Movies: José Luis Torres Leiva

During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vac...

Daniel and Alejandra, a working class couple in their late 30s, move to the countryside near the Andes Mountains to begin the next chapter of their life together. Alejandra is ill, and Daniel looks after her, his soul mate. He scratches out a living ...

Lucía is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile. The film occurs in December 2006 during the weeks that take place from the ex-dictator Pinochet’s funeral to Christmas Eve. Th...

An atmospheric portrait of four women who leave the factory where they work to go to the beach....

Ten segments linked to a primary idea: an evocation of the early cinema images....

Is set in the figure of a transhumant muleteer who once a year takes more than a thousand sheep up into the heart of the Andes Mountains. Accompanied by six men and ten dogs, he crosses forests, cliffs and rivers in search of food for his livestock, ...

Collage based on the texts and lives of Diane Arbus, Jean Eustache, Robert Walser, Alejandra Pizarnik, Franz Kafka and Carmen Jung....

A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change irremediably and that keeps the memory of thousands of secret stories, hidden in its streets, houses and corne...

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In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the machine turn, except when he is a machine himself, like when he delivers blows on the punching-ball. A machine...

Blind and deaf people converse, question, surprise and educate each others. Fingers move about quickly, translation follows promptly, both visible and audible, hands get touched and squeezed, and out of their tactfulness, sentences, stories, reserve ...

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A small tribute in memory of the filmmaker Raúl Ruiz....

Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film. These conversations are related to images in the d...

Two women who have spent their whole lives together must deal with the illness affecting one of them. The sick woman decides not to have treatment and they move into a cabin in the woods to wait for the day that death will come into their lives. The ...

Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the most important works of his career and motivations....

Everything resides in the mind of Lois, schizophrenic artist and a strong follower of Virginia Woolf, who says, "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind." The protagonist gives life to the story, confronting h...

Formal exercise on the use of the foreground and the configuration of the world through detail....

3 new songs by the Chilean musician Leo Quinteros....

Marcelo Muñoz Salcedo, a 40-year-old man from Santiago, reveals the physical and nutritional routine to which he submits in order to stand out in bodybuilding. Behind prejudices and methodical training, his story entails a humble and courageous openn...