Andrew Bargsted
1993 (31 год)
Mis hermanos sueñan despiertos
Claudia Huaiquimilla
Iván Cáceres, César Herrera
Ángel and his brother Franco have been locked up in a juvenile detention centre for a year. Despite the hostility of the place, they form bonds with others inmates and daydream about the future.
My Brothers Dream Awake
Marilyn
Martín Rodríguez Redondo
Walter Rodríguez, Catalina Saavedra
Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Marilyn by the other teenagers in town, Marcos is a target for desire and discrimination.
Marilyn
You'll Never Be Alone
Alex Anwandter
Sergio Hernández, Andrew Bargsted
Introverted Juan, manager of a mannequin factory, lives alone with his eighteen-year-old gay son, Pablo. Whilst Pablo blithely studies dance, Juan is hoping that, after twenty-five years at the firm, his boss will consider him for a partnership. When Pablo is badly wounded in a brutal homophobic attack which sees him hospitalised, his father realises just how far they have become estranged. A lack of witnesses and expensive medical bills force Juan to leave the quiet stability of his life for good and reposition himself in a world where there is discrimination. Time and again his efforts come to nought, until one night on the streets of Santiago he makes up his own rules in order to save his son.
You'll Never Be Alone
Matar a Pinochet
Juan Ignacio Sabatini
Daniela Ramírez, Cristián Carvajal
Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Kill Pinochet
Algunas bestias
Jorge Riquelme Serrano
Paulina García, Alfredo Castro
A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
Some Beasts
Yun
Mauricio Corco Espinoza
Hye Min An Song, Sok-Won Lhi
Yun is grounded by her father for spending three days away from home for breaking family traditions. In her stoic nocturnal journey through the streets, malls and service centers, Yun experiences an accelerated maturity, of which she only realizes when she returns and faces her father.
Yun
Folil
Ignacio Montenegro Bralic
Andrew Bargsted, Rallén Montenegro
Folil, "root" in mapunzungun, is an invitation to question the relationship of humanity with nature; the way we think about it and inhabit it. Two young Mapuche people from the communities of Pukura and Traitraico, in southern Chile, face the difficulty of protecting the forest in order to continue collecting wild mushrooms, their food and medicine. The territory itself and the affected Mapuche communities are making the world aware of their problems, where the language of nature faces the paradoxes of development.
Folil
Rapaz
Felipe Gálvez Haberle
Benjamín Westfall, Roberto Farías
Ariel gets involved in a teenager's civil arrest, who is accused of stealing a phone. A mob surrounds the young man and some curse and beat him, some defend him. The police isn't showing up. Ariel has to decide what side he is on.
Raptor
