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Toque (2023)
Character: N/A
On the night of October 19, 2019, a total curfew is issued in Chile because of the popular revolt. Andres ignores the order and goes out to look for his daughter, who has gone out to protest. The military coup awakens a deep fear in him: in a conversation, it is revealed that Andres is not the girl’s father, drastically changing the course of the story.
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Dawson Isla 10 (2009)
Character: N/A
After the 1973 coup that deposed Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile, the former members of his cabinet are imprisoned on Dawson Island, the world's southernmost concentration camp. Here these men are determined to survive and provide history with their testimony.
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El año del tigre (2013)
Character: Manuel
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
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Necesito saber (2015)
Character: N/A
Maria, a doctor from Santiago serves in a rural hospital in Southern Chile. When 12 years-old Paola visits the hospital, Maria finds out about her terrible secret. Suspecting a family drama, Maria decides to follow the girl to her home.
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10:17 (2016)
Character: Hector
Waiting for a woman an unknown woman to arrive at his hotel, Hector questions himself if he should go through with his current plan.
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La Visita del Cangrejo (2012)
Character: Sergio (padre)
Toño, a 17-year-old teenager is forced to spend a weekend at the house of his father Sergio, whom he has not seen for years. There he feels alien and despite the clumsy efforts that Sergio makes to please him, the relationship does not progress. But when Toño sees him interact with his neighborhood, at the welcome from his old friend, Cangrejo; he begins to accept him and questions the years that he has been distant.
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Argentino QL (2016)
Character: Taxi Driver
An Argentine artist moves to Chile in search of a more stable life and a possible future for his profession. Thanks to his talent and arrogance will go far, but not for long...
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Isidora (2012)
Character: N/A
Isidora immerses itself, in the manner of a journey through time and space, in the life of Chilean playwright Isidora Aguirre (1919-2011) and in the main ones of her 30 plays, which are recreated on screen by outstanding actors. Mixing family archives, life diaries and interviews she gave at the age of 91, the film becomes the creative biography of the author of La Pergola de las Flores, her most famous work, and opens the door to the social and political issues she narrated in her theater, the utopias that could not be and the conflicts that are still ongoing in Latin America.
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Cesante (2003)
Character: Evangelical preacher (voice)
Carlos Meléndez is unemployed, and finding himself without basic services such as gas, water and electricity. For twelve hours, he will have to endure and battle against the various ills of a congested city - bureaucratic secretaries of ill will, punk criminals, policemen, among others- in order to seek the respect of his peers.
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Negocio redondo (2001)
Character: El Chico Mario
After a long absence, Negro Torres returns to his hometown, in Cunco, to attend his mother's funeral. There, his old cronies propose him to set up a business to buy seafood and then sell them. After improvising the preparations and returning to the town with the seafood, they face a big surprise
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Aguas milagrosas (2007)
Character: Camilo
A con man turns around the lives of a mother and her three children when a fake miracle becomes real.
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Huesos Rotos (2014)
Character: Manuel Gonzalez
Manuel González a victim of human rights make an emotional journey to the past to complete the circle of life visiting his hometown Tomé, in Chile.
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Espiral del silencio (2019)
Character: N/A
Sebastián, a psychology student, is accused by his faculty of causing his ex-girlfriend's suicide. While trying to prove his innocence, a deep sense of guilt consumes him and prevents him from defending himself.
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Dominio Vigente (2021)
Character: Taxi Driver
The Swiss-Chilean citizen Carlos Kindermann has returned to the Araucania region in Chile after 47 years. He returns to his childhood land, from which he was torn away before his adolescence. Not even the 3,000 thousand hectares of valuable territory he comes to receive as an inheritance from his recently deceased father can reverse the physical and mental exhaustion he brings from Europe. Kindermann wants to sell quickly and forget as soon as possible this unwanted journey. Events however, slowly disintegrate this desire and push the character to a crossroads of life and death, between two openly excluding world views.
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Te llamabas Rosicler (2002)
Character: Aníbal Maturana
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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The Goatherd (2009)
Character: The Goatherd
Three friends go hiking for the weekend, but what begins as an innocent walk in the open air becomes the ultimate test of friendship, love and survival.
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Límite (2005)
Character: N/A
A young detective must take charge of a dark and dangerous counterfeiting money case.
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Barrio Universitario (2013)
Character: Profesor Guajardo
In the midst of the battle between a humble technical center and a powerful university for the award to build a robot to Chile, love arises.
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Sal (2012)
Character: Pascual
A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for.
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Paraíso B (2002)
Character: Esteban
Leo and Pedro are childhood friends. Rhey work under the orders of "El Jefe", a thug, owner of the neighbourhood and the lives of its inhabitants. One day, Leo receives news that will change his life forever, Gloria, Pedro's sister and the love of his life, returns to the city. Leo and Gloria will walk through their memories, in an attempt to recover their lost love.
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Talión (2016)
Character: Amusement park operator
Mirubin, the enigmatic masked, stands up against the inefficient justice. He dares to put up against the government, punishing pedophiles. It is a personal war. Does it make Mirubin a criminal? The journalist Amira is determined to uncover the truth behind the mask. The search leads her to doubt whether she is on the right side or not.
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Azul y Blanco (2004)
Character: Ona
When enemy members of the two main Chilean soccer teams, Azul and Paloma meet in a fight after a soccer game they fall in love at first sight. They run away through the night in the streets of Santiago, while two groups search for them, when they meet, happens the inevitable.
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Hijo de Trauco (2014)
Character: Alejo
A 14-year-old skeptical young man one day discovers that everything he knows about his father is a lie.
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Alma (2015)
Character: Nino
Fernando is married to Alma, a very funny woman with bipolar disorder, which kicks him when she learns that he no longer supports her. When Alma meets an Argentine suitor Fernando reacts discovering that still love her. But it's too late.
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El verano del león eléctrico (2018)
Character: 'El León'
In a house far from Santiago de Chile, little Alonso tries to change the fate of his sister Daniela, still just a child, who is about to become the seventh wife of the Lion of Judah, a supposed prophet, leader of a cult, who apparently provides electricity when he is touched.
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Mi último round (2011)
Character: Emiliano
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.
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Neruda (2014)
Character: Juanito
The 1948 speech called "Yo Acuso" resulted in Pablo Neruda going under hiding for 13 months and the police searching intensively for him.
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Fuga (2006)
Character: Dubó
Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.
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Magic Magic (2013)
Character: Bernardo
In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.
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La fiebre del loco (2001)
Character: Jorge
When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El Canuto also wrangles to get into good stead with an old flame, Sonia, who is now the proprietor of "La Pincoya," a local restaurant. But "el loco" proves more effective, and more damaging, than anyone could have guessed.
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Un lugar llamado Dignidad (2021)
Character: Pastor
Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Colonia Dignidad established in Chile by German settlers. It seems to be quite a privilege for a kid like him, and he quickly becomes the favourite of the leader of the colony, Uncle Paul. Over time, Pablo witnesses some kind of strange things which happen there and make him act differently than the other students.
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La Ola (2025)
Character: Don Cantarino
A Chilean student becomes involved in a feminist movement at her university. Suddenly, she becomes a central figure in the movement.
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La nana (2009)
Character: Eric
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
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Pacto de fuga (2020)
Character: Hugo Salgado
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
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Mala leche (2004)
Character: Marmota
Two marginal youths who are friends fail miserably on their first drug transaction. Risking their lives, they embark on an uncontrolled crime spree in order to repay the money within two days.
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La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (2025)
Character: Clemente
As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
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El baile de la victoria (2009)
Character: Rigoberto Marín
Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve is tested when he meets 19 year old Angel a young thief who insists the two join up to score the biggest heist of all time. Though tempted, he resists until he finds out that his beloved wife has gone off with a millionaire and his son wants to change his last name. Then Victoria, a graceful and mysteriously mute dancer living in a conservatory, steps into the picture. She captivates Vergara and Angel, as well as all others that cross her path, drastically changing their lives.
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Coronación (2000)
Character: René
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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Desconectados (2022)
Character: Hardware Store Customer 2
Victoria, a mother addicted to the internet and work, is completely disconnected from her two teenage children, Clara and Julián. Just when he is about to receive that long-awaited promotion, a solar storm leaves the entire world without internet, indefinitely. With her ex-husband stranded in another country, she is faced with the reality that she has to be a mother without the help of apps or the internet.
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Los versos del olvido (2018)
Character: Hairdresser
When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns.
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La contadora de películas (2023)
Character: Proyeccionista
María Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they all go to the movies to enjoy stories that let them escape their everyday lives by transporting them to other worlds. The girl’s parents soon realise that the little girl has a very special gift: an almost uncanny ability to recount movies. The girl’s extraordinary talent will spread throughout the village, changing the fortunes of her family as the country is transformed forever.
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Machuca (2004)
Character: Ismael Machuca
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
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El silencio del mar (2024)
Character: Miguel
As a strange disease spreads across a polluted coastal area, a young forensic cleaner looks after her sick sister.
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Neruda (2016)
Character: N/A
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
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Cabros de mierda (2017)
Character: Tito
Chile, 1983. Gladys is a brave young woman who lives in La Victoria, a marginal neighborhood of Santiago with her mother and daughter during the Pinochet dictatorship. One day they receive a young missionary, Samuel Thompson, who, with his camera, records how the population lives in such an adverse scenario.
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El Santo Oficio (2025)
Character: N/A
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.
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