Movies: Pedro Chaskel

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SOMOS + follows a political demonstration by women who rise up with a unified voice against Pinochet’s military regime....

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A poet recites his verses. The people who listen to him, inspired by him, form the Spring Party, which later becomes the Spring Army. It is decided to eliminate possible opponents. The poet is considered an enemy and is shot....

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A boy goes to his friend's funeral procession. When he realizes that his grave does not have flowers like the others, and that he does not have money to buy them, he goes out looking for some in the streets of Santiago....

A docudrama based on the family planning policies for the population with limited resources. A low-income lady resorts to clandestine ways to get an abortion......

A poetic film that records the excavations carried out by Swiss ethnologist Jean Christian Spahni at the mouth of the Loa River. Through the bone remains and objects found, the testimony of the Chango indigenous people is revealed....

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The documentary frames the reactions of Rapa Nui's people following the screening of -at that time- a presumed lost film involving their territory....

A documentary about the activities carried out by the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees: We see presentation of writs of protection, reports, criminal actions, hunger strikes, pacific protests, public acts. The place where minors, the child...

A documentary about the consequences of consuming alcohol and how it works as a weapon of the bourgeoisie to appease the thirst of the people....

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Between April and June 2006, nearly one million Chilean high school students captivated the nation as they organized in protest and temporarily placed many schools on strike....

Detailed record of the operative technique used by Professor Dr. Alfonso Asenjo to perform surgery on a patient with Parkinson's disease at the Hospital de Neurocirugía de Santiago....

La Revuelta accounts for the tension experienced by those who, as of October 2019, came out to express their social discontent. The work has as its main stage, renamed by the people, as "Plaza de la Dignidad". It is a choral story, woven with the re...

A collage of images showing the two faces of a society. That of poverty and that of wealth. Throughout the documentary, this antagonism is shown: populations in unhealthy conditions, and on the other hand, large showcases with mannequins....

Latin American children, children of exiles and political prisoners, tell of their experiences of integration in Cuba, sharing their memories from exile and ideas on politics and education. Filmed in Havana in February 1979, the International Year of...

Confused faces of children, women and men when asked about the meaning of “eviction”, “unemployment”, “begging”, “gambling” and “racial discrimination”, all problems eradicated in Cuba after the 1959 Revolution. Survey filmed in Havana between May 2 ...

Documentary about the iconic portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara by Cuban photographer Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez (known as 'Korda')....