My Grandmother's Mother Told My Grandmother

El Patinador Patinado

May 2024 •Spanish

Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací)

August 2000 •Spanish

Agüero is able to look at the scene in all it's complexity around architectonical brutality that Santiago de Chile underwent around the year 2000.

Patagonia Inlandeis Expedition

Invalid date •French

Puerto escondido

November 2020 •Spanish

In 1879, Bolivia lost its access to the sea in a war. When I was a child I did not understand how we had lost it; he thought the Chileans had taken him away in buckets. It is a diary towards interior landscapes, myths, characters and contradictions in a country that relives this loss every day.

The Color of the Chameleon

March 2017 •Spanish

During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert became an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who forced him to work for them in an extremely violent way. He was able to escape from Chile and became a war photographer based in Belgium. Today, his son Andrés takes him back to the places of his unfinished past.

The Revolt

January 2023 •Spanish

La Revuelta accounts for the tension experienced by those who, as of October 2019, came out to express their social discontent. The work has as its main stage, renamed by the people, as "Plaza de la Dignidad". It is a choral story, woven with the reflections of the protesters under the protection of the contextualization of a story in off that is unraveling the causes and effects of the outbreak. Thus, more than three years after the social demonstration, La Revuelta, is presented as a critical and contestative reflection, around the popular protest maintained by a people that took 30 years to awaken.

Campamento Sol Naciente

July 1972 •Spanish

El Guardián de Los Andes

June 2024 •Spanish

In the Shadow of Light

June 2023 •Spanish

Life in the isolated town of Charrúa is dominated by the presence of a large power plant that distributes energy to most of Chile. A little boy hunts rabbits, residents demand better electrical coverage at a town meeting, a woman waters the plants outside her house and a local radio station relays the day's happenings. At night, wildlife is captured on camera, along with strange bursts of light that momentarily illuminate a countryside criss-crossed with pylons and cables. And ever present is the insidious hum of electricity.

Trabantem až na konec světa

March 2014 •Czech

Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains

February 2021 •English

Travel to the ice mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma (aka panther, mountain lion and cougar) the area's largest predator. Discover how this elusive cat survives and follow the dramatic fate of a puma and her cubs.

Pinochet

June 2012 •Spanish

Documental about the Second Independence of Chile. Images and videos from the period before and after September 11th, 1973

Arica

November 2020 •Swedish

A Swedish mining giant, Boliden, is accused of having dumped 20000 tonnes of toxic waste in a poor neighborhood in a Chilean desert town.

¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?

January 1971 •Spanish

Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the nation.

Sons of Wood

September 2014 •Spanish

Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a group of inmates from the "Santiago 1" prison (Chile), to build a guitar.

Cien Años del Padre Negro en Atacama

February 2022 •Spanish

The Girl and The Tsunami

November 2021 •Spanish

February 2010. On a remote island in the Pacific Ocean called Juan Fernández, everyone slept in town. But a 12-year-old girl felt a tremor and warned of imminent danger.

Magma

August 2022 •Spanish

The visions experienced by a man in the midst of Chile’s social revolt lead him to revisit different moments of his life while his mind wanders through a limbo of images. The journey will help him to finally discover why he’s in that place.

San Pedro de Atacama

May 1964 •Spanish

Report on the town of San Pedro which exists in the middle of the desert and at over 2,430 meters above sea level. It also deals with the work of priest Gustavo Le Paige and the museum he helped develop.

Todos tienen algo Desierto

December 2011 •Spanish

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.