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- DirectorChristopher MurrayStarsBastián InsotrozaAna María HenríquezMauricio PintoMichael is an inhabitant of a remote village in the Chilean desert. But not any inhabitant. He is Christ.
- DirectorMarcelo MartinessiStarsNorma CodasMargarita IrunAna BrunMarcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
- DirectorMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsOscar MartínezDady BrievaAndrea FrigerioA winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
- DirectorDavid PablosStarsNancy TalamantesÓscar TorresLeidi GutiérrezYoung Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family's prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.
- DirectorMaría Elena WoodDocumentary about the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize, Gabriela Mistral, and her relationship with the American Doris Dana. Gabriela meets Doris when she thinks she cannot overcome the biggest tragedy of her life: the suicide of her only son. Doris, realizing that her partner will be gone soon, records the conversations with her in their Long Island house. These recordings will be the access to the affective universe of a woman who lives in permanent tension with her inner demons and whose sensitivity and ambition make her the protagonist of her time.
- DirectorNicolás EchevarríaStarsMaría Sabina"Maria Sabina, woman spirit", is the cinematic portrait of one of the most famous healers-shamans of Mexico.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto Gómez CruzBlanca GuerraAlejandro ParodiPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
- DirectorMiguel AlvearStarsAndrés CrespoIs there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.
- DirectorJosué MéndezStarsPietro SibilleMilagros VidalMarisela PuicónSantiago, a retired soldier who fought for his country, Peru, find it hard to adjust back to society while dealing with PTSD and family problems.
- DirectorAlejandro PelayoStarsArielle DombasleClaudio BrookMilosh TrnkaMexico, 1955. A beautiful and popular movie star, Miroslava Sternova (Dombasle) is depressed tonight. Sad memories fill her mind: her childhood in the pre-war Prague, one failed marriage, several attempts to be taken as a serious actress and the betrayal of the man she loved. As she prepares to commit suicide her entire life reveals itself on the screen, showing us the portrait of a lonely woman.
- DirectorRaúl RuizValeria SarmientoStarsLuis AlarcónPatricia RivadeneiraFrancisco ReyesThe 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.
- DirectorJuan Manuel RepettoStarsFausto CelaveMercedes TorbidoniEzequiel SantillánThe decision of a young autistic boy to enter to the Public University poses great challenges in the educational community of Argentina. Fausto performs admission course accompanied by his therapists, meanwhile his family and teachers are looking for the best way to integrate him in a process full of obstacles.
- DirectorMartín TurnesStarsErnesto BaffaJuan Carlos BagliettoJorge CarcavalloA teacher of the School of Popular Music in Avellaneda, together with his students, is digitizing around 500 original handwritten arrangements that are kept from Aníbal "Pichuco" Troilo orchesta. Through interviews to musicians from different generations and styles, this documentary makes a musical tour through The work of one the most fundamental characters in the history of Tango and Argentine music.
- DirectorMariano LuqueStarsMarcelo ArbachMariana BriskiCamila MuriasThey have been lucky, the camp site is located in a forest with an imposing landscape. The birds are singing gently and, luckily, there aren't many tourists. Nevertheless, Carmen and her husband Rafa aren't able to enjoy their holidays.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAdan JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyLeandro TaubSurrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsMariana Di GirólamoGael García BernalSantiago CabreraA couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
- DirectorIván OsnovikoffBettina PerutChola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.
- DirectorAldo FranciaStarsMarcelo RomoTennyson FerradaLeonardo PerucciA priest is so concerned about the harsh conditions of living of Chilean lower classes that he gradually becomes a political activist and 'worker-priest'.
- DirectorPaulo OrregoPaulo PaulistaStarsJorge BeckerMario HortonCamila Le-Bert'Six moments, common situations, broken lives, encounters, like the image in a kaleidoscope occur and disappear'
- StarsBélgica CastroIgnacio AgüeroÁngel ParraThe Recta Provincia is a kind of sect led by witches on the largest island in South America, the cradle of the founding myths of Chilean culture.
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsRaquel KarroRodrigo BolzanNeto MachadoThe loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.