
Acting
Shlomit Baytelman
Born 1949-11-30 · Afula, Israel
Acting credits
7.2In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
No
2012
4.5When a prominent researcher in the field of human memory returns home, he stumbles upon the fact that a man's past, as he remembers and tells it, is often nothing but fiction.
Roman's Circuit
2012
NRChile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Secos is a short that makes this reality visible, through the dialog between anonymous fighters from the most heavily affected provinces, with renowned actors and actresses in the country. The objective is to activate the topic of water as a human right, to achieve in the future the recovery of this vital element as a common good for all communities and territories.
Secos
2017
A surreal Chilean road movie in which two wanderers come across an assortment of oddballs.
País de octubre
1990
NRSalvador moves to London from Chile to study English and travel around Europe at his parents’ expense. He stays with his aunt María, who makes a rather decent living renting the rooms of her house to other immigrants. Difficult and challenging situations will force Salvador out of his protected bourgeois reality and into the real world.
I Am From Chile
2014
6.5This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
Julio Begins in July
1979
NRA Chilean man travels to Sweden searching for the answer to a crime that involves his family.
The Imaginary State
2020
7.3Lupita, a young mexican girl, runs away from her family who want to commit her into a hospital. She will start a journey that will take us into a world that seems crazier than she is. With her sensuality, innocence and romanticism, Lupita invites us to think that the world can be experienced in other ways.
Have You Seen Lupita?
2012
NRHugo is a young man who has been left at the altar, in what was to be a three-day celebration arranged by his manipulative mother-in-law. In addition to keeping up with his overprotective father demands and crossing paths with an ex-girlfriend, he soon realizes that it is better to be alone.
Mejor estar solo
2014
6.2End of the 20's. Alfonso a young writer brought up in France, arrives to an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau. Here he meets the beautiful Claudina a sensual, strong willed chola, la "Misqui simi" ("The one with the sweet lips"). Uyuni radiates a strange magnetism, it is charged with a collective euphoria produced by the bewitching mineral. The lives of the characters enter a whirl of passion, ambition and frustration.
Los Andes no creen en Dios
2007
6.2In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.
Latent Image
1990
7.5A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.
Consuelo
1989
9.0A young, successful and attractive executive gets depressed after an unwanted pregnancy that will push her to take a look at her personal life, reconnecting once again with the man he used to love when she was a teen.
Antonia
2001
6.9An Argentine artist moves to Chile in search of a more stable life and a possible future for his profession. Thanks to his talent and arrogance will go far, but not for long...
Argentino QL
2016
4.8The successful singer Luis Dimas goes along with his driver, known as Takilleitor, touring the cities of Chile. They are joined by two former agents of the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), Chile's national intelligence service during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who are chasing a kind of wooden parrot containing a supposed political message.
Este mar sabe demasiado, Takilleitor
1998
NRThree actresses receive a text for an audition. The night before the event, the three women immerse themselves in reading and learning the text, a situation that will turn into a vivid and painful journey towards their own experiences of abandonment, loneliness and absences.
Chronicle of a Farewell
2018
NRRayen is a young theater student who has recently been infected HIV. She lives her illness in silence, as does her new gay friend: Manuel. Everything begins to get complicated when her ex-boyfriend Fiodor reappears after two years of absence and tries to seduce her
Ni una caricia
2010
NRAlejandra, a young single mother, lives with her young son in the house that belonged to the deceased's former great-grandmother, who they took care of for years. When Braulio, the boy's grandfather, decides to sell the house, Alejandra must find where to go, facing the dilemma of taking charge of her son or continuing to live the adolescent life to which she clings.
Perro muerto
2010