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Browse 46 movies from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jun 2024
Antonia is celebrating her daughter Colomba’s birthday at her sister Angélica’s house when she hears that her father is on his way there. Antonia tries to avoid it, attempting to convince her sister to uninvite him due to a lawsuit against the man, yet Angélica insists on defending him. Between candles, candy, gift bags, and a piñata; Antonia ends up confessing a secret that she’d been keeping for years.
Aug 2021
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
Gabriel Borquéz, an adult man who lives alone in an isolated house, where he hides after shooting his little son in the woods. Guilt twists his reality, causing him to hallucinate and messing up events. His salvation is to leave his consciousness, represented as a hallway in his home. He fights against self-destructive situations that damage his physical body, but ultimately succumbs at the hands of a creation of his mind, a personification of death and himself.
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In some distant place in Patagonia, NAZARIO (46) takes a lamb to his lair, where he strips it of its meat and guts. After the butchering, he throws the animal's skin into the river, unaware that dark magic will make it reborn to take revenge in a card game, where Nazario's life will now be at stake.
Nov 2024
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
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
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
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
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
It's June 24 and the people of Lawan, a Mapuche community in southern Chile, are planning a big celebration for Saint John's Eve. Despite this, Cheo a restless and misfit kid, is not happy because this means the return of his father to the community. He is a violent man who, when he drinks too much, vent his anger with his family, unleashing in Cheo strong desires for revenge.
Aug 2012
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
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
Short film that narrates in an educational way the processes of developing wicker and clay crafts. The film is based on the experience of a character who tells a story to his nephews. Work carried out as part of the documentary series "Andanzas de un Chileno".
Sep 1966
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
Laura turns 21, but she is no more. Through a secret ritual, Violeta and her cousin Sofia (12) strive to communicate with her after her death. In her passage to adolescence, Violeta enters a world of goodbyes.
Apr 2023
With the memory of an online relationship he had with a girl in his teenage years, @YOU embarks on a journey in which he reflects on distance, love, fragility and the uncertainty of knowing the whereabouts of the girl who, a few years ago, said goodbye saying that she would end her life.
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
Samanta, a girl from the streets, lives with Profeto, a Peruvian immigrant who adopted her as his own daughter. One night, Profeto tells Samanta that his wife and daughter have arrived to Chile to live with him. Their presence threatens Samanta’s permanence so she starts to despair and act self-destructively, trying to call Profeto’s attention and not lose her recently found home.
Feb 2014
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