
Directing
Dominga Sotomayor
Born
1985-01-01 (41)
Place of birth
Santiago, Chile
Known for
Directing
Credits
38 titles
Dominga Sotomayor is a Chilean director and screenwriter. She was born in Santiago de Chile in 1985. Her first feature film, ‘Thursday Till Sunday’ (2012), was developed at the Cinéfondation Résidence, won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and was named best film at IndieLisboa, New Horizons, and the Valdivia International Film Festivals. She co-directed ‘The Island’ (2013), which also claimed a Tiger Award. In 2015, her medium-length film ‘Mar’ had its premiere in the Forum section at the Berlin International Film Festival, and she also released ‘Aqui, Em Lisboa’, a collective film directed with Gabriel Abrantes, Denis Côté, and Marie Losier.
Known for
NRJose and Manuel are climbing the Montserrat mountain. They have not seen each other in some years, and they are in Spain for a funeral. It is a narrow, winding, uneven path up the mountain that makes communication difficult, until they reach an appropriate place to rest.
The Mountain
2008
5.6Drama told from the point of view of a live-in maid, working for a middle class couple with a young child, in the suburbs of Santiago, Chile.
Swim to Me
2025
6.0On a remote, wind-lashed island off the Chilean coast, Silvia earns her living harvesting seaweed and shares a quiet life with her partner. When she adopts a stray puppy, Yuri, her days fill with joy, love, and a tenderness that stirs a long-suppressed longing for motherhood. But Yuri’s sudden disappearance reawakens a haunting childhood trauma, forcing Silvia to confront a past she has never truly left behind.
La Perra
2026
5.3A rural police officer investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman's body. The prime suspect blames the crime on the appearance of a legendary monster.
Murder Me, Monster
2019
6.4Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members wander away from the house separately, confronting the sea and an unspoken fear that slowly consumes them.
The Island
2014
Film credits
Behind the camera
NRJose and Manuel are climbing the Montserrat mountain. They have not seen each other in some years, and they are in Spain for a funeral. It is a narrow, winding, uneven path up the mountain that makes communication difficult, until they reach an appropriate place to rest.
The Mountain
2008
NRJose and Manuel are climbing the Montserrat mountain. They have not seen each other in some years, and they are in Spain for a funeral. It is a narrow, winding, uneven path up the mountain that makes communication difficult, until they reach an appropriate place to rest.
The Mountain
2008
5.6Drama told from the point of view of a live-in maid, working for a middle class couple with a young child, in the suburbs of Santiago, Chile.
Swim to Me
2025
5.6Drama told from the point of view of a live-in maid, working for a middle class couple with a young child, in the suburbs of Santiago, Chile.
Swim to Me
2025
5.6Drama told from the point of view of a live-in maid, working for a middle class couple with a young child, in the suburbs of Santiago, Chile.
Swim to Me
2025
6.0On a remote, wind-lashed island off the Chilean coast, Silvia earns her living harvesting seaweed and shares a quiet life with her partner. When she adopts a stray puppy, Yuri, her days fill with joy, love, and a tenderness that stirs a long-suppressed longing for motherhood. But Yuri’s sudden disappearance reawakens a haunting childhood trauma, forcing Silvia to confront a past she has never truly left behind.
La Perra
2026
5.3A rural police officer investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman's body. The prime suspect blames the crime on the appearance of a legendary monster.
Murder Me, Monster
2019
6.4Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members wander away from the house separately, confronting the sea and an unspoken fear that slowly consumes them.
The Island
2014
A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members wander away from the house separately, confronting the sea and an unspoken fear that slowly consumes them.
The Island
2014
6.5In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.
Correspondence
2020
6.5In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.
Correspondence
2020
NRAn actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.
Los Barcos
2016
NRAn actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.
Los Barcos
2016
NRTwo women are traveling through a coast road, evading the pain left behind. The trip is interrupted when they see an old lady running at one side of the road, in front of the car. This encounter marks the beginning of the rest of their lives.
November
2007
NRTwo women are traveling through a coast road, evading the pain left behind. The trip is interrupted when they see an old lady running at one side of the road, in front of the car. This encounter marks the beginning of the rest of their lives.
November
2007
6.8Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Chile '76
2022
A child plays Wii tennis while his parents divvy up and and pack the furniture. One camera angle, one perspective, one situation, with a strong emotional charge. The child is immersed in the virtual world of the game while the real world stays off-screen.
Videogame
2009
6.0During a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
Too Late to Die Young
2019
6.0During a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
Too Late to Die Young
2019
6.0During a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
Too Late to Die Young
2019
7.0Brutal torturers of Pinochet's dictatorship are serving sentence in a luxury prison at the foot of the Andes. Fearing of transferring to a regular jail, the officers will go to great lengths to stay fury and violence in the mountains.
Prison in the Andes
2024
6.0Luciano is a special boy. He is 15 years old and he is obsessed with skies. This documentary its an invitation to live his fantasy of being a pilot for a day, and fly a Cessna.
Cessna
2006
4.2In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.
The Last Land
2016
8.0After a fire destructed my house, I return to the places where I grew up looking for childhood recollections. In this journey appears the memory of a photo for Karin Eitel, a young woman, tortured and detained during the dictatorship, to whom I owe my name. A story that my parents never told me, brings me closer to Karin and not just because of my name. In the background, the memory of a childhood in Chile, a country that reconstructed its democracy omitting its own history.
Story of My Name
2019
6.5As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a young Chilean girl slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Thursday Till Sunday
2012
6.5As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a young Chilean girl slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Thursday Till Sunday
2012
Summer of 1990. Chile and the world are going through great changes. In a small beach town off the Chilean coast, an eclectic group of teenagers, from very diverse social upbringings, are living their own transition to adulthood. These kids are actually guided by a director, who is trying to make a movie, and above all, to recreate an era that affected him, in a country where these kinds of social encounters are not possible anymore.
The Weeds on the Road
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5.0Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.
Here in Lisbon
2015
6.0Little Claire kills time with María, her Ecuadorian nanny, while waiting for her mother to arrive.
Apnea
2015
6.0While Thomas spends his last weekend in Chile with his family, before traveling abroad for the first time, a flaw in the sewage system produces a flood of smelly water. The problem shows the essence of family relationships.
First Born
2016
NRA woman and her grown daughter attempt to break quarantine in order to see her other daughter's newborn child.
Sin Titulo, 2020
2021
6.1Martin goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives. Lightning strikes and there is a car to disappear.
Mar
2014
6.1Martin goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives. Lightning strikes and there is a car to disappear.
Mar
2014
6.1Martin goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives. Lightning strikes and there is a car to disappear.
Mar
2014
Jaime, who’s been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house on the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse’s darkness.
Below
2007
Jaime, who’s been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house on the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse’s darkness.
Below
2007

