Chile

It will tell the haunting story of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ties that bind a parent to a child.Read More »

1982. As an unknown disease begins to spread in a small mining town in the Chilean desert, gay men are accused of transmitting it through their eyes. Twelve-year-old Lidia, the only girl in the community, sets out in search of the truth.Read More »

Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails.Read More »

1982. As an unknown disease begins to spread in a small mining town in the Chilean desert, gay men are accused of transmitting it through their eyes. Twelve-year-old Lidia, the only girl in the community, sets out in search of the truth.Read More »

A psychological thriller following Paula and Paulina’s final day together in their summer home. The arrival of an unexpected guest interrupts their intimate farewell, triggering a shocking transformation that reveals the darkest recesses of the human mind.Read More »

Malena Szlam’s magnificent follow-up to Lunar Almanac employs superimpositions and other effects to recast the lakes, salt flats, and volcanic deserts of Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina as psychedelic, otherworldly landscapes.Read More »

A wealthy Chilean landowner is used to having powers within his domain which would not surprise a feudal lord in Spain in the 14th century. In this story, set in 1917, Julio Garcia Castano is preparing to celebrate his son’s 15th birthday by inviting a selection of local whores to vie for the privilege of initiating him into sexual manhood. His plans go awry when the boy (who is also named Julio) and one of the prostitutes fall in love with each other. With a ruthlessness that would put a Borgia to shame, he ends the relationship. He also has a boundary dispute with a nearby Franciscan monastery, which he solves with similar dispatch. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie GuideRead More »

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Chronogram is a photomontage that explores stillness, motion, and memory. Using a 35mm still camera, multiple exposures were composed and edited in-camera, creating frameless sequences of images printed on 35mm filmstrips. When projected, these images become a non-linear, non-synchronized collage. The ephemeral quality of the images-their transparency, layering, and repetition-invites us to reflect on the role memory plays in perception, the ways we mentally reconfigure fragments to construct stability and meaning in an environment of perpetual flux. – by Malena SzlamRead More »

Jewish life in Poland before World War II. The Vladimir Medem Sanatorium stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.Read More »