Green Grass

In 1895, during the genocide of the Selk'nam people, 165 Indigenous people were captured in Chilean Patagonia and their children given to colonists as servants. A century later, a young Selk'nam woman, driven by a painful family history, returns to her territory to prove that they are not extinct.

Alejandro, a freshman, and Sofia, who’s doing her thesis, meet in college. They build an asymmetrical relationship: he’s in love while she just wants to see her sexual desires fulfilled.

While Thomas spends his last weekend in Chile with his family, before traveling abroad for the first time, a flaw in the sewage system produces a flood of smelly water. The problem shows the essence of family relationships.

In a small house, in the middle of impossing Patagonia, lives Casimira (80), and old women with a friendly look who spends her days in the middle of different tasks in the field. Her daily life is hard and she must ask for help for some tasks, but in spite of everything she will keep her independence with conviction and she will start a final challenge.

The human being is born within a certain context, many things germinate on his way and his consciousness opens and closes on countless occasions. Along the way he discovers that the rational path is not the main source of vitality and realizing this he continues his journey until death.

Marcelo (12) spends his days between football and games, imagining that everything is field and that life on the street is not as difficult as in reality. All of his movements are recounted by two expert sports commentators. The match starts! And Marcelo will do the impossible to make the best move of his life: get the same shoes as his soccer idol.

On a deserted beach, a little guy embarks on a mysterious ship. This is how his journey starts, a journey between dream and reality.

Joaquin (11) lives with his grandmother into Tenglo Island. Each day he prepares breakfast and gives her her medication. One day, they run out of medecine, and the little boy has to go buy drugs in the city. Joaquin runs long trails, forests and beaches to reach the boat and cross to Puerto Montt. There he realizes that he lost his money and continues to the city. Under the pressure and rhythm of the environment, the child after passing through several pharmacies, innocently decides to rob one, without worrying of what he steels. Finally he runs to the safety that the island gives.

Gonzalo takes care of his exhausted mother while the tension in his home is growing because his father doesn't accept his homosexuality, the painful moments are frequent and the rage grows up in Gonzalo, until the moment when he must choose whether to save his family, or let it burn in the middle of a voracious fire in the hill where he lives.

An immigrant must work to develop his acting career after the loss of his wife, the surprise death of his father and being invaded by insects in the middle of a pandemic with different social events happening around the world.

Drinking water has run out on the planet and a little girl does everything she can to keep her goldfish alive with the last bottles of water she has hidden, until the day she runs out of the last bottle.

Hayashi, a typical white-collar japanese worker, lives passively the ravages of the daily routine in Tokyo. Little by little his personal life is revealed and in it loneliness and frustration are discovered within a society in which work never stops.

Over a hundred years since the publication of the sociological text, La mala vida en Madrid, that coined the term in Spain, what does it mean to be a ‘lowlife’? Eye-catching, almost otherworldy and unashamedly provocative, this commentary on class, sexuality and urban stratification appropriates the pathologising label of ‘Other’ to shine a light on the explosion of ‘lifeforms’ in the Spanish capital today. Featuring the clever use of 8mm to create a surreal, pseudo-documentary look that draws in and distances simultaneously, Madrid, Bad Life is a sophisticated and thought-provoking high-concept work.

A story of a chilean family through vHS tapes and interviews in the present day. Drama and comedy to explain the estrangement between family members.

Luis, a private tutor, is invited to a family dinner at the fancy house where he works. What starts as a peaceful evening is soon overshadowed by the conflicts within this dysfunctional family. After a power outage, five masked youths break into the house instilling panic in the place. Luis tries to protect the family, but he quickly finds himself threatened by James, the most violent of the assailants, whose hidden motivations will challenge our understanding of justice.

12C, an 80-year-old man finds himself locked in a room full of old objects. There he remembers his search for happiness by chasing a small flower, in desolate places, with the help of the kind Pigmenta. Along the way he confronts Goliath the Tyrant, unleashing a beautiful tragedy.