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A relic of the Popular Unity period where we find a teacher talking to himself about the horror of the education system; the hard heartedness of the far right; the frivolity of the left; and a legion of the downtrodden. It is a film about verbal violence; life as a soap opera; and such dreams as mediocre movies are made on. Indecipherable to the world, but a Rosetta Stone for Chilean hieroglyphs.Read More »
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Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.Read More »
“With this film I returned to the world of Tres tristes tigres, to some people, in this case writers, who live in their own reality and believe that it is, in fact, Chile.” Raul RuizRead More »
Noticias is an observational film that using the fragmented format of a newscast program proposes a cinematic glance to the same reality depicted daily by the media. By means of a radical approach to journalistic and anti-journalistic facts, the film puts into play the ways in which collective truths are made.Read More »
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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2018
Democracy comes back to Chile during the summer of 1990. In an isolated community, Sofía (16), Lucas (16) and Clara (10), face their first loves and fears, while preparing for New Year’s Eve. They may live far from the dangers of the city, but not from those of nature.Read More »
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Packed to the brim with nudity and graphic gay sex scenes, Cola de Mono takes place on Christmas Eve in 1986 and follows a precocious teen who is put into some seriously compromising positions (literally and figuratively).
It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives – from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies. Title refers both to a eggnog-like drink popular in Chile during the holiday season and a homophobic slur about anal sex.Read More »
Alejandro, a first-year student and Sofia, a final thesis student, meet at the University and build a relationship in which he falls in love while she just wants to satisfy his sexual desires. Over time, Alejandro’s teenage behaviors will provoke the rejection of Sofia who must think about how to solve her future. In the end, everyone should discover what they really need.Read More »
During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vacation hours in nature, sleeping in the sun, learning how to drive, cleaning the house, kissing for the first time, swimming at night or just walking and talking, while the day slowly unravels into small fragments of happiness and discovery.Read More »
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Two children travel with their parents from Santiago Chile to the north of Chile for a family holiday. The landscape’s loneliness and the car’s confinement help bring out the couple’s troubles and the children learn that this might turn out to be their father’s farewell and their last family vacation.
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