membro da família, passa a entrar em choque com a filha mais velha, levando Pilar, sua patroa, a contratar outra pessoa para dividir com ela as responsabilidades da casa. Sentindo seu posto ameaçado, Raquel expulsa a nova moça com terrorismo psicológico. Essa situação vai se repetindo até Pilar contratar uma jovem inexperiente do interior, Lucy, que se mostra a única capaz de romper a barreira que Raquel construiu em torno de si.
Secrets
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.
I Love You Mum
Carmen
A mother on the brink of blindness abandons her little daughter every day. The girl just wants to please her mother so it develops a macabre game to look like her. Until one day, the plan seems to have yielded results beyond all expectations.
31 Minutos - O Filme
Cachirula (voice)
Juanín é o produtor do noticiário de fantoches 31 Minutos, e é também o último da espécie dos juanines. Obcecada com a ideia de completar sua coleção de animais estranhos, a milionária malvada Cachirula captura e aprisiona Juanín em seu castelo.
Chile Can Do It
Magda
The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.
Life Kills Me
Chabela
Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a adventure that help them unearth the fragility and value of human existence
La Perra
A couple with an empty life make up a story about the new maid, in order to satisfy their own sexual obsessions.
No Place in Anywhere
No Place in Anywhere can deal with many issues. It is a personal journey through image and time. It is the portrait of the "La Matriz" neighborhood in Valparaíso. It is the encounter between reality and fiction. It is the constant search to find a truth within the documentary. It is a musical rehearsal. It is the constant preparation of a documentary. It is a documentary of questions more than answers. A silent face, an empty road, a winter landscape, the wind moving the leaves of a tree, a wall, the sea, the street of a neighborhood, all of them intend to "create through the record" a unique truth for each viewer.
Hasta en las mejores familias
Jessica
Dramatic comedy that raise questions through satire about the moral tradition of Chilean society, its dogmatism and sexual intolerance and the repressive nature of the country's traditional family.
Un Domingo de Julio en Santiago
A lawyer with addiction problems who can't handle his spoiled daughter, a young millionaire lacking paternal affection.and a man who is killed on the same day he finds true love are connected by the same fate that will bond them together on a Sunday in July in Santiago