Spanish

After the death of his father, Piedad directs her family life by virtue of tradition and moral values in a small town in the provinces.Read More »

Los días perdidos’ was a 40-minute medium-length film about a Spanish emigrant woman working in Paris who returns to Spain after the death of her father. The succession of certain events makes her aware of the uprooting of her entire sentimental life.Read More »

Carlos Saura’s peculiar take on the origin of art. The acclaimed and multi-award winning director, with more than 50 films to his name, portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas from the first graphic revolutions of the prehistoric caves to the most avant-garde urban expressions. A thrilling and personal journey in the company of figures including Juan Luis Arsuaga, Miquel Barceló, Zeta, Musa 71 and Suso 33.Read More »

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 »

In México City, a Cuban dancer from “Cabaret Changó” rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way.Read More »

Nicolás Zukerfeld’s feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the vast oeuvre of pantheon auteur Raoul Walsh, before suddenly reinventing itself as an essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability.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 »

Pedro and Sol are two best friends that coming to age. Their personal paths drive them thru different directions. He’s interested in writing theatre, she’s training as piano player.Read More »

Teresa, 42, changes her vacation plans to spend the summer with her mother, Ani. The forced coexistence of living together after so many years brings tension as well as revealing moments for the two women accustomed to living alone.

2 wins, 1 nomination.Read More »