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Browse 11 movies from Escuela de Cine Universidad de Valparaíso
Sep 2024
Apr 2015
Manuel has spent almost half his life behind bars and is facing his release. Of the crime he committed we are not sure. Dark and solitary in nature, his only hope is to get closer to his only daughter. However, in his transit through Valparaíso he meets Nico, a young man who prostitutes himself with older men, who welcomes him and decides to help him.
May 2016
Chile, 1974. A mother, her son, and a couple of men take refuge in a rural mansion, fleeing from a past marked by fear. The unexpected arrival of the brother-in-law, in search of his missing brother, shatters the fragile stability of the place. While tensions and isolation grow, the mother begins to destabilize, dragged by uncertainty and fear. The couple, faced with the risk, must make a decision that could change everything.
Aug 2025
A trip to Wallmapu, Chile, is part of the first meeting with Mapuche communities, through various stories we will know the relevance of the Machi for the community, who is the political and religious entity of the culture.
Oct 2017
Mirna and Pablo start a friendship framed in reflections about identity, loneliness and death during the 90's in Chile. A story about fellowship and HIV/AIDS, inspired by the literary work of Pedro Lemebel.
May 2019
Oct 2024
When she hears other children playing, a 6-year-old girl tries to leave the house, but the closed door forces her to decide whether to wait for her mother or invent her own game to regain her freedom.
Dec 2025
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In recent years, the Marga Marga Province has witnessed a drastic change in the visual and sound landscape due to urban expansion. Faced with the observation and the need to explore the territory that seems more and more alien and less and less our own, the film functions as a material resource and support for plastic reflection on living in the midst of capitalist progress.
Oct 2021
The filmmaking team returns to the port of San Antonio, their hometown, to learn more about a UFO sighting that occurred in the mid-1980s. This search is proposed as an urban tour through the port city, capturing various experiences around this event. This will finally make the investigation take a revealing turn.
Oct 2020