Movies: Néstor Cantillana

In the winter of 1978, under Chile's military regime in Santiago, Raúl Peralta, a lonely and disabled architectural model maker, lives a quiet life with only his ailing mother and a pet canary for company. His routine is upended by the arrival of new...

After the tragic loss of their 4-year-old son, Javier and Amanda struggle to make sense of their lives together....

Celeste is a carefree 15-year-old coming of age after the fall of Pinochet when her life changes drastically and unexpectedly. Now, the desert and oceanside she once embraced feels alien. In an uncertain nation going through a transition of its own, ...

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV...

Ana has just been widowed by a suicidal painter. One day, she discovers a painting in which he painted her in a disturbing way. Ana begins to obsess about how he saw her, developing a psychotic picture....

The most successful and famous bank robber in Chilean history. Now, convinced that he has been the victim of other people's mistakes, he decides to return to crime to take revenge for his fate....

A thief asks his wife to visit him in prison, she goes without imagining that he is planning his escape....

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football....

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Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts....

Nino is a spoiled child who, immersed by a strong fever, is absorbed by a mysterious painting. Even though his mother had warned him, the trick that made him fall prey of the painting is unleashed. And so, Nino does nothing but get lost in a maze of ...

The fatal relationship between Gracia, the teenage daughter of a retired general officer and Gabriel, an outsider who has just come back to his home at the beach with his father, a leftist militant....

When Camilo and his girlfriend, Pola, start to struggle in their relationship, she asks for a week away from him to assess the situation. Although Camilo agrees, he feels confused, as his undemanding life is made uncomfortable for the first time. Soo...

A couple decides to end their relationship and look for the perfect way to tell their son Samir, who surprises them, because he actually knows a lot more than they think they do about what is happening....

At 68 years old and due to the depression and anguish that partly come with being an old man in exile in Sweden, Igor and his memories will decide where to go next....

Camila is a Law student who will take an exam where a teacher who abused her a year ago will be present. A round of questions will change the paradigm of the protagonists because Camila decides to tell the truth...

Transvestite is the character David must play for the annual school play. Bullying will be his main enemy as he plays the character....