Movies: Catalina Saavedra

A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the other...

Pancha Illanes is the black sheep of her ladies' college, after the constant insistence of her boyfriend she accepts the proposal of selling marijuana at the college. What at first seems like an impossible mission, soon becomes an electrifying game...

Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a advent...

In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an...

A man wants to become a TV-star and he will try anything despite his advanced age and what everyone says about him and his lack of talent and charisma for the job. But while he starts getting closer to his goal, his house starts crowding with unwante...

Film inspired by the real story of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. Killed on July 2, 1986 during the first national protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet....

María Cartagena is a seasonal worker in the fruit fields of an arid valley in northern Chile, to bring sustenance to her daughter and disabled husband. During the hard workday she overcomes abuse and mistreatment driven by a powerful motivation: savi...

Three stories with surrealistic comedy elements: A Chilean kid who speaks only in German language; a man fighting with his mind about their way of living; and an old couple trying to solve a problem in silence....

In present-day downtown Santiago, in a shopping mall seemingly frozen in time, 55-year-old hairdresser Marta María faces an empty nest after her only daughter departs for a year in France. To cope with the loneliness, she immerses herself in her work...

A mother on the brink of blindness abandons her little daughter every day. The girl just wants to please her mother so it develops a macabre game to look like her. Until one day, the plan seems to have yielded results beyond all expectations....

Emilia (23), a young woman eager for independence, is finishing her university thesis with uncertainty. Her sense of stagnation leads her to seek an escape, promising herself that she can take control of her future by finally getting her driver's lic...

A couple with an empty life make up a story about the new maid, in order to satisfy their own sexual obsessions....

Matías (23) must go to convince some Mapuche communities to recover territories that the Chilean state has stolen from them. During the trip they warn him that the police are following him. Before recovering the territory, Matías learns that one of h...