Rodrigo Orellana

A pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals.

A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.

'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

With first-person accounts, the documentary narrates the educational project that the Fundación Eva Perón launched in 1951 and that the 1955 coup d’état tried to erase. Today, those young students who were summoned review their history

Since his childhood, Juan Chico has known that his community hides stories marked by pain. Born in the heart of the Chaco mountains into a Qom family, he left his job as a bricklayer to investigate the causes of this silence, starting with a question: ‘Why don’t I speak my mother language? This question leads him to discover a series of historical events that beg to be unveiled until he transforms the silence of his peers into an unstoppable tide of voices that challenges an entire nation.

This docu-fiction narrates the difficult obstacles that the student and political movements had to go through to achieve a unique achievement on the American continent: that all the inhabitants of the nation can access higher education freely and without fees.