Patricio Alfaro
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Biography
Patricio Alfaro is a Chilean cinematographer.
Known For

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.
Everything at Once (Paco & Manolo's Gaze)

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.
Cola de mono

Alejandro, a freshman, and Sofia, who’s doing her thesis, meet in college. They build an asymmetrical relationship: he’s in love while she just wants to see her sexual desires fulfilled.
Kingdoms

For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.
Plants

Sofia is a vampire, she's prisoner of a chat program called SISTEMA ALMA, that forces her to use her career as a pop singer to attract teenagers yearning to be killed and give them death.
Potential Victim

Waiting for his big dream (a film role) to come true, Pablo works as a training actor in a patient-care programme at a medical faculty and a paid participant in group therapy sessions. To make ends meet, he sublets a room in his apartment in a suburb of Santiago de Chile. However, he seems to have lost control when his housemate departs, leaving him with rent arrears, a collection of plants, a dog, a woolly jumper, and... a house ghost. Pablo is 30, and when it comes to romance he is also chasing apparitions. He is secretly still in love with his ex-boyfriend, a popular YouTuber.
Phantom Project

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Feliz cumpleaños, Lucía
Inhabiting the intimacy of others allows one to look at oneself from a distance. Victoria is the secretary of the film school where José studies. Although they barely know each other, they exchange their life stories to embody each other's youth. The premise of this exercise in empathy was "if I don't dare to say it, let someone else say it for me".
Me gustaría que vivieras mi juventud de nuevo

Mauricia Saavedra is a poet and folk singer from central Chile who has been devoted to tradition since the age of 12. She has cultivated the transposed guitar and human singing, participating in festivals and gatherings that have taken her throughout much of the country. She defines herself as a "warrior woman": being a single mother and a lesbian has made her face violence and multiple difficulties, which, she says, she has been able to heal through singing. This documentary shows how she has decided to help other singers in their painful experiences. She learns to listen to them and connect them with their dignity, to transform the conditions of violence rooted in the dynamics of the Chilean countryside.
Yo no canto por cantar

In the context of Chilean education, for teenagers are forced to decide their future at an early age. Over the course of a year, we'll see how they can just have fun, while they await for the arrival to an unwanted destination.
If You Listen Carefully

An eight-year-old boy feels it is his duty to look after his younger sister at all times.