Fernando Gallardo

Based on Benjamín Galerini's play "El seductor".

In 1990, a teenager called Angel Cruz disappears tragically. Ten years later, her classmates that were involved with this accident start to investigate the mysterious causes of the vanishing.

This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.

In 1962, a photographer working for a crime reports newspaper in Valparaiso, Chile, is obsessed with creating a photo novel that will revolutionize the art world. Helped by its neighbors, humiliated by their producers, but determined to make his ambitious project a reality, the photographer will betray -one after another- their unusual theories, neighbors, colleagues, their love and finally himself.

A young and excentric radio DJ airs a successful program in which diverse calls come in from anonymous listeners, who reveal their love stories, all charged with mix-ups, disputes and passion.

A corrupt mayor, his undercover agents and two rival gangs of drug traffickers. This dangerous cocktail serves as the basis for a thriller accented with black humor and high impact dialogues. It shows in a dynamic and contemporary style the underworld of drug trafficking in Latin America and its effects on society.

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.

A middle-class public employee becomes obsessed with the investment alternatives offered by the neo-liberal economic model that Chile has implemented in the late 1970s. Years later he shall face the consequences.of his past decisions.