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The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.
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From different conversations with relatives, writers and people close to José Donoso, the imaginary is constructed about the life, work and influences of the writer, to later follow his journey through the city by car while he remembers places, situations of his youth and evocations of his childhood.
A young Hispanic-Creole captain spends six months captive among the Mapuche, learning that the supposed “barbarians” were more human than the “civilized” ones.
In 1990, a teenager called Angel Cruz disappears tragically. Ten years later, her classmates that were involved with this accident start to investigate the mysterious causes of the vanishing.
A 5-year investigation which includes archive and press images, traces the tragedy of Antuco (2005), where 45 soldiers died due to hypothermia. Our protagonists tell us their consequences from their voluntary entry to the ranks of the army until its present 10 years later. In the middle of these stories we will see an experimental short that gives us the information of the physiological process of hypothermia.
After recognizing Jean as the hero of the previous night, Sofie and Nicole take him to the hostel where they are staying. Maikel, the assailant, calls Jean several times to steal the hostel. The only problem is that Jean always loses out in the robberies. That night will be different.
Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
Documentary about a Chilean Charles Bronson impersonator.
A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.
Pancho and José Santos, bandits from Teno, known by their fondness of tearing their enemies' faces, meet after four years for another robbery. After re-telling their adventures, they cross paths with Saturnino who has old accounts to settle with them.
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.
A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.
Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil rights to the Mapuche Indio people was approved. Raoul Ruiz listens to their painful stories.
Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.
"Dinamita" Araya is living the crudeness of normality in an uneventful life since he retired from boxing. A chance encounter with a woman brings him back to life. The other round now takes place on life itself.
Set in 1986, thirteen-year-old Luchito lives in a working class complex of apartment blocks in Santiago, Chile. He is obsessed with Manuel, a sixteen-year-old who lives in the building across from him.
Documentary about Carmen Bueno and Jorge Müller, who were taken by police on the chilean coup d'etat, and now are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.
A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion