Ignacio Agüero

The Other Day

The house of the director has a door out to the sidewalk. This gate separates the inside from the outside. The interior contains the filmmaker's personal story and his world of objects, thoughts and imaginations. Outer space contains the city of Santiago de Chile. The stories of the world inside the house are interrupted when the doorbell rings unknown and thus come into the film.

Days in the Country

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".

11 Habitaciones en Antártica

Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms.

Under Construction (Or The Place Where I Was Born No Longer Exists)

Agüero is able to look at the scene in all it's complexity around architectonical brutality that Santiago de Chile underwent around the year 2000.

I Never Climbed the Provincia

A director's love letter to his neighborhood: its people, his house and his family.

Fragmentos urbanos

Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.

El gato

Two young university students break a thief out of a lecture hall, who has locked himself in after stealing from a university business.

The Other Day

The house of the director has a door out to the sidewalk. This gate separates the inside from the outside. The interior contains the filmmaker's personal story and his world of objects, thoughts and imaginations. Outer space contains the city of Santiago de Chile. The stories of the world inside the house are interrupted when the doorbell rings unknown and thus come into the film.

Days in the Country

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".

11 Habitaciones en Antártica

Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms.

Under Construction (Or The Place Where I Was Born No Longer Exists)

Agüero is able to look at the scene in all it's complexity around architectonical brutality that Santiago de Chile underwent around the year 2000.

I Never Climbed the Provincia

A director's love letter to his neighborhood: its people, his house and his family.

Fragmentos urbanos

Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.

El gato

Two young university students break a thief out of a lecture hall, who has locked himself in after stealing from a university business.

The Painting Lesson

In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.

Don’t Forget

A key document of the dictatorship years, and a pinnacle moment in Chilean cinema. Filmed covertly during the dictatorship, No Olvidar chronicles a terrible episode in Chile’s history: the kidnapping and murder of five men whose bodies were only found after five years of searching.

Voice Over

A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.

Animal de costumbre

Two friends meet again after many years, in Santiago. One of them, successful, refuses to help the other. But after changing his mind, he realizes that the man always wants more.

Teresa

Teresa Wilms Montt is a writer, a rebellious woman, tormented and beautiful. He marries at age 17 challenging family opposition. She falls in love with someone she should not and the family court condemns her to confinement in a convent. Separated from her two daughters, she escapes to Buenos Aires with Vicente Huidobro. From that flight her life becomes an exciting and tragic itinerary.

Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes

Two women who have spent their whole lives together must deal with the illness affecting one of them. The sick woman decides not to have treatment and they move into a cabin in the woods to wait for the day that death will come into their lives. The situation sees the resurfacing of the love that time had buried under the routine. Gradually their relationship will strengthen as death bides its time outside the cabin.

The Sky, the Earth and the Rain

Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not only of getting away of the loneliness that constitutes their innermost core, but also of finding themselves, they reach for each other to get brotherly and sexual love, affection, and a space and time of their own.

La Recta Provincia

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.

The Winds Know That I'm Coming Back Home

Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.

City of Photographers

A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.

Latent Image

In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.

Tendida mirando las estrellas

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.

Nemesio

A public services employee receive the news that he will be lowered in rank and salary. So he decides to rebel, for at least the weekend...

Letters to My Dead Parents

What do you tell your dead parents? Combining family archives and glimpses of today, the filmmaker weaves together fifty years of his life and the socio-political history of Chile. The montage wanders through the ages, between light and shadow, without ever leaving the joy.

Hoy es jueves cinematográfico

It's Thursday, the day to go to the movies in Chile. Families see in the newspapers and advertisements the films that will be shown. Everything is prepared. A man attends a function and sitting in the audience, he gets excited when he sees his favorite images and actors on the big screen. The movie ends and the screen turns off. It is time to return to reality.

What Is This Story and How Does It End?

A prominent Chilean documentary director shares his family album with the film editor of his late works. A review of one hundred photographs and a quiet conversation will rise to memories of the films of one of the most personal filmmakers.

Mentiras verdaderas

Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.

Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor

Series based on Corín Tellado's "pink" novels. Romantic stories that take place in Modern times, portraying the prejudices and social pressures that both men and women have to endure.

Heredia & asociados

The adventures of an irreverent private detective, while he is dealing with economic problems.

Litoral

An ode to Chilean maritime myth and storytelling. Sailors onboard the Lucerna tell stories, but before long their stories intersect.

La Recta Provincia

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.

Maldito corazón

Miniseries based on crimes that occurred at different periods of time in the history of Chile.