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La buena vida (2008)
Character: Agustín Letelier
In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.
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Tendida mirando las estrellas (2004)
Character: Client
Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.
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Antonia (2001)
Character: Carlos
A young, successful and attractive executive gets depressed after an unwanted pregnancy that will push her to take a look at her personal life, reconnecting once again with the man he used to love when she was a teen.
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Todo por nada (1989)
Character: Antonio
A low-income and young supermarket promoter wants to climb positions in the world of television and advertising. Advised by a friend, the girl begins to look for opportunities hooking up with to as many influential men as she can: a successful publicist, a young photographer, a television animator and a manager top the list of sexually favored stars by the promiscuous promoter. The rest is an endless repetition of sneaky and farces, all about denouncing the corruption and superficiality of the television medium
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Vías paralelas (1975)
Character: Burócrata, Gerente
A former public-services worker wants to return to his job. In the attempt, he meets wandering people, who seek "parallel ways" of survival in a chaotic socio-political context in Chile, after the 1973 Coup d'état .
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Santiago Violenta (2014)
Character: Mauro's Father in law
Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.
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Secretos (2008)
Character: N/A
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.
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Vacaciones en familia (2014)
Character: Susana's Husband
The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.
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Te llamabas Rosicler (2002)
Character: Ignacio
After an accident that left her in terrible conditions Rosicler, a former starlet, is being taken care by an old man. While she dreams of dancing again, he only wants her to accept reality.
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El otro round (1984)
Character: Abogado
"Dinamita" Araya is living the crudeness of normality in an uneventful life since he retired from boxing. A chance encounter with a woman brings him back to life. The other round now takes place on life itself.
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El cumplimiento del deseo (1994)
Character: Santiago
A sleepwalking psychology student wants to recover an unknown image of herself. Like a lost soul, she search her image among the dead. Only then she will fulfill her wish.
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Cofralandes, rapsodia Chilena (2002)
Character: Museum of Nothing Guide
An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".
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El lugar encantado (2014)
Character: N/A
A married professor of music has a normal life until the day he meets an unusual women, 20 years younger than he. He gets involved in a love relation with her. At the beginning everything looks normal, nevertheless after some time with her, he begins questioning his whole life, breaking with the comfortable and conventional existence he used to have.
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La telenovela errante (2018)
Character: Uncle / Radio Host
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
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La noche de enfrente (2012)
Character: Boss
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
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Ángeles (1990)
Character: University Professor
A group of college students gradually disappear, with no explanation.
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Cachimba (2004)
Character: Cultural Deputy
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.
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Días de campo (2004)
Character: Don Federico (60 years old)
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
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Tierra de sangre (2014)
Character: Juan
The legend of the 'Tierra De Sangre' vineyard... A tale that takes place a century ago, where love and death collide, and the mystery is darker than anyone could possibly imagine.
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Coronación (2000)
Character: Jaime
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
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Calzones rotos (2018)
Character: Dr. Alberto
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.
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Palomita blanca (1992)
Character: Cristián, Juan Carlos' brother
A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army. The film was shot in 1973 over six weeks with a budget of $170,000. As a result of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and military dictatorship (1973–1990), the film was presumed lost for many years and not released until 1992.
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El realismo socialista (2023)
Character: N/A
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.
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Julio comienza en julio (1979)
Character: Journalist
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
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Imagen latente (1990)
Character: N/A
In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.
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