Special Effects

A look behind the scenes that unites puppets, giant screens and the passion of the 31 Minutes: One Hot Christmas team, who achieve magical things.

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.

A stolen phone, bad decisions and many acts of clumsiness will force three neighbors from Gran Avenida – an area in the south of Santiago – to face each other.

Cristina and Susana have been best friends since high school. Now, both over 30 years old, they are still living like they did in their teenage years. Or maybe they never grew up.

Hugo becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, but their relationship is tested when Hugo finds a new job in the city.

After a head injury makes a dimwit stranger out Barbara's beloved Guille, she ceases to feel desire for him. Nearing 35, and longing for motherhood, she settles with a new partner, while the memory of lost love harrows her.

When a family's matriarch dies, four relatives are forced to confront decades of silence, resentment, and buried affection. Led by Alfredo Castro, this sharp ensemble balances humour and melancholy in a moving portrait of grief and reconciliation.

A few years ago, Nicolás Jaar wrote a story. That story turned into an album. This documentary explores his creative process and his reflections on sound, image, and walking.

In the middle of a noisy playground, three joyful and restless young adults, two men and one woman, dance, gesticulate and play. One of them goes to the camera: we are deaf–he tells us, moving hands and body in an eloquent language that we are glad to understand. Then one of them kisses his partner and the three of them laugh and laugh. They seem to tell us: we do not have sound problems.

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.