The Recovered Ghost
Ignacio (34) directs a documentary about the 30th anniversary of the Valparaíso Recovered Film Festival. Amid economic, creative, and family crises, he transforms the commission into an exploration of celluloid memory within the bodies that inhabit it.
Sea Oranges
A group of young, inexperienced filmmakers set out to make a documentary in San Juan, Chiloé. During their journey, they are welcomed by the Bahamonde family, through whom they get to know the mysticism, faith, and the daily tasks of living in a town where everything revolves around the sea.
Artificial Clouds
The enigmatic disappearance of the A.I. Aquarius prompts an investigation that follows its trail from the sea to the desert through cables and antennas. Along the way, different beings and stories emerge, opening questions about life in the world and its mysteries.
The Fool
El Necio is an audiovisual book that reconstructs, through notes and memories, the traces of Tirso Montiel, a police officer from Chiloé who became a guerrilla fighter in the 1960s and disappeared in Bolivia, reviving utopias in an insular territory shaped by modernization.
Metamorphosis of the Same: The Water Mirror
The naturalist Claudio Gay returns through filmmaker Ignacio Agüero’s body to search for a plant he failed to catalogue in 1830. His first stop: Lake Tagua Tagua, drained ten years after his visit. What he finds is no longer the lake but the Chilean countryside itself.
The Open Gate
After years of family silence, I return to the home of my uncle and grandmother. During my visit, I record an everyday life that reveals my uncle’s drug addiction. I set out to find him beyond his addiction, to find the son my grandmother still knows remains inside him.
A Tourist’s Manual
Tourists arrive daily at one of the main kitsch icons of the Chilean coast to recreate the same photograph before leaving, while a guard obsessively watches over the grass to make sure no one steps on it.
My old man’s dice
On 9/11/73 my great-grandfather Segundo witnessed the bombing of La Moneda from the Seguro Obrero. He vanished for days, returned in silence forever. Facing the impossibility of his testimony, I walk Santiago, talk to witnesses & roll dice searching his story against oblivion.
Los pájaros no saben que es domingo
In a settlement in Talagante, Chile, a group of children from different Latin American countries imagine traveling in a parked van to reunite with distant family members. Through this collective adventure, they explore migration, identity, and belonging.
Falling Waves
Forced to leave her island for secondary school in the city, Norma (13) finds refuge in boxing and an intense friendship. After her friend disappears and she seriously injures a classmate, she flees home, only to discover there is nowhere left to hide once the fight goes viral.
Yolanda
Yolanda (64), a respected podiatrist who leads a secret network of vigilante women, sees her world collapse when she discovers her daughter was abused by a member of their own family, forcing her to choose between revenge and breaking a cycle of violence.
Shedding Skin
LAURA (24) begins a complex gender transition. After losing the support of her partner and those around her, she finds refuge in CAROL (50), a brilliant trans woman with a history of addiction who becomes her only guide at a decisive moment in her life.
