Fernando Lavanderos

Directing

Fernando Lavanderos

Born 1974-11-15 · Santiago, Chile

Fernando Lavanderos is a Chilean director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor. He was born in Santiago de Chile on November 15th (1974) . He has done fiction's and documentary's movies, which experienced and exceeds the line of their genre. His first huge success begin with his movie Y las vacas vuelan (2003), which its considerate as a real innovation in the Chilean Cinema. His second large-movie, Las Cosas como Son (2012) won 14 national's and international's first prices, in festivals like The Independent Camera Award of Karlovy Vary or The Festival de Cine de Mar del Plata.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Lost North poster
2.0

Esteban travels northern Chile in search of Isabel. His journey takes him across the desolate towns and colorful characters she came across and becomes his own odyssey of self-discovery.

Lost North

2015

Lost North poster
2.0

Esteban travels northern Chile in search of Isabel. His journey takes him across the desolate towns and colorful characters she came across and becomes his own odyssey of self-discovery.

Lost North

2015

Eterno: 100 años de Colo-Colo poster
NR

Eterno traces the history of Colo-Colo, the most influential sports club in Chilean history. It is the living memory of a country, the epic of a club that has endured tragedies and thrived with every triumph to become a symbol of national identity.

Eterno: 100 años de Colo-Colo

2025

Este año no hay cosecha poster
9.3

This documentary introduces us on the daily life of a group of kids who live on the street. Through the narrative and experiences of the protagonists, we discover the Latin American marginality hidden beneath a contemporary city like Santiago de Chile. The camera turns into another one of the group, eventually becoming part of this type of family life born from the tight friendship with which these kids survive.

Este año no hay cosecha

2000

Este año no hay cosecha poster
9.3

This documentary introduces us on the daily life of a group of kids who live on the street. Through the narrative and experiences of the protagonists, we discover the Latin American marginality hidden beneath a contemporary city like Santiago de Chile. The camera turns into another one of the group, eventually becoming part of this type of family life born from the tight friendship with which these kids survive.

Este año no hay cosecha

2000

No artwork available
NR

A man comes down from a train to find his girlfriend on the platform, but as she's not there he decides to wait for her while eating sandwiches of cheese and bell pepper that a girl at the train station makes for him.

Queso-Pimentón

2010

No artwork available
NR

At a bus stop, a boy has a brief moment with a girl.

I don't say goodbye, I hope to find you

1999

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

Y las vacas vuelan poster
6.0

Kai is a young Danish who walks the streets of Santiago to make a short film and as in a game of mirrors, it is recorded at the same time, leading him to participate in a film that also can be understood as a documentary.

Y las vacas vuelan

2004

Y las vacas vuelan poster
6.0

Kai is a young Danish who walks the streets of Santiago to make a short film and as in a game of mirrors, it is recorded at the same time, leading him to participate in a film that also can be understood as a documentary.

Y las vacas vuelan

2004

No artwork available
7.5

Two young men travel the city of Santiago during a working day in order to carry out a bureaucratic process. In their journey, they run into different urban characters as they talk about time and other "important" issues.

El cielo y la tierra son tan viejos como yo y las 10 mil cosas son una

1998

No artwork available
7.5

Two young men travel the city of Santiago during a working day in order to carry out a bureaucratic process. In their journey, they run into different urban characters as they talk about time and other "important" issues.

El cielo y la tierra son tan viejos como yo y las 10 mil cosas son una

1998

Las cosas como son poster
6.0

Jerónimo is an antisocial local man who rents rooms in his home to expats so he can snoop around their belongings. One day Sanna arrives, a girl who will change Jerónimo’s life. They start getting closer until Jerónimo discovers that Sanna is hiding something in his house.

Las cosas como son

2012

Las cosas como son poster
6.0

Jerónimo is an antisocial local man who rents rooms in his home to expats so he can snoop around their belongings. One day Sanna arrives, a girl who will change Jerónimo’s life. They start getting closer until Jerónimo discovers that Sanna is hiding something in his house.

Las cosas como son

2012