Alma
Chilean countryside. After a night of heavy drinking, Andrés, a forty year-old farmer, will strive to come to terms with [...]
Films
El elefante blanco
The largest free public hospital in Chile was about to be built, but the 1973 Military Coup d'état postponed those [...]
A Letter to Elia
Premiered last year at the Venice Festival, this film is an emotional journey through Elia Kazan’s life and work, and [...]
A Woman
Max Oliver, a famous and enigmatic novelist with whom Julie, an innocent youth, falls in love; she seems to be [...]
Al otro lado del río
Pedro has lived in the desert for the last four years with his mother and his sister; voluntarily marginalized from [...]
Alila
So far, old man Schwartz led a peaceful life, accompanied by Linda, a Philippine young woman in charge of caring [...]
Street Vendor
Jorge R. Gutiérrez’s first work is a documentary that focuses on seven street vendors, who open up to the director [...]
Aquí estoy, aquí no
Ramiro es un periodista que luego de un accidente sufre de fobia a la velocidad. Suspendido de su trabajo, un [...]
Muleteers
In this documentary, premiered last year as part of the Mar del Plata Festival’s official competition, filmmaker Juan Baldana immerses [...]
Unter Kontrolle / Under Control
Debuting this year in the Forum of the Berlinale and screened in festivals like Bafici, this documentary by Volker Sattel [...]
Benda Bilili!
Ricky Lickabu had a dream, to make Staff Benda Bilili the best band in Kinshasa, the capitol of the Democratic [...]
Better Than Something: Jay Reatard
What was originally going to be a short film documentary called Waiting for Something, took an abrupt turn after the [...]
Bombal
Bombal tells the real story of one of the most important women in the Latin American literature. Great writer and [...]
Bombay Beach
Bombay Beach is a documentary filmed in the Southern California community by the same name, which many see as an [...]
Cairo Exit
Forbidden by the censorship in Egypt, Cairo Exit was premiered at the Dubai Festival, and this year it competed in [...]
Camila
After discovering that her grandmother, Florencia, has Alzheimer's, Camila, who is 27 years old, takes her to live with her [...]
Ciao Cirella
The movie focuses on Berthaud’s own personal experience: it tells the story of when he decided to travel and meet [...]
Copacabana
Here Huppert is Badou, an extrovert and happy woman, who is not concerned with social conventions, until she discovers that [...]
Renn wenn Du kannst / Run if you can
Premiering last year in Berlinale, the opera prima by Dietrich Brüggemann is centered on a particular love triangle, because Ben [...]
Dios me libre
Satirical comedy about two cousins who join together to form a religious sect and take advantage of the [...]
Désengagement
It is a story of encounters and dysfunctions in a French-Israeli family that lives in the controversial Gaza Strip. Ana [...]
The Marriage
El círculo was shown at SANFIC 4- tells the simple story of two people that were lucky enough to meet [...]
El cielo hecho pedazos
Based on a childhood anecdote of French writer Alexandre Dumas, this short film is an emotional portrait of Matías, a [...]
Den kæmpestore bjørn / The Great Bear
When, after a fight, Jonathan leaves Sophie trapped behind this door, he sees the opportunity to finally get rid of [...]
Der Mann der über Autos sprang / The Man who jumped over Cars
After escaping a psychiatric institution in Berlin, Julian is run over by a car driven by Juliane, a young doctor. [...]
The Winter of the Odd Ones Out
This film by Rodrigo Guerrero focuses on Fabián, Gustavo, Marcia, Rocío, Sabrina and Teté: six strangers in search of some [...]
El ropero del pueblo
Chile, 1932. In the midst of the economic depression that has hit the country, 16 year-old Alicia helps by mending [...]
Iris in Bloom
The visual artist, Valérie Mréjen, joined forces with the philosopher, art expert and writer, Bertrand Schefer, in order to develop [...]
Entre ruedas
This short documentary follows the traditional trolley buses that have functioned in Valparaíso for decades. It follows them for a [...]
Essential Killing
Gallo is an Afghan soldier who is captured by American troops and accused of murder, but is able to escape [...]
Esther
The leading character is Esther, who doesn’t know she is really a Jew until Ahasuerus, king of Persia, chooses her [...]
Exhibición especial: Catafalque
Two brothers trapped in the darkness of a basement are hiding from their menacing father. In the middle of their [...]
Special screening: One Night in Kernersville
The musician and orchestra conductor John Brown is about to fulfill his life's dream: to record a disc of jazz [...]
Fodbold er gud
Following three fans of the legendary Argentine soccer club Boca Juniors -Hernán, an intellectual who is always in a place [...]
Schwerkraft / Gravity
Frederik Feinemann, an ambitious bank employee, cancels credit on one of the bank’s clients, who reacts in despair by [...]
García
In this tragicomedy full of surprises, Alcázar plays the homonymous character, a weak and gray individual who is about to [...]
Teta, Alf Marra
Teta is 83. Her home in Beirut is now empty and silent, while she must satisfy herself with smoking hookah, [...]
Guest
Chile that constitutes one of the destinations that Guerin chose to be part of this new project, premiered at the [...]
Autumn
After a decade working as a successful film actor, Aamir Bashir debuted as a filmmaker with this movie which premiered [...]
Herbert Up Close
Herbert Vianna was the leader of the well-known band Os Paralamas do Sucesso. Ten years ago, his musical career was [...]
Daughter
After studying journalism, María Paz González has become a documentary filmmaker, and in this first feature length film -a winner [...]
Ish lelo selolari / Man Without a Cell Phone
Here, he not only makes a portrait of a generally unfamiliar reality, but does so with a reality he knows [...]
Je suis un no man’s land
A pop musician who, after a concert, finds himself involved in a series of situations that are both funny and [...]
Jess + Moss
Premiered for a worldwide audience at the Sundance Festival and also screened at the Berlinale, Clay Jeter’s first work stars [...]
Joven y alocada
Daniela es una chica de 18 años criada en el seno de una conservadora familia evangélica. Dividida entre la culpa [...]
Kippour
Because of the ferocious attack by Egypt and Syria, two Israeli soldiers, Weinraub and Russo, have lost touch with their [...]
Das Lied in mir / The Day I was not Born
Recipient of the Fipresci award at the Montreal Festival, Florian Cossen’s opera prima also received four nominations to the German [...]
La carrera del animal
Filmed in black and white, La carrera del animal deals with the closing of a company which leaves hundreds of [...]
Expecting
In this, her first work which was part of last year’s Work In Progress category of our festival, Fuenzalida speaks [...]
The Warrior
La guerrera follows Ana María Torres for three years. Born in Nezahualcóyotl, in Mexico City’s suburbs, she always dreamed of [...]
La hora invisible
He works at night. She works in the day. He comes home every morning, when she is leaving for work. [...]
La jubilada
A los 30 años, Fabiola Neira retorna resignada a su pueblo natal. Ahí todos la reconocen como la mujer [...]
Æblet & Ormen / The Apple & The Worm
Torben is an apple that only dreams of shining in some supermarket’s display, though he isn’t always nice to other [...]
Half of Óscar
Óscar leads a grey and monotonous life working as a security guard at a half-abandoned saltmine. His routine is altered [...]
La muerte de Pinochet
On December 10th, 2006, Augusto Pinochet passed away at Santiago’s Military Hospital. His death brought a 24-hour resurgence of the [...]
Ivan’s Woman
The leading characters are 40 year-old Iván and 15 year-old Natalia; two characters that are immersed in a strange and [...]
La vieja de atrás
La vieja de atrás has been included in the official selections of both Mar del Plata and Sao Paulo, and [...]
Leontina
Este documental se centra en Leontina, una mujer en las aisladas tierras del sur de Chile, donde nació y se [...]
What is Lacking
Two years ago, after meeting renowned Mexican trainer Ramón Arellano in the United States, a boxing fan organized an international [...]
Madwomen
María Elena Wood’s new feature length documentary -after La hija del general, shown at SANFIC 2- tells us the intimate [...]
Vorstadtkrokodile / The Crocodiles
The Crocodiles, the gang which Hannes dreams of becoming a member of; he is ten years old, lives alone with [...]
Mamá Chocó
The leading character is Paulina, a vivacious woman even after giving birth to 26 children, who after a bombing that [...]
Mammuth
Gérard Depardieu plays a man who, at his 60 years of age, retires after a lifetime of work, but finds [...]
A Map for a Talk
Roberta, the keen mother of a 6 year-old boy who came from a not fully resolved relationship, currently lives with [...]
Mapocho
Mapocho focuses on Robert Bruce, a lawyer at a successful firm in London who decides to make a change of [...]
Marker `72
En 1972, en pleno gobierno de Allende, desembarca en Chile junto al equipo de Costa Gavras que venía a filmar [...]
Martes
The routine of an unsatisfied and bored woman that lives in uptown Santiago will be altered by the mysterious presence [...]
Midnight in Paris
After London and Barcelona, it is now time to show the charms of another emblematic European city: Paris [...]
Meek’s Cutoff
Three settler families have hired a man from the mountains, Stephen Meek, to guide their convoys, but he takes them [...]
You better not smoke
Set in Valparaíso, this first work by the young filmmaker Daniel Peralta stars Paulo, who after ending a relationship becomes [...]
Memorias del viento
Rafael Egaña, aged 38, is affected by retinitis pigmentosa, which has him at the verge of becoming [...]
Nowhere Boy
Nominated for four Bafta awards including best film, and six British Independent Film Awards (out of which it received one [...]
Mi vida secreta
A free adaptation of a poem by Charles Bukowski, tells of the events of one Saturday afternoon, when a nine-year-old [...]
Microphone
After a year travelling in the United States, Khaled returns to his native city, but is unable to pick up [...]
Miral
With a screenplay written by journalist Rula Jebreal who adapted her own autobiographic novel, the story takes place after the [...]
Moacir
This, Tomás Lipgot’s fourth feature film, came from one of his previous documentaries, Fortalezas. There, one of the characters was [...]
Potiche
Set in 1977, this comedy by François Ozon was premiered as part of the Venice Festival’s competition and revolves around [...]
Ganz nah bei dir / Close to you
Philipp, a lonely young man working in a bank discarding counterfeit money, leads a peaceful and orderly life, with no [...]
Neukölln Unlimited
Filmed in the Berlin district of Neukölln, this documentary debuted last year in the Berlinale and was screened in film [...]
News from Home / News from House
Is the last part of a trilogy that the director began in 1980 with House and continued in 1998 with [...]
Norberto’s Deadline
An unavoidable presence in Uruguayan and Argentine film during the last 10 years -thanks to films like 25 Watts and [...]
OK, Enough, Goodbye – Tayeb, Khalas, Yalla
In their first work, set in Tripoli, a 40 year-old man still lives with his mother and has grown accustomed [...]
Ostende
In this opera prima, shown this year at Bafici’s Argentine Competition, a young woman named Laura wins a radio contest; [...]
Artificial Paradises
Actress Luisa Pardo, whom we have seen in other SANFIC-shown movies (Familia Tortuga and Juntos), now plays a young heroin [...]
Little Voices
This story is told through the voices of four kids aged 8 to 13 and their own drawings, describing the [...]
Plumíferos
When one day Feifi escapes, she meets Juan and his friends: Clarita the bat, Pipo the hummingbird and Libia the [...]
Población Obrera
A trained chemical civil engineer and journalist, time lead Rodrigo Fernández toward audiovisual creation, and he has since worked in [...]
Poetry
The film stars Mija, who lives with her grandson and cares for a sick older man; while she herself starts [...]
The Poll diaries
Filmed in locations of the Baltic sea coast, it is set in the beginning of last century, in a society [...]
Beyond the Road
It all begins in Montevideo, where Santiago, an Argentinean who had a big job in New York but now searches [...]
Puente
Catalina has used drugs again and she runs through the streets of Santiago. Her friends finally reach her and take [...]
Quest for Honor
This movie was filmed in Iraq and focuses on a tremendously harsh and painful reality found in the Middle East: [...]
Revolución – El cruce de los Andes
The story begins in 1880, in a Buenos Aires guesthouse, where a journalist interviews Manuel Esteban de Corvalán, one of [...]
Rosalind
During an afternoon at the Tigre delta, a group of young actors rehearse the famous Shakespeare play As you like [...]
Roses à crédit
Through a story set in the years after World War II, he keeps his distance from the Holocaust to focus [...]
Sentados frente al fuego
Daniel y Alejandra están juntos desde hace un par de años. Ambos están cerca de los 40, y ahora se [...]
Podslon
After exploring animated media, advertising and music videos, director Dragomir Sholev made this, his first work, in which the apparently [...]
Wer wenn nicht wir / If not Us, Who
Set in the 60s Federal Republic of Germany, it shows the beginnings of the RAF -a terrorist left wing organization- [...]
Soul Boy
The main character here is 14 year-old Abila, who one day finds his father to be ill and upset, claiming [...]
Stranger Things
Oona is a young woman that returns to the home where she spent her childhood to go over the belongings [...]
Tagnawittude
When she was just a young girl, the Algerian filmmaker, Rahma Benhamou El Madani, was fascinated with the traditional art [...]
Tata Cedrón / The Return of Juancito Caminador
This documentary’s main character is Juan “Tata” Cedrón, one of the most renovating musicians of the Tango, born in the [...]
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Among the filmed portraits the director made of avant-garde artists, her look at Genesis P-Orridge -an icon of the underground [...]
The Last Rites of Joe May
Joe May, an impoverished veteran who, in spite of a life full of failures and losses, has always believed he [...]
Gagma Napiri
This moving story focuses on twelve-year-old Tedo, a refugee that left his home in Abkhazia with his mother to escape [...]
Tiny Furniture
Dunham plays 22 year-old Aura, who returns to her mother’s home with a useless film theory diploma, 357 visits on [...]
Titanes
Chile, 1982. Raul is the driver of some CNI agents (CNI was the Intelligence Service of Pinochet's dictatorship). [...]
Todo tranquilo en el barrio
José is a security guard in a wealthy Santiago neighborhood. After he was unable to react to a robbery in [...]
All your Dead Ones
Premiered this year at the Sundance Festival, shown as part of Rotterdam’s official competition, and also the recipient of a [...]
Torrente 4 – Lethal Crisis
In Torrente 4 the main character is accused of a crime he didn’t commit and put in jail. From his [...]
Drei / Three
. The story takes place in Berlin, and starts when we are introduced to Hanna and Simon, who have lived [...]
Tres
This short film shows us a group of fragments in which Diego, Ana and Matías will walk through a city [...]
Tropa de elite 2 – O inimigo agora è outro / Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within
Ten years older, Captain Nascimento has managed to reduce drug trafficking in favelas, but he now discovers he has been [...]
Ulises Morales
Ulises Morales es un ciudadano ejemplar del Gran Santiago, para el cual la sociedad civil ha perdido sus valores, el [...]
Ulises
In this, Oscar Godoy’s opera prima (after documentary works in Venezuela and Spain), praised Argentinean actor Jorge Román –who can [...]
Una hora más en Canarias
Angie Cepeda is Claudia, an attractive woman that has a café in downtown Madrid and is happy with her husband, [...]
Victorio
In this film, he enters the conflictive organization of the maras, dangerous criminal gangs that are present in different countries [...]
Vincent will meer / Vincent wants to Sea
Vincent, a young man affected with the neurological disorder known as Tourette’s syndrome, which has gotten worse after his mother’s [...]
Free Zone
This year’s best actress winner at the Oscars, Natalie Portman, plays Rebecca, who left the United States to live in [...]
Zoológico
Un frío día de invierno y el comienzo de las vacaciones para tres quinceañeros. Suburbios, mall, internet, pornografía, violencia y [...]
Have You seen Lupita?
Lupita is a young Mexican woman who has to run from her relatives that want her institutionalized. This starts a [...]
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