Pablo Schwarz

Neruda

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

The Movie Teller

María Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they all go to the movies to enjoy stories that let them escape their everyday lives by transporting them to other worlds. The girl’s parents soon realise that the little girl has a very special gift: an almost uncanny ability to recount movies. The girl’s extraordinary talent will spread throughout the village, changing the fortunes of her family as the country is transformed forever.

In Her Place

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women.

Eros Thanatos

Four people with problematic relationships catch a deadly std that brings out their basic instincts.

Fragmentos de Lucía

A young woman receives a letter from the biological mother she has never met. She sets off to Valparaíso to find her.

Life Kills Me

Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a adventure that help them unearth the fragility and value of human existence

A Yard of Jackals

In the winter of 1978, under Chile’s dictatorship in Santiago, disabled architectural model maker Raúl Peralta leads a quiet life caring for his ailing mother. His routine is shattered by the arrival of new neighbors whose sinister activities seem to hide dark secrets.

Family Coup

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, the family of the stern anti-communist dictator Augusto Pinochet found themselves forced to share their home with the spirit of the late former socialist president Salvador Allende, who was portrayed by a puppet. This short film aims to salvage this show's existence by extracting fragments from its surviving material.

Neruda

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

The Movie Teller

María Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they all go to the movies to enjoy stories that let them escape their everyday lives by transporting them to other worlds. The girl’s parents soon realise that the little girl has a very special gift: an almost uncanny ability to recount movies. The girl’s extraordinary talent will spread throughout the village, changing the fortunes of her family as the country is transformed forever.

In Her Place

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women.

Eros Thanatos

Four people with problematic relationships catch a deadly std that brings out their basic instincts.

Fragmentos de Lucía

A young woman receives a letter from the biological mother she has never met. She sets off to Valparaíso to find her.

Life Kills Me

Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a adventure that help them unearth the fragility and value of human existence

A Yard of Jackals

In the winter of 1978, under Chile’s dictatorship in Santiago, disabled architectural model maker Raúl Peralta leads a quiet life caring for his ailing mother. His routine is shattered by the arrival of new neighbors whose sinister activities seem to hide dark secrets.

Family Coup

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, the family of the stern anti-communist dictator Augusto Pinochet found themselves forced to share their home with the spirit of the late former socialist president Salvador Allende, who was portrayed by a puppet. This short film aims to salvage this show's existence by extracting fragments from its surviving material.

Broken Panties

The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of the family members will face what they would prefer remained buried. Nobody is free of killing for love.

Spider Thieves

Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town.

History and Geography

Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decided to return to her hometown to stage a play about the conquest of Chile, which will allow her to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost but never had.

Cinema Psycho

The Character suffers from cinema-psychosis, a mental disorder defined as the obsessive idea that the person is inside a movie. Locked in his room for an endless day, he must cope with the consequences of his illness, lamenting his own fiction and raving about his existence. He needs to elucidate if his world is real or if it is just a movie...

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.

Fragmentos urbanos

Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.

...And Suddenly the Dawn

Pancho Veloso, an old writer of celebrity articles, returns to his hometown of Chilean Patagonia after more than 40 years of having fled. When trying to write "salable" stories about that area so called "the end of the world", he will face his past and leave his imposture.

Attitude Test

Four high school seniors steal an important college entrance exam and go on vacation to "study," but accidentally lose the exam while partying.

Cachimba

A man takes his insecure, overweight paramour to a seaside resort to consummate their relationship, but there he stumbles onto an artistic discovery that will change his life.

Caleuche: The Call of the Sea

A young woman who suffers a strange disease must travel to a mysterious island in South America, where myths and reality are one and the same.

I Don’t Want to Be Your Brother

A 34-year-old man asks his girlfriend for marriage the same day that his sister Constanza arrives at his house, which will test his great differences.

No basta con amar

A couple decides to end their relationship and look for the perfect way to tell their son Samir, who surprises them, because he actually knows a lot more than they think they do about what is happening.

Noches de sol

Two brothers turn their uncles' luxurious house into a motel for an entire summer.

Como si fuéramos solo amigos

Martina and Jorge were best friends throughout their teenage years, until the day they decided to have sex. After that, nothing was ever the same. After a decade without contact, they meet again by chance one summer night in Buenos Aires, and realize they still have the same connection they had when they were young. They must decide whether to remain just friends or something more.

Los 80

The story of the Herreras, a middle-class family living in Santiago of Chile. The plot is set between 1982 and 1989, in the military dictatorship, and revolves around historical events during the 80's, especially the economic crisis of 1982 and the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Santiago.

Los Pincheira

Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father.

Romané

A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past.

Primera dama

Sabina Astudillo is an ordinary, young but ambitious woman who is willing to do anything to seduce Leonardo Sandander a presidential candidate to become the First Lady of Chile.

Floribella

A 20-year-old girl with a deep passion for music will radically change her life when she finds work at the Fritzenwalden family home as an assistant to Governess Greta, who is in charge of six children who have just lost their parents. What she does not know is that in this house she will aslo discover true love.

Sucupira

Sucupira is a seaside town in Chile. Federico Valdivieso, the mayor, a scoundrel, rascal and womanizer is determined to be re-elected. One of his main goals for that is to inaugurate the Sucupira cemetery, something he cannot achieve because nobody is dying, in his endeavor to make that happen he will star in hilarious situations.

Pushovers

Six men unfairly dismissed from their jobs, decide to take revenge and form an inexperienced band to rob the trucks of their old transport company. But what they ignore is that the new owner is one of the most dangerous mobsters of all South America.

La fiera

Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married.

El circo de las Montini

A circus family must face a new season of performances, under the risk that this may be their last tour.

Heroes

Chilean TV miniseries. Each episode relates the history of one of the principal figures Chilean figures of the 19th century: Bernardo O'Higgins, José Miguel Carrera, Manuel Rodríguez, Diego Portales, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Prat.

Corazón de María

Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life.

Feroz

When the Cruz family return to their hometown, they are victims of strange events related to werewolves.

Oro verde

An ambitious entrepreneur wants to cut down the forest of southern Chile, but a young ecologist girl will hinder their plans.

Pampa Ilusión

The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis.

Iorana

Cristian is in love with the beautiful "pascuense" Vaitea, but external interests interpose between them.

Trampas y caretas

A billionaire and obsessive mother entrusts a woman named Mariana with the job of falling in love with one of her two sons in exchange of a generous monthly check. However, Carmen's wishes will not be easy to fulfill, as both men have totally opposite personalities.

Huaiquimán y Tolosa

A pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals.

Ámame

Daniela, a young student, falls in love with Luciano the son of the owner of her high school. He corresponds her love. But both must face Francisca, an unbalanced and beautiful young woman who holds an insane obsession for Luciano.

Mamá mechona

A 40 year old woman decides, for the first time to study at an university.

Sucupira, la comedia

A spin-off sequel of the 1996 TV series "Sucupira". The story takes place when Sucupira Mayor Federico Valdivieso, who was thought gone and buried comes out of his grave, causing confussion and chaos among the town's citizens.

Estúpido cupido

In 1962, the small town of San Andrés is ruled by morality and good manners. The arrival of a new nun will change everything. Turn everything upside down.

Bala Loca

A veteran journalist starting a news site about corruption in Chile stumbles on a big story when a fellow investigative reporter dies suspiciously.

Mi primera vez

Fictionalized stories based on real events about young people starting their sexual lives.

Cuenta Conmigo