Mayra Morán

An evening among friends turns into an emotional battlefield when a couple's tension leads everyone to question the strength of their bonds.

Gathered in a shelter in an Ecuadorian forest, adolescent victims of sex trafficking take their tentative first steps in their newly recovered lives.

Visual essay based in on the filmmaker experience, when a spinal cord injury forced her to surrender her body over the clinical gaze. Reveries as a resistance, travelling through her body slowly being released.

In northern Chile, Leonel Codoceo (58), a lonely security guard for a mining company, dedicates his free time to unveil the mysteries of extraterrestrial life. Confident in the existence of beings from another planet, Leonel organizes what will be the first UFO vigil open to the public in an emblematic place in the Atacama Desert. At the same time, he prepares for the arrival of Sara (57), his ex-wife, who will arrive in Copiapó from Australia to remarry him. Under the starry blanket of the night sky and the immensity of the desert, Leonel will seek to make contact for the first time.

Ernesto is a security guard at a supermarket where he spends every day watching customers through surveillance cameras. At night, he changes his guard uniform for Carver's suit and patrols the neighborhood until Alicia proposes a real case: hunt down the drug dealer who killed her brother.

Nicolás Molina’s visually astounding Pirópolis drops the viewer in the fiery port city of Valparaíso, Chile and observes a pack of determined volunteer firefighters as they band together to combat turbulent wildfires ravaging the city.

A father took photos during the Chilean dictatorship. His daughter plays with him in the darkroom, developing other images. Images to resist and invent other futures.

The list of fantastic, mythical animals compiled by Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 18th century work Systema Naturae could well be the seed of Niles Atallah’s Animalia Paradoxa – an eccentric tale set in a post-apocalyptic world that follows a strange creature struggling to survive. Dressed in rags and a gas mask, moving like an alien dancer, Animalia roams through an abandoned building – crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic, waste. She laboriously carries and fills up an array of empty bottles to enjoy a modest bath. The camera eye lingers on her with compassion and explores the architectures of trash at an agonising pace. We know in our hearts that Animalia is a human-amphibian longing for the sea…

An enigmatic figure, half-goddess, half-child, combining the smoothness of a doll and the materiality of clay, will be our guide as we cross time and space, and our history. - N. Feodoroff

Muñeca wanders through Santiago streets with his comrades, All them tired from work and unhappiness, go in the search of a party or just a reason to celebrate.Little by little things began to unveil the experiences and the different points of view that each one has about work, the city and life ...

When his cross-dressing teenage son suffers a brutally violent attack, a mannequin-factory manager desperately seeks help and, when none can be found, is forced to take matters into his own hands.

A dialogue between the collective and the personal, a living memory that combines the dreams and realities of the Haitian community residing in Chile. This dialogue is guided by the voice of Wilner Petit-Frère, a Haitian immigrant who observes and captures, in a print publication, the society where he ended up living in this stage of his life.

Claudina is a repressed woman from the countryside. After her husband passes away, she meets Elsa, a married woman with whom she discovers real love. In a little conservatory town in the south of Chile, obsessed with UFO sighting, she starts a new journey.

An inevitable march, an exodus or an exile. A town that is abandoned and remembered. On the way, perhaps, there is an end.

12 years ago, Rolf suffered a violent accident that caused him severe amnesia. During his long rehabilitation, Rolf had to rebuild his identity from scratch and, while doing so, he invented a flying machine that would give him the freedom of a bird. In a very intimate following of a four year period we discover Rolf´s way of perceiving the world and the contradictions of a character who suffers at discovering that he has fathered two girls and that he has to make up his mind either at becoming an adult or persuing his life long dream of the flying machine.

Iris and Ariel are 17-year-old twins, who live with their mother and older sister in an old house in the middle of a rocky island covered with molluscs and birds. The teenagers have grown up isolated from the mainland, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. The abrupt absence of their mother deeply wounds the three siblings, and Iris, moved by a strong need of separating herself from her brother, decides to go alone to the city for the first time.

Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.

In the midst of a convulsed country, a group of people attend a poetry workshop that can last only one night,taught by the renowned academic David Sanhueza.

Raquel is a teacher who resists the idea of retiring. One day she has to teach a class at her old school, only to find out she has been replaced with someone much younger. She insists still on teaching, and gets the support of her former students who will occupy the classroom demanding her reinstatement, leading to a small revolution that will threaten the establishment's order.