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PlaceChile
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The Summer of Flying Fish
2013
Manena is a very determined teenager, and the darling daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his lake. As he resorts to ever more extreme methods over the course of the summer, Manena experiences her...
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Illiterate
2013
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...
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Timoteo`s Fabulous Ragged Circus
2013
A gay circus has been touring around Chile for 40 years, setting up in cities and towns with its drag queen show. Created by the legendary comedian Timoteo, the circus is a refuge for a whole community, in which they also carry on their day-to-day lives feeling the acceptance of the clan led by...
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Much Better Than You
2013
In this urban comedy, Cristobal, a father and businessman, is forced to move to Spain with his family when his wife is awarded a scholarship. Humiliated by this, he disappears and wanders through the city of Santiago looking for sex. After a pathetic night filled with failures, he must choose...
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Caleuche: the Call of the Sea
2013
Isabel is a marine biologist from the United States, descending from a family from Chiloé, an island located in the south zone of Chile. Carrying a strange disease that has been getting worse through the years, she decides to travel to the island. In these magical lands, she witnesses supernatural...
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Seventy
2013
In the 70s, while Brazil was under military dictatorship, a group of 70 political prisoners involved with different organizations is sent to Chile in exchange for the release of the Swiss ambassador. This documentary locates the prisoners 40 years after their exile. Who are they? How do they face...
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The ABC of Love
1966
A Brazilian, Chilean and Argentine coproduction, the feature film consists in three segments that have love as the main theme. Eduardo Coutinho directs the segment "O Pacto". In the segment, Mário and Inez meet at a party. Mário is the typical follower of the “Jovem Guarda” movement, which...
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The Battle of Chile
1979
A three-part documentary, made from 1973 to 1979, which follows the events that preceded the fall of president Salvador Allende, in Chile. A work of political analysis, the film caused various problems for its five filmmakers: they were arrested by the Chilean police, and one of them - the camera...
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The Battle of Chile: Part II
1976
The confrontation between Allende`s supporters and his opponents reaches its most critical point. The population suffers from energy and food rationing, a result of the boycotts against the government. A transport strike paralyzes the country and opens the way for violence. The influence of the...
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The Battle of Chile: Part III
1979
On the sidelines of the confrontation between the Allende government and the opposition, the population organizes itself to find ways of survival, especially the popular classes, who supported the Allende administration. To create alternatives to the economic boycott and overcome the crisis, a...
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The Death of Pinochet
2011
On December 10, 2006, General Augusto Pinochet dies in Santiago’s Military Hospital. For 24 hours, his death reawakens the political divisions that marked Chile’s recent history with death and violence. Using original footage and the testimonies of four characters who lived through that day of...
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Amnesia
1994
Final dos anos 60, em Valparaíso, Chile. Ramirez encontra seu antigo comandante de um campo de concentração para presos políticos. Ramirez era um simples soldado, no entanto, sob o comando de Zuñiga, foi obrigado a matar diversos prisioneiros. Juntamente com o único sobrevivente do lugar, ele...
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Antofagasta, El Hollywood de Sudamerica
2002
During the silver cycle in Chile, in the twenties, three men have a dream: to make the city of Antofagasta into “Hollywood da América do Sul”. Of the nine Chilean films released in 1927, six were “Antofagasta” productions. Director Adriana Zuanic made a documentary on this short but...
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Antonia
2001
A beautiful, intelligent, and successful young woman, the director of an art gallery in Santiago, Chile, Antonia falls into a deep depression. When she finds she is pregnant by her boyfriend Sebastián, a dreamer and acknowledged photographer, she becomes worse and begins to re-think life. In fact,...
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Cachimba
2004
The adventures and misadventures of Marcos, a middle-aged banker whose only aspiration it is to have intercourse with Hilda, his naïve bride-to-be, is narrated in a tone that is half ironic comedy and part delirium. With this sole objective in mind, Marcos asks his beloved to accompany him for a...
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Desierto Sur
2007
Sofia is a young Spanish girl who loses her mother to an illness. An enigmatic letter falls into her hands, one that her mother sent to Chile when she was alive. The letter is returned by the post office when the recipient could not be found. The content of the letter raises stirring questions in...
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Drama
2010
Three theater students, influenced by a professor and French theorist Antonin Artaud’s acting technique, begin to experiment with their own lives, searching for real emotions and situations to bring onto the stage. Their obsession with becoming better actors leads them to their darkest sides,...
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The Sky, the Earth and the Rain
2008
The lives of Ana, Verónica, Marta and Toro, four lonely people living through the routine and silence of the south. They gather to eat, walk through the beach, take the ferry or simply accompany each other without needing to say anything. In a way, they try to save themselves in a silent, furtive...
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El Entusiasmo
1998
Chile, 1980: Guillermo, Fernando e Isabel se conhecem, se tornam amigos e defendem juntos o "República Independente" - um conceito utópico de um mundo melhor, concebido por Guillermo, como reação ao capitalismo selvagem imposto pela ditatura. Chile, 1990: a ditatura não existe mais. Fernando e...
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Gracias a la Vida – o la Pequeña Historia de Una Mujer Maltratada
1980
The story of a Chilean refugee, scarred by imprisonment and torture, illustrates the uprooting suffered by victims of the violence imposed throughout the history of Latin American peoples: at every moment, these individuals must redefine their positions in relation to the current reality in Chile.
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Huacho
2009
On a long day at the end of summer, four members of a southern Chilean peasant family struggle to adapt to the changing world in which they live in, a world where a video game or a new dress can be as precious as a liter of milk or a glass of wine. A new, global world where boundaries between...
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Julio Begins in July
1979
In 1917, Don Julio Garcia del Castaño, a powerful landowner, controls the lives of everyone who lives on his estate: from his son to the last laborer. Following ancient family rituals, he decides that it is time for his son to become a man. Thus, on the eve of the boy`s 15th birthday, Don Julio...
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Kon Kon
2010
Exploring the forgotten meaning of the ancient names, the documentary recovers an erased cultural memory and creates new bridges between the ancestral and the avant-garde. Con Con is located at the mouth of the Aconcagua River whose source is the glacier of Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the...
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The Good Life
2007
Santiago 2008. Teresa, Edmundo, Mário, and Patrícia are four city people whose lives cross each other mid horns blaring, brakes screeching, and the sounding of automobile burglar alarms, but that rarely draw close. Enveloped by the urban whirl, each pursues a dream: Teresa is a psychologist who...