Esteban M. Soto

In Cañete there was a large movie theater in the center of town until the 1980s. At that time many things still worked. From a child's point of view, the short film transports us to an ordinary afternoon in Cañete, when people still happily went to the movies despite how difficult life was.

Through interviews, different mothers are asked to recall a precious moment with their children that has not been recorded, and then draw that moment and use it to fill the gap in a photo album.

Compilation of images of the small everyday things that inhabit the city, those situations that are constantly lost sight of if you don't pay attention.

Through the juxtaposition of images, the documentary proposes to show the juxtaposition present in Chilean society and how it is capable of lamenting the coup d'état and a week later celebrating the Glories of the Army and the “18th”.

Mobilization of students of the University of Chile against the increase of fees, from "Casa Central" to "Torre 15".

Esteban (18), a shy film student, returns for a few days to his hometown of Cañete. There he will try to film the places that marked his childhood, only to discover that most of them are falling apart, just like his memories.

Who are you? Where do you come from? What are your concerns?

“I'm modern, I take the subway” is a visual story illustrating how the Santiago subway is, par excellence, a symbol of modernity in the city. In it you can see contemporary art, mass and consumer society, multinational companies, the acceleration of life, etc., so the subway has become an overdose of modernity, with all the contradictions that this brings.

You see the perspective of a child who, after a fight between his parents, waits all day, with a loaf of bread and a cup of tea, for his father to return.

It's just 5 minutes of nothing

In a little more than 2 minutes we see how an old woman goes from being present to being lost inside herself, due to her senile dementia.

Returning to the ruins of the hospital where he came into the world, the director tries to remember what his birth was like, in search of a self-image that he lacks.

Short monologue in which the director reflects on what it means to him to be free.

An account of what it was like to dissociate on a random day on a random street.

Exposed, hungry and tired, but always smiling. The documentary explores what a day of up to 11 hours in retail sales is like, where the worker is stripped of something as simple as time - while selling watches.

Dialogue rescued from a conversation following the screening of a film in the context of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile.

A journey through the ruins of childhoods that passed too quickly.

Documentary short film in which the director returns to the Peleco port after 10 years, remembering and imagining what happened at the lake.