Juan Francisco Ossa Sandoval
Directing
Biography
Juan Franscisco Ossa is a Chilean filmmaker based in Santiago and the founder of Cineverso Escuela, an initiative dedicated to film education and creative development. His work explores themes of youth, marginalization, and memory, often focusing on characters shaped by complex social environments. In addition to directing, he is also a screenwriter, developing stories that emphasize intimate and emotionally grounded narratives. He is currently working on his upcoming short film El Cine Ciego, a dystopian story set in a future where cinema no longer exists.
Known For
A rainy bus ride becomes a poetic reflection on memory, love, and the small details of urban life. Through imagined cinema, conversations, and drifting memories, two voices travel across a city suspended in nostalgia and time.
Bus Window Memories
An audiovisual letter that connects an imagined Kyrgyzstan with the filmmaker’s inner world, blending personal illness, memory, and political echoes into a poetic reflection on distance and belonging.
Kyrgyzstan
Kevin (14) is a teenager who escaped from a juvenile detention home (SENAME) in Valparaíso. Now, he wanders the streets of Santiago, trying to forget a crime he was accidentally involved in years ago. After learning about the death of a girl from the same institution, Kevin decides to return to Valparaíso to visit her grave. However, when he reunites with Jeremy (16), his former partner in crime, he is forced to confront his past and question whether a future is still possible for them.
Kevin has no name
Inspired by the infamous “Rojo Case,” the film portrays the fragile dynamics and emotional fractures preceding a shocking family crime.
Blood Red
An observational journey through downtown Santiago during the post-lockdown period, where thousands of workers flood the city each day, exposing the fragile line between survival, exhaustion, and collective abandonment in the midst of the pandemic.