Génesis
In an inner world suspended between oblivion and creation, a female figure moves through a dreamlike space where forgotten ideas take shape. Genesis is an experimental piece that explores the journey toward the origin of an idea — of oneself.
Hidden Beach
After an argument with his father, Tomás (26) leaves with his best friend Lucas (25) and other members of the ballet company to the family’s beach house. While living in Playa Escondida, Tomás indulges his desires by paying local men for casual sex, while also uncovering secrets about his family. When he decides to resume his career as a dancer, his activities are discovered, and his life takes a violent turn.
Valparaiso
In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.
Kill Pinochet
Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
The Vowel A
The story of Luisa Kiara Marabolí Barrientos a transgender woman, and her journey from living 44 years in obscurity under an imposed identity to becoming a proud social leader and role model in her community.
Fair
Buyers, sellers, people wandering. Toys and jewelry. Tools and cosmetics. Transactions and shouting. A wandering camera lost in the crowd contemplates the passing of a day at the fair on Avenida Argentina in Valparaíso.
Empty Jars
Twisting in from Chile, Guillermo Ribbeck’s phenomenal EMPTY JARS is a stylishly directed dark fantasy set in a decaying student residence where a woman (Ana Burgos, THE SEA) frees a ghost from a jar and works to find it a suitable human vessel to possess. Potent, inventive and wildly entertaining with a prankster heart and a melancholic soul.
Horn of Camahueto
After the social uprising in Chile in October 2019, Camilo el Hueto seeks refuge in Italy, attempting to escape the memories that haunt him. However, a letter will force him to return to his homeland, where he is no longer welcome, determined to get rid of that cursed horn once and for all.
La Vorágine
Kevin has no name
Kevin (14) is a teenager who escaped from a juvenile detention home (SENAME) in Valparaíso. Now, he wanders the streets of Santiago, trying to forget a crime he was accidentally involved in years ago. After learning about the death of a girl from the same institution, Kevin decides to return to Valparaíso to visit her grave. However, when he reunites with Jeremy (16), his former partner in crime, he is forced to confront his past and question whether a future is still possible for them.
Urbanites - You Can't Rewind The Years
When you listen to The Years, the debut studio recording from Urbanites, you're hearing a band in progress. They wanted to make The Years differently, and decided to record the album together, live, in the same space - Studio A of Electrical Audio in Chicago, Illinois. With the exception of limited overdubs, (vocals, drum ensembles and laptop atmospherics) each song represented one collective take, warmly captured to two inch analogue tape. This recording method embraced the mistake as much as the moment. They also chose to document the making of the record with a film, appropriately titled, 'You Can't Rewind The Years'. With a new understanding and years of progress to come, these longtime friends are making the music that they'd always hoped to. As they sing, in The Years' standout track Restless, "Not without trial, not without err - this brokenness is ours to share."
Buenos Aires al Pacífico
There was once, in 1910, a train able to cross the wild territories between Argentina and Chile, making possible a mythical journey, joining two oceans with a single ticket, from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. The last trip of the BAP was in 1979; in the nineties, its various branches were permanently abandoned. Since then, travelers have been inhabiting the railway landscape as they dream, desire, remember or yearn: as part of their own being and national history.
Ireneo de Valpo
El mar se mueve en una espiral
Photographic and sound story, through the encounter of characters with their stories of a time without end.