Luis R. Vera
Directing
Biography
Luis Roberto Vera Vargas is a Chilean film director, producer, writer and communications professor. Vargas was born in Santiago, Chile. He left the country after the 1973 military coup and arrived first in Perú as a refugee, and then in Romania, where he studied film at the University of Bucharest.
Known For
As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
Fiestapatria
Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
The Inconclusive Independence
A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.
Consuelo
The life and times of famed Paraguayan musician Agustín Pío Barrios, from the years of his youth to his international success.
Mangoré
In the small town called Amerigua where most things are controlled by the influential Colonel Banderas, the people are preparing themselves for the annual beauty contest. At the same time the revolutionist Evaristo returns after twenty years of exile in Nicaragua. He now seeks revenge aswell as his childhood friend Maria...
Miss Ameriguá
The extreme poverty produced by unbridled neoliberalism in Pinochet’s Chile is an allegory for the disappeared. Based on a play by Juan Radrigán.
Hechos consumados
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Viola Chilensis
A shootout in the center of Stockholm, which is the cause of a tragic and casual reunion after a long time, between Manuel - a gang leader - Lena, who it was his great love, aspiring to police officer, and Kalle, who was his great friend and now he is a janitor of a discoteque; in a night they will never forget and that would change their lives forever
Bastards in Paradise
On the waterfront, a few soldiers inspect the perimeter where a festive table has been set up in front of a makeshift wooden stage. The garrison commander greets a motley group of foreign visitors as the waiters open the champagne to start the show. The perspectives alternate, the bah-humbug atmosphere at the guests' table is counterpointed by the reluctance of the performers and the resentment of those who prepare the meal and must serve the guests. From this group, the character played by Marga Barbu stands out for her eccentric, disruptive presence, upsetting the fragile balance of the whole performance and aggravating the already tense situation towards its dramatic climax.
In a Not Far Away Place
This Super 8 short film was discovered on May 22, 2024, at the Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute in Asunción. The film is the result of a workshop produced by the ICPA's film department in 1987, led by filmmaker Marie Louise Alemann, a pioneer of experimental cinema in Argentina.
Fabrications
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Allende, de Valparaiso al Mundo
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Neruda, el hombre y su obra
Pedro, the grandfather, Maria, the granddaughter, José, who works as a consignee, and a migrant mother in Spain: these four characters tell us a story that unfolds in the intimate universe of a single place, a labyrinth of relationships and revelations that becomes a surprising metaphor for the country's past and present within a family: a terminally ill grandfather, a youthful love story, the old man who refuses to die, the new man who struggles to come into the world... only one solution is possible...