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Browse 26 movies from Escuela Nacional de Cine
In the midst of gender transition, Verónica runs away from home in search of a new beginning and finds refuge with her cousin Alex. As she navigates her new life, actress Israel, who plays Verónica, faces her own personal journey during filming.
Jun 2026
On her first student film shoot, Camila, the director, discovers that her boyfriend, Miguel, an actor, is cheating on her with his co-star. Upon learning of the infidelity, Camila questions her relationship with Miguel and her passion for filmmaking.
Apr 2025
Chiche is an ingenious and creative man who finds a strange rock, which he believes to be a fragment of a meteorite. Despite the little hope his family has in his projects, Chiche decides to bring it to an expert to determine its true origin.
Apr 2024
In the middle of a night of drinking after their father's funeral, two estranged brothers decide to travel to a town on the outskirts of the city. As they descend further into oblivion, the ghosts of their past begin to materialize.
May 2026
A greengrocer tries to save the radio device that kept him company for most of his life. His pilgrimage through the streets in search of a solution confronts him with a city that has resigned itself to the disappearance of life forms and the loss of scenes from the past in memory.
Jan 2021
A wife suspects that the building she lives in hides a secret out of this world.
Apr 2026
Two brothers enter the immensity of a mountain to search for their lost father.
Jul 2024
Locked in home during a blackout, mother and daughter argue in front of a candle flame. One holds on to the past, the other worries about the future. The melody of a song protects them from the shadows waiting in the dark, as they prepare to face an important decision that could change their lives.
A delirious Balloon Vendor sings "Happy Birthday" to his peculiar companion. Upon discovering that she is hiding the balloons he intends to give her, he questions whether their connection is genuine affection or an escape from reality.
Feb 2026
A quiet yet mischievous girl secretly admires her older cousin and, after slipping away from the younger kids, decides to spy on her in hopes of finding answers.
Five stories, five perspectives on the same emotional territory called “country.” A Cuban actress tries to make her way in Chile; two women reunite after decades and confront the passing of time; another survives in solitude while facing her fears; a father and son seek reconciliation amid old wounds; and a birth turns into a desperate race for life. Five intertwined stories—small tales of love, loss, and hope—forming an intimate mosaic about identity, belonging, and the search for a place in the world.
Dec 2025
A young man with personality problems abandons his only friend when he connects romantically with someone.
Jan 2024
A young man tries to save his relationship with his father before their differences lead them into an abyss of no return.
Mar 2023
A young woman faces the reality of living with her drug-addicted mother. Her world is shattered when she returns home and runs into the dealer who supplies her mother, forcing her to make the decision to confront the demons that consume her.
Babi is about to move out without telling her mother. When she discovers the suitcase, it mysteriously disappears in the night.
Mar 2025
An old man travels to the city in search of a book. After a long journey, he returns to his town empty-handed and resumes his strange routine.
Apr 2023
After her grandmother's death at the hands of COVID, Lola becomes increasingly desperate and decides to hide her body at home to prevent it from being taken away.
Carolina, makeup the corpse of a man, thus she enters a trance that allows him to maintain his composure in the face of pain while continues the routine.
Dec 2020
A confectioner prepares the cake for a party to which she hopes to be invited.
Jun 2022
A young woman named Island immerses himself in the nostalgia of the absence of her boyfriend who emigrated, moves to the abandoned house of her family and tries to adapt to the new place while facing the deterioration of the house and the chiaroscuro's of loneliness.
Feb 2024