Directing
Sayen is hunting down the men who murdered her grandmother. Using her training and knowledge of nature, she is able to turn the tables on them, learning of a conspiracy from a corporation that threatens her people's ancestral lands.
Eight people meet the famous Chilean radio host, "El Rumpy," and tell him about their love or heartbreak experiences. Be it a drama or a happy ending, there is a song that is part of the story, and the story is part of the song.
Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.
An Argentine artist moves to Chile in search of a more stable life and a possible future for his profession. Thanks to his talent and arrogance will go far, but not for long...
Santiago de Chile, 2012. When she goes back to classes at her all-girls high school, Alexandra (17) does not want to face reality: neither the failure of a year of mobilization nor her early pregnancy. Going from utopia, where politics is handled between women, to the repetitive domestic character of her home is a radical change. Alexandra sees her dreams fading away, and her self-destructive ghosts coming back to her again.
Partly a symphony of a city, partly an experimental film and, to some extent, a fake documentary. A set of images show the centre of Santiago at night, to retrace the steps of an absent an anonymous character. Different background voices try to describe this person through unconnected stories and they often contradict each other. The result is the vague reconstruction of an absent man. He is a stranger who embodies a déclassé and careeism character rooted in the depths of Chilean society. A desire to exercise power over the rest shown through different forms of violence.
A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.
A stolen phone, bad decisions and many acts of clumsiness will force three neighbors from Gran Avenida – an area in the south of Santiago – to face each other.
Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.
Cristina has spent her life taking care of her mother Carmen. Single and without a trade or friends, she grows older, year after year in her hometown. A few days from her birth- day, Cristina reconnects with Sandra, a former schoolmate who will show her other ways to live, freely and without prejudice.
