Chile Movies

A moving portrait of Chilean singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara (1932-73) that chronicles the life of the talented artist who was im...

This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when in...

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized economy undertaken in Chile during the presidency...

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postc...

Religiosity is an immaterial wealth that preserves the identity of a people. Documentary filmmaker Patricio González Colville searches for the ancestr...

In 1879, Bolivia lost its access to the sea in a war. When I was a child I did not understand how we had lost it; he thought the Chileans had taken hi...

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

The house of the director has a door out to the sidewalk. This gate separates the inside from the outside. The interior contains the filmmaker's perso...

The death of his newborn brother will cause a child from the poor neighborhoods of Santiago to walk around the city with the lost cardboard wings that...

A young man travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit and to fulfill the...

Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard,...

This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.

The documentary portrays the desires and ftures of four young people from the third year of secundary education in Chile. Two of them attend the indus...

Can you imagine a water market? A market where owners of water stock would buy and sell, while others would profit on its price without needing it? Wh...

Two shoeshine girls and a newspaper vendor survive in the Mapocho neighborhood of Santiago. While looking for better luck, Maruja becomes involved wit...

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile.

A Swedish mining giant, Boliden, is accused of having dumped 20000 tonnes of toxic waste in a poor neighborhood in a Chilean desert town.

In this documentary film a team of researchers examine the social contexts that influenced the emergence and permanence of heavy metal music in Chile,...

Rüdiger was a child, Aki two months old and Kurt, the deputy of the pedophile leader of the sect. In 1961 they came to Chile together with 500 other G...