Chilean watchlist

In 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that. Or so it seems.

The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.

The expected return of the son for his father funeral shakes up a traditional and secretive familiar environment where women are supposed to count on men to survive as he shows himself turned into a female.

Sofia, 35, lives in Valdivia. She's beautiful and vegan. She has two kids she loves, but still everything seems to go wrong. In need of peace since her recent separation from her husband, she decides to take a reversed veil of silence: no more cell phone, TV, Internet or reading for a year. But peace doesn't occur. Following her example, her father leaves her mother. Her nasty sister comes back to Chile. Her kids become obsessed by meat. And Sofia discovers a disturbing secret about her dad.

Manena goes on vacation with her father, Francisco, to a part of southern Chile. She discovers that her father's obsession with catching all the carp in his artificial lagoon is making the local Mapuche tribe angry, so she has to stop him.

The story of the sisters: Justa, Lucía and Luciana Quispe, shepherds in the Chilean highlands who lead a solitary life.

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Jerónimo rent rooms and check people's belongings when they are not present. Sanna, an attractive Norwegian actress, enters his life and awakens something new in Jerónimo.

A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.

On September 11, 1973, the day of the military coup in Chile, a child prodigy of art disappears. His friend, a man fond of his art, tells the short existence of who could be a major genius of painting, decades after his disappearance.

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.

Alejandro Tazo, a 30-something Chilean, arrives at Nashville on a Greyhound bus from the West Coast. He has been mugged on board? Why is he here? How did he get here? What will he do in Music City?

A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.

A young couple are shocked to find a teen runaway collapsed in their abandoned rural home. Unable to leave her alone, they allow her to join them on a strange night as they recover a few family items, and try to come to terms with their individual situations.

The lives of four lonely people living through the routine and silence in the south. They meet to eat, walk through the beach, take the ferry or simply accompany each other without needing to say anything. In a way, they try to save themselves in a silent, furtive and extreme manner. They search for love, sex, inexistent family affection, and their own space and time, not only to distance themselves from the loneliness that intimately constitutes them, but, ultimately, to find themselves

What kind of secrets is this film talking about? There is a bit of everything: murder, robbery and treason. With seriousness and a dash of humour, Secretos reveals how, after a decades-long exile, a former left-wing militant returns to Chile to come to terms with his role in the death of a comrade and legendary socialist leader nicknamed the "Voice of the People." But the Chile he knew is no longer. Instead, he finds a country where even his old colleagues have changed their stripes.

October 5, 1974: In the suburbs of Santiago, pregnant Carmen is badly injured and her partner Miguel, head of the resistance against Pinochet's dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins a journey into the memories of the defeated...

The Recta Provincia is a kind of sect led by witches on the largest island in South America, the cradle of the founding myths of Chilean culture.

A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.

A film about a classical composer who goes insane.

Tila, a well-known rapist, is waiting his perpetual condemn while writing the story of his life in a high security prison. A journalist, obsessed with the case, looks for information about his suicide, which occurred a day before receiving his sentence. As she keeps on reading, the story turns into a journey through Tila's dramatic and violent memories. These memories, organized as fragmented images, make it difficult for her to define the present moment. The characters of his past appear around the prison and let him remember his crimes and places where he committed them like all of them happened at the same time. The journalist reads with passion and bitterness these events, like the tragic attainment of a destiny already known, where Tila could not escape. She seems to stay with him in his biography, as the surveillance cameras accompanied him before on his cell. One night at the end of the year 2013, a blackout happened in the jail, because of a car crash. When the light returns, Tila hangs in its cell, before the surprised glance of the guards. After his death only a lot of written papers, a pair of dirty shoes in a common moat and a journalist obsessed take this story to the public opinion, one of the most well-known chronicles in the Chilean police history.

Esteban travels Chilean's North along the highway following in Isabel's footsteps. His route takes him through different towns across a desolate and unknown Chile, to the very same places where Isabel had been, and where he encounters the same people she encountered. But as his adventure unfolds, its initial intention fuses together with that which comes up along the path. His journey becomes an end in itself, in a spectacle of characters and landscapes that are as unreal as they are real.

For years Jorgelino worked as an agent in the repression apparatus of the military government. Jorgelino was "el mocito," the one who served the cafecitos in the middle of a torture session, the one who packed the already inert bodies and loaded them into the coffers of cars. Jorgelino was recently accused of the death of Víctor Díaz, General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1976. This fact gives Jorgelino the opportunity to reflect on his history. The Mocito is the psychological portrait of a man destroyed by his past. A man who participated in the horror and crimes of the military dictatorship and today, in becoming aware of all this desperately seeks forgiveness and redemption.