Chile

This is an unusual film by Helvio Soto who is best known for the remarkable political and historical dramas he made before and after going into exile following the 1973 coup in Chile. Made just before Raúl Ruiz’s Tres tristes tigres with some of the same crew, the film shares some elements of style but couldn’t be more different in terms of tone. It is a romantic comedy about two university students (pre-med boy and art girl) from the countryside falling in love in Valparaiso. The film displays a lot of the brilliance of subsequent films by Soto (as well as those by the film’s editor, Carlos Piaggio and its assistant director, Silvio Caiozzi) and represents a very rare attempt in Chile at the free and hip kind of romantic comedy of the late 1960s.Read More »

An early film by Marilú Mallet (as Maria Luisa Mallet) created for the Education Ministry’s Department of Culture under Allende’s Popular Unity government.

The film combines images with intertitles that present the disparity in land distribution, economic opportunity, and civil rights between the indigenous Mapuche people and Chilean Whites/Mestizos.Read More »

Ana and Diego move to Chile’s coast. Diego secretly starts relationship with Vicente. Ana considers opening up to non-traditional relationship dynamics.Read More »

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Daniela is a petite, pretty teenager raised in the bosom of a strict and well-to-do evangelical family in Santiago, Chile. Daniela is also a 17-year-old who finds that her raging sexual drive is difficult to reconcile with the orders of her religion. With no outlet for her desire, Daniela taps into a rampant underground network of other horny teenagers through her sexually charged blog. As she types the gospel of her life as a fornicator online, Daniela still goes to church and prays to Jesus, “Lord, see to it that Mother doesn’t type youngandwild.blogspot.com!”Read More »

Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar to that of other families. But not everyone sees it that way.Read More »

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On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organization of sorcerers.Read More »

A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.Read More »

A taxi driver meets Marlene, a girl from the provinces who´s lost in a brothel. He immediately decides to protect her and let´s her stay in his house. Slowly his fatherly instincts give way to a strange hidden passion. Finally he gives up living in the trunk of his taxi while Marlene states that she wants to live with him forever.
El zapato chino is the first long feature by Christian Sanchez. It was made during the Pinochet dictatorship and tries to capture the surreal and confusing atmosphere of that period. It was realized i in a clandestine way, but it is said that Pinochet himself wanted to see the film after it´s completion.Read More »

Released in three parts, Patricio Guzman’s epic documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-’79) captured such critical events as the bombing of the presidential palace during the 1973 military coup, but it wasn’t screened in Chile until the 1990s. That belated premiere inspired Guzman to make this 1997 documentary, in which clips from the earlier film are threaded among interviews and powerful sequences showing the reactions of Chilean viewers. Whereas The Battle of Chile uses voice-over narration to summarize its on-the-spot footage, manipulated only minimally by editing, Chile, Obstinate Memory is more expansive. Without ignoring or hyperbolizing the way politics affects our sense of the past, it presents many galvanizing moments; at one point a viewer who was a child during the coup shamefacedly recalls his pleasure at being allowed to stay home from school.Read More »