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Felipe Gálvez

Felipe Gálvez

Directing

Biography

Felipe Gálvez Haberle (born in 1983; Santiago) is a Chilian director, screenwriter and editor. He graduated from the Universidad del Cine, where he participated in several short films as an editor. He directed five short films. Standing out among them are Silencio en la sala, which participated in several international festivals and received the Bafici Best Short Film Award (2009), and De lo primitivo, a video performance which was exhibited in art galleries and cultural centers. His recent short film Yo de aquí te estoy mirando, received support from the Audiovisual Fund in Chile. He currently resides in Santiago, where he obtained a degree in Documentary Film and works on his first feature film.

Known For

The Settlers
6.8

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

The Settlers

2023
You'll Never Be Alone
6.3

When his cross-dressing teenage son suffers a brutally violent attack, a mannequin-factory manager desperately seeks help and, when none can be found, is forced to take matters into his own hands.

You'll Never Be Alone

2016
Princesita
5.9

Twelve-year-old Tamara lives within a cult that is ruled by the beliefs of its leader Miguel, who becomes obsessively convinced that Tamara is the "chosen one". But when she falls in love with a classmate, Tamara's relationship gets in the way of Miguel's objective, and he will seek her absolute obedience.

Princesita

2017
The Future
5.2

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

The Future

2013
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A former spy is tasked with preventing the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s escape after his arrest in London sparks international tensions.

Impunity

In the Grayscale
6.2

Bruno is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in Santiago city. Motivated by this professional challenge, Bruno feels he can find a twist in his life by a vocational route. He start working with a young history teacher named Fer who is agile, energetic, captivating and gay. Starts between them an unexpected and intense romance. At this point he must decide his path. The biggest learning: simplicity is the best way to get up again.

In the Grayscale

2015
Marilyn
5.4

Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Marilyn by the other teenagers in town, Marcos is a target for desire and discrimination.

Marilyn

2018
Here in Lisbon
5.0

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

Here in Lisbon

2015
Five
5.3

Five sex-themed stories: Story 1: At night, while waiting at the central bus station of Retiro, a man meets an adolescent girl, Reneta at the bus station. They go to a cafe and begin a conversation about sex that will prove to be deeply disturbing. Story 2: Walter, an adolescent boy will discover a new interest in his sister's boyfriend, Platero while they are fooling around on their bunk bed. Story 3: Virginia and Pablo maintained a loving relationship for some years; she is still in love but he is not the man she met. Story 4: Gustavo, a 40-year-old Argentinean married to an American woman living in the USA longs for his sex life in Buenos Aires stimulated by photos of Argentinean teenagers on the Internet. Story 5: A well-built married office employee has sexual fantasies about the women working in his office.

Five

2010
The Last Land
4.2

In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.

The Last Land

2016
Land Tides
N/A

Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.

Land Tides

2015
The Great Movement
5.9

A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.

The Great Movement

2022
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Alejo writes a story about a young man who wants to make his life with a lotus flower shop. Oh well, a young man wants to make his life with a lotus flower shop while writing a story. Alejo's story in a double sense: what he writes and what he is.

Nothing But Thin Air

2010
Be quiet, please
N/A

A child delays his arrival at school. After not being able to enter class, he waits for the bell to ring.

Be quiet, please

2009
The Territories
6.0

After the attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, Ivan, the frivolous son of a prominent Argentine journalist, embarks on a journey pursuing different geopolitical events around the world.

The Territories

2018
Zoológico
6.0

Three adolescents are immersed in a totally Americanaized reality in present day Chile: suburbs, malls, the Internet, pornography, violence, and angst in the most well-off neighborhood in Santiago.

Zoológico

2013
Viral
8.0

GLEISDREIECK is a story about love, its different forms and the lies that are told in its name. In an austere audiovisual style, where the story unfolds supported by the performance of its three characters. Two very different departments located in opposite parts of Berlin, which Hedda visits to Petra and Zazie.

Viral

2012
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A young aficionado of paranormal experiences attempts to reconstruct the previous moments of what could have been one of these episodes. High-tension cables, a forest, an abandoned church, a barefoot woman: Past, present and future become confused, and in this dissolved reality, he is not sure to have found what he was looking for.

Partir to Live

2012
Los Barcos
N/A

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.

Los Barcos

2016
Raptor
6.0

Ariel gets involved in a teenager's civil arrest, who is accused of stealing a phone. A mob surrounds the young man and some curse and beat him, some defend him. The police isn't showing up. Ariel has to decide what side he is on.

Raptor

2018