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Simon is 21 years old. He introduces himself as a mover's helper. He claims not to know how to cook or clean the bathroom, but he does know how to make a bed. Recently, he seems to have become a different person…
Oct 2024
Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.
May 2026
On a remote island in the South of Chile, a solitary woman rescues an abandoned puppy, forging an unlikely bond that forces her to confront deep resentments, fractured relationships, and a trauma that refuses to stay in the past.
Celeste is a carefree 15-year-old coming of age after the fall of Pinochet when her life changes drastically and unexpectedly. Now, the desert and oceanside she once embraced feels alien. In an uncertain nation going through a transition of its own, Celeste is thrust into an adult world where she must grow up faster than she could have ever imagined.
Sep 2025
Despite his deformed body, a small, immobile man is the best Belgian Malinois trainer in the country. He lives with his nurse and his twenty dogs trained to kill. The arrival of a young soldier, sent by the National Army, destabilizes the delicate balance of power that kept the house standing.
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Ximena is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy as a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to be an almost impossible task, till one day, Jackeline finds something Ximena has been keeping as her only treasure since she was a child: a letter Ximena's father left when he abandoned her many years before. Thus, the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover that there are many ways of being illiterate, and that not knowing how to read is just one of them.
May 2014
An 18-year-old plumber living in a small suburban town feels haunted by the accidental death of his best friend. When he meets Isaac, a Romanian fairground worker who stops in the village for a few days, he tries to recreate the relationship he lost.