Don Carmelo
Bombo Fica faces two realities: one of success and fame and the other of failures and misadventures.
Pablo
As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
Waiter Picoroco
A man takes his insecure, overweight paramour to a seaside resort to consummate their relationship, but there he stumbles onto an artistic discovery that will change his life.
Mario Padilla
After an accident that left her in terrible conditions Rosicler, a former starlet, is being taken care by an old man. While she dreams of dancing again, he only wants her to accept reality.
Abel
A surreal Chilean road movie in which two wanderers come across an assortment of oddballs.
Workshop Chief
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.
Father
A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.
Cabdriver
A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.
In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.
El Jefe
The extreme poverty produced by unbridled neoliberalism in Pinochet’s Chile is an allegory for the disappeared. Based on a play by Juan Radrigán.
A family obsessed with their recent acquisition of a huge color television, postpones the health of one of their daughters. While they worry about locating the device in their tiny home, the daughter's condition worsens and the attention of her illness is delayed until the end of the TV payment.
