Movies: Alberto Fuguet

Gastón Fernández has arrived at 34 without too much to show or brag about. He has no money, job, girlfriend, friends or life plan. He's a composer that doesn't compose. The one-time "most likely to succeed" at Santiago's Musical Conservatory has pass...

Peru, early 2000s. Alfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to work first as a journalist. He is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, a job from which he can know the nasty guts of tabloid publications....

Lucas travels to visit his sister to a remote town in southern Chile. In front of the ocean and the fog, he meets Antonio, a boatswain in a local fishing boat. When an intense romance grows between them, their strength, their independence and their a...

The film deals with the unforeseen effects generated by a young writer's suicide....

Exequiel is a physical education teacher who lives with his father in San Antonio at the same house in which he was born and raised. His life hasn't advanced much ever since, but the re-encounter with an old love and other struggles of life will make...

After moving into a new house with his friend, Vladimir starts to notice that he awakes every day in a different week as if he has traveled trough time. Could it be the popular local drink -- beer with eggs?...

Héctor travels from Hermosillo to Mexico City in the hopes of posing naked for photography collective Feral. His friend Carlos chooses not to go with him. Héctor, determined to experiment with his desire without limits, promises himself to always say...

Paco and Manolo are two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona who have been working together for thirty years as if they were a single person, capturing their images in Kink magazine, a very personal photography fanzine with a homoero...

It's Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to ...

Álvaro Infestas is a teacher, a young guy that has neglected his health. He will reencounter his motivations and friendships he abandoned some time ago, because he was in a long-lasting love affair, which left him in a kind of pause. Now that he is a...

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was shot; and its impact on the life of several people from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay related to film ind...

Ariel Roth is a 30-something graphic designer. He feels close to his Mac, his apartment and riding his bike at night. Ariel doesn't want too much out of life. Is that too much too ask?...

Emilio and Elisa, an ex-married couple, re-encounter at the entrance of a cinema. They haven't seen each other in years and know nothing about each other. They have a long walk in which they question what they are, what they want to be and what they ...

Paul Kazan can't sleep. He wanders through empty streets. Why is the city of Santiago empty. At night, Kazan is a DJ at the 'Insomnia' disco, one of the few places where there are people. Something is happening. Something weird. There are rumors. Ru...

Two brothers who never got along find themselves forced to share one of the most difficult experiences of life: they'll have to travel to Coquimbo to recognize the corpse of their father....

A defiant teenager starts to feel uncomfortable by his psychologist....

The bachelor Alvaro meets his son Santiago at the airport. Santiago has two hours before his plane leaves for Germany, where he is going to study. Both are nervous and their conversation is awkward, because they haven't seen each other for five years...

Alejandro Tazo, a 30-something Chilean, arrives at Nashville on a Greyhound bus from the West Coast. He has been mugged on board? Why is he here? How did he get here? What will he do in Music City?...

1986: Gangs of young people take over abandoned warehouses, lost ruins in the center of a city besieged by the dictatorship....