Sebastián Arriagada

It's Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. Both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller, this is a story about the ways that passion and desire control our lives—from pop-culture tastes to sexual fantasies.

Paco and Manolo are two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona who have been working together for thirty years as if they were a single person, capturing their images in Kink magazine, a very personal photography fanzine with a homoerotic aesthetic of Mediterranean essence.

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was shot; and its impact on the life of several people from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay related to film industry.

Ariel Roth is a 30-something graphic designer. He feels close to his Mac, his apartment and riding his bike at night. Ariel doesn't want too much out of life. Is that too much too ask?

Recuerdocs is an exchange of video letters between four filmmakers from Argentina and Chile. United by friendship and by the question of cinematic form, the filmmakers reflect on cinema, images, and their personal lives.

The film deals with the unforeseen effects generated by a young writer's suicide.

Cousins Lenin and Jonás never had contact in 15 years. Lenin made a fortune as drug dealer. Jonás was formed as a religious pastor, but in the shadow of his father. Both join forces to form a new religious sect: the Transprofética Church.

Exequiel is a physical education teacher who lives with his father in San Antonio at the same house in which he was born and raised. His life hasn't advanced much ever since, but the re-encounter with an old love and other struggles of life will make him reconsider his future and, especially, his past.

Alejandro Tazo, a 30-something Chilean, arrives at Nashville on a Greyhound bus from the West Coast. He has been mugged on board? Why is he here? How did he get here? What will he do in Music City?

While walking with her camera on a random street, the director experiences a casual encounter with a stranger who asks her to be portrayed. After several interviews, the mysterious disappearance of that woman becomes a source of obsession for the artist behind the camera..

The Monkey with Its Tongue Out is an essay that interweaves personal memory, historical narrative, and philosophical reflection, using the zoo as a metaphor for the Technocene. Through a combination of documentary images and artificial intelligence, the work offers a critical look at the aestheticization of the artificial and new forms of observation mediated by algorithms.