Daniela Camino

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

Yermén is a transsexual woman in her mid-thirties that works as a tarot reader, and lives in the emblematic low-income neighbourhood of La Victoria. Looking for a sex reassignment, she decides to try for a plastic surgery TV show, where she will meet an enigmatic immigrant who wants to get an operation to look like Naomi Campbell.

After 17 years working as a street prostitute in New York City, undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa reunites with former college classmate Nicole, the director of this film. Through their creative bond, Monalisa re-flourishes as a transgender performer and writer, in the search for identity and legalization.

While a gamer uploads a testimonial video to denounce the harassment she suffers in a video game, a stranger enters her home and hacks her computer, blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.

In 2019, a nationwide movement forms in Chile to create a new constitution. For three years, the film accompanies indigenous, feminist, militant, legalistic, anarchist and conservative activists. A timely large-scale canvas of democratic protest.

The inhabitants of Maria Elena, the driest place on Earth, were chosen to be the first to colonize Mars. The people are torn between the decision to leave their roots, the heat, the economic debacle and the new promise of progress, this time on another planet. The pampinos prepare to leave their past behind and embark on a space voyage, the last exodus from the saltpeter pampas.

In northern Chile, where the desert meets the ocean, a few solitary fishermen have made their home. Despite the arid land, the sea seems to offer them everything they need. It is a fragile balance, since this haven of freedom becomes an arena for military exercises every year.

A self-aware data cloud searches for its planetary body from the ocean to the desert at the end of the world. Along the way, the cloud encounters activists, scientists and indigenous women fighting against its presence, discovering the environmental damage caused by its existence while asking: how can technology be developed without sacrificing ecologies and communities?

Samanta, a girl from the streets, lives with Profeto, a Peruvian immigrant who adopted her as his own daughter. One night, Profeto tells Samanta that his wife and daughter have arrived to Chile to live with him. Their presence threatens Samanta’s permanence so she starts to despair and act self-destructively, trying to call Profeto’s attention and not lose her recently found home.

In Costa Rica, the family of Melba (65) and Víctor (70) has sheltered over 130 children in the last 40 years. Today, some of them seek paths to adulthood while a new child is integrated into this great family with the adventures and difficulties of a home that continues to multiply despite the parents’ advanced age.

Speculative short film featuring a chatbot that reflects on its digital memory, exploring various territories and materials that compose it. During its journey, it interacts with a submarine Internet cable, observes a protest against a new data center and listens to the tears of a volcano in cell phone batteries. The work invites us to reflect on the relationship between ecology and digital technologies in Chile, exploring territories that have been transformed into digital hotspots.