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Browse 46 movies from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
A non-binary folk watches the handover of the first non-binary ID in the history of Chile. As they try to do the paperwork, they will face the bureaucracy of the legal proceeding.
Oct 2024
Manuela (14) and Toña (15) are caught in their school bathroom giving each other a hickey. After being suspended for the day, both embark on a journey through desire, guilt, and goodbyes in the city's outskirts.
Jun 2024
A man secludes himself in the forest with his cat. The ghosts of his past begin to torment him, being forced to face his fears and guilts in a try to not be consumed by madness.
Sep 2025
Lucía (16) reunites with her sister Ema (17) after years apart. A journey through their rural birthplace brings present and past together, leading them to a difficult truth.
Aug 2024
Jaime, who’s been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house on the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse’s darkness.
Aug 2007
Two women are traveling through a coast road, evading the pain left behind. The trip is interrupted when they see an old lady running at one side of the road, in front of the car. This encounter marks the beginning of the rest of their lives.
Dec 2007
Igor has a secret that he doesn't want Nicole knew: he doesn't want to reveal that he is a victim of bullying, This implies a strong fight between them for his intentions about his secret.
Jun 2020
Francisco (21) discovers that his brother Tomás (26) has been accused of sexual abuse through social networks. As Tomás's birthday approaches, Francisco will have to make a decision regarding the accusation.
Feb 2022
Hannah is a young autistic woman who is about to be expelled from her university, after her partner Fernanda accused her with Professor Miranda for inappropriate attitudes.
Aug 2021
In a fishing village contaminated by a thermoelectric power plant, Mecha (33) is the grieving soul of an environmental activist who died under suspicious circumstances. The day after his death, she tries to reconcile with her son Juan (16) and to make him take charge of her memory.
Aug 2022
In the middle of a blackout, the night before his father's funeral, Felipe arrives at his mother's house after a nine-year absence. There he waits with his sister, his aunt and the maid, with a dinner made especially for him. Although Felipe only is coming for a short time, his mother and sister will draw him back to the house he once left.
Oct 2010
Chile, 2038. Revival is the technology of fashion. A virtual reality device that allows people to relive moments of their past, as if they were living it again. Émile, a young Haitian who is collecting money to bring his mother from Haiti, discovers that someone from his job in a vineyard is interfering with his memories in his revival. Searching for answers, Émile discovers the disturbing truth that was hidden.
Aug 2019
Demoni through a performative act reflects on the musical genre shoegaze, from the deformation of the image and the distortion of the audio to generate its own chaos that leads to a comment on cultural hegemony in Chile.
Aug 2025
In a dystopian Chile, during Pascual's birthday (18), his friends come up with a game: to do a panty hunt in the building where the single women have just arrived. Pascual cheats to avoid hurting a woman and is discovered by the 19-year-old Zángano, who threatens him by telling him that if he doesn't hurt a woman, he will hurt his younger sister Olivia, aged 12.
Mar 2020
José Luis (19) works at a gas station. There he meets Amaro (48), a wealthy client with whom he initiates a sexual and emotional relationship. José Luis falls in love with him and receives his financial support, not knowing that he maintains this type of relationship with other boys like him
Jun 2019
Photographer Patricio Guzmán Campos has died in exile. Silvia edited his retrospective book a few years ago and after learning about Patricio's death, she sits down to read again the letters he sent her, in which he reveals the feelings and reflections provoked by facing his photography during the process of making the book, where he sees a place that has been taken away from him, but which he tries to hold on to through his memories.
Dec 2021
Free adaptation of the tale Mrs. Snow by the Grimm Brothers represented by children from the biggest illegal settlement of Santiago. An orphan must go rescue an embroidery when she is transported to the magical world of Mrs. Holle. The girl works for her for a while, shaking pillows and blankets to produce snow on Earth. After some time, the girl decides to return home and Mrs. Holle rewards her with gold. Arriving home, her stepsister imitates her in an attempt to get the same reward, but she behaves lazy and rude, which results in her being grounded. All roads lead to the common zone, but each reaps what it sows.
Oct 2023
Mar 2016