Manuel Vlastelica

Nieves runs a swimming pool with her son Martin. One summer, a biker falls for her. Things between them don’t seem to work out, until a filming crew arrives at the pool while scouting for locations and the director decides to put Natacha and the biker in her film.

In some distant place in Patagonia, NAZARIO (46) takes a lamb to his lair, where he strips it of its meat and guts. After the butchering, he throws the animal's skin into the river, unaware that dark magic will make it reborn to take revenge in a card game, where Nazario's life will now be at stake.

Josefina lives trapped in a relationship, hiding her true feelings from her husband. However, an afternoon, in the company of a couple of strangers, the anger inside her will come to light in the least thoughtful way.

Presente is a reinterpretation of space, an evocative memory where connections and chance establish a flow between the urban and the familiar landscape.

While a gamer uploads a testimonial video to denounce the harassment she suffers in a video game, a stranger enters her home and hacks her computer, blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.

Set in Chilean Patagonia, the magical tale explores Nicolas' addiction to video games, and his path to healing when he meets a local shaman on the day of a Solar Eclipse.

A depressed musician has one night to stop his ex and their shared cat from boarding a plane to Mexico and leaving him forever.

In the near future, María faces the unexpected death of her husband after New Year's Eve. After being depressed for some time due to this sudden loss, she goes to a place where, through a simulation, they manage to recreate their last important memory together, where she manages to have a connection with him.

Seven Kawésqar still live in Puerto Edén. They are the last descendants of a nomadic people who inhabited the southern sea of Chile. Juan Carlos Tonko, together with his mother Gabriela, his wife Carolina, and three of his children, embarks on a voyage to the lands of his childhood to repeat the initiation rite as a hunter for Tomás, his youngest son, which will guide him into adulthood and also to Kawésqar survival in the archipelagos.

Jean is a young Haitian man who works doing house duties for a wealthy household, but his wishes for a quiet and dignified job become interrupted when his boss starts sexually abusing him. Jean will have to decide whether to quit his job and renounce the income to support his family or keep enduring the assaults.

An unhappy art student feels deeply disturbed and is unable to sleep. One morning, she hears the trumpeting of an eagle that seems to herald unusual times, which is further materialized with the finding of a copy of The inmaculate conception, the book by Paul Eluard and André Breton, in her apartment's incinerator.

Following the instructions of a dream, Flavia sets out to make a film about the Chilean Antarctic. Mixing together Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Pinochet, this film also features an unforgettably hilarious interview with Nanni Moretti! Creative and anarchic cinema at its very best.

Christmas Eve. A woman leaves her car abandoned in the parking lot of Natacha and Germán, who constantly argue over economic issues while their three children roam the city, looking for money to feed street dogs. Natacha can’t stop thinking about what could have happened to that woman, while her children end up getting into real trouble.

Leonardo (36) arrives to Lolol in search of the hot springs he visited as a child. There, he meets Catalina (33), with whom he forms an unexpected connection. Lolol's countryside inhabitants intertwine with their journey.

Francisca and Sofía, an open couple, meet Anaís, a young Turkish woman, with whom they establish a beautiful friendship that makes them question their own relationship.

It's summer, school is over and what should be the beginning of a time of fun and enjoyment, for a group of friends seems to be the beginning of some kind of sunset because of the serious illness of one of them.

During a school trip to the beach, Adrián experiences a glistening revelation after sparking a fight with Isma.

In a fishing village contaminated by a thermoelectric power plant, Mecha (33) is the grieving soul of an environmental activist who died under suspicious circumstances. The day after his death, she tries to reconcile with her son Juan (16) and to make him take charge of her memory.

In the middle of the social crisis and repression in their country –Chile–, Leonor and Manuel have an ongoing relationship that has hit rock bottom. Due to the uprising, a curfew has been imposed, and Nico spends the night with the couple, twisting things up. The next morning, engulfed in fear of what’s happening outside and confused about their own relationship, Leonor and Manuel learn how to live and take care of each other in the midst of these unknown and frightful times.

A cold,husband has his marriage on the verge of failure. One day he will begin an affair with an eccentric and impulsive woman who will awaken the sensitive and affected man who slept in him. But this new attitude of his will make his wife believe that he is interested in her again, reliving the relationship. Thus, when the situation becomes untenable, the husband must make a difficult decision between moving forward with his recovered marriage or go along with a vertiginous romance that could make him a better person.

When seven-year-old Carolina wades through her novel family’s frenzied reunion in hopes of gifting her new stepfather a birthday card, she learns that to the party's adults, she is little more than decoration.

In a dystopian Chile, during Pascual's birthday (18), his friends come up with a game: to do a panty hunt in the building where the single women have just arrived. Pascual cheats to avoid hurting a woman and is discovered by the 19-year-old Zángano, who threatens him by telling him that if he doesn't hurt a woman, he will hurt his younger sister Olivia, aged 12.

A writer, who wants to make a film about today's Chile, departs from the usual forms of filming to grasp the mystery of things. He approaches the desired film, in the middle of a relationship crisis, caused by Marcy, a disturbing woman-child who drags him into a fascinating crazy-love relationship. And because the writer understands that true creation involves detaching himself from any subjection to the practical world and accepting the catastrophic as a form of secular holiness, he performs, in the end, an act of immense generosity.