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 [...]
Cine Hoyts La Reina
A Woman
Max Oliver, a famous and enigmatic novelist with whom Julie, an innocent youth, falls in love; she seems to be [...]
Street Vendor
Jorge R. Gutiérrez’s first work is a documentary that focuses on seven street vendors, who open up to the director [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Iris in Bloom
The visual artist, Valérie Mréjen, joined forces with the philosopher, art expert and writer, Bertrand Schefer, in order to develop [...]
Essential Killing
Gallo is an Afghan soldier who is captured by American troops and accused of murder, but is able to escape [...]
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 [...]
Jess + Moss
Premiered for a worldwide audience at the Sundance Festival and also screened at the Berlinale, Clay Jeter’s first work stars [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Norberto’s Deadline
An unavoidable presence in Uruguayan and Argentine film during the last 10 years -thanks to films like 25 Watts and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Quest for Honor
This movie was filmed in Iraq and focuses on a tremendously harsh and painful reality found in the Middle East: [...]
Podslon
After exploring animated media, advertising and music videos, director Dragomir Sholev made this, his first work, in which the apparently [...]
Stranger Things
Oona is a young woman that returns to the home where she spent her childhood to go over the belongings [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Drei / Three
. The story takes place in Berlin, and starts when we are introduced to Hanna and Simon, who have lived [...]
Ulises
In this, Oscar Godoy’s opera prima (after documentary works in Venezuela and Spain), praised Argentinean actor Jorge Román –who can [...]
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