Directing

Sergio M. Castilla

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Gringuito poster
6.3

Ivan is a kid whose family decides to go back to Chile from New York, after at least a decade away. Ivan of course is not quite the Chilean kid his grandparents would like him to be: he sulks, misses the Opera, finds things odd and ugly, acting like a real "little gringo" (hence the title).

Gringuito

1998

Gringuito poster
6.3

Ivan is a kid whose family decides to go back to Chile from New York, after at least a decade away. Ivan of course is not quite the Chilean kid his grandparents would like him to be: he sulks, misses the Opera, finds things odd and ugly, acting like a real "little gringo" (hence the title).

Gringuito

1998

No artwork available
10.0

A girl looking for her father finds families she needs.

The Girl in the Watermelon

1994

No artwork available
10.0

A girl looking for her father finds families she needs.

The Girl in the Watermelon

1994

Gentille Alouette poster
8.5

Gentille Alouette is a 1990 French-Chilean film written and directed by Sergio Castillo. Geraldine Chaplin stars as an actress in Paris that is stalked by a Latin American colonel played by Hector Alterio. The colonel (Alterio), begins to stalk his former lover, Angela (Chaplin) as he suspects her of political involvement in an anti-government group. Surrealist elements become apparent as the Colonel fuses his memories of Angela with his suspicions to create fantasy scenarios of capturing the elusive actress.

Gentille Alouette

1990

Gentille Alouette poster
8.5

Gentille Alouette is a 1990 French-Chilean film written and directed by Sergio Castillo. Geraldine Chaplin stars as an actress in Paris that is stalked by a Latin American colonel played by Hector Alterio. The colonel (Alterio), begins to stalk his former lover, Angela (Chaplin) as he suspects her of political involvement in an anti-government group. Surrealist elements become apparent as the Colonel fuses his memories of Angela with his suspicions to create fantasy scenarios of capturing the elusive actress.

Gentille Alouette

1990

Take The Bridge poster
6.1

Four young adults who try to commit suicide on the same day become friends.

Take The Bridge

2008

Take The Bridge poster
6.1

Four young adults who try to commit suicide on the same day become friends.

Take The Bridge

2008

Take The Bridge poster
6.1

Four young adults who try to commit suicide on the same day become friends.

Take The Bridge

2008

Missing Prisoners poster
10.0

The action takes place in the course of three days. It is the story of people who survived in the “torture house” of chilean dictatorship. the leading actor nelson villagra received the prize for the best actor at the san sebastian iff.

Missing Prisoners

1979

Mijita poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mijita

1970

Te amo (made in Chile) poster
4.7

Sam returns to Chile from the USA after his parents divorce. Left with a sexually-abusive nanny, he makes friends with some other neglected kids: Isabel, whose mother suffers from depression after the disappearance of her father and brother, and Daniela whose mother is dead and whose father is an alcoholic. The teenagers get together to make a slasher film dealing with family issues, and finally confront their demons.

Te amo (made in Chile)

2001

Te amo (made in Chile) poster
4.7

Sam returns to Chile from the USA after his parents divorce. Left with a sexually-abusive nanny, he makes friends with some other neglected kids: Isabel, whose mother suffers from depression after the disappearance of her father and brother, and Daniela whose mother is dead and whose father is an alcoholic. The teenagers get together to make a slasher film dealing with family issues, and finally confront their demons.

Te amo (made in Chile)

2001

No artwork available
NR

About the coup in Chile. Animation of children's drawings with the music of Violeta Parra.

I Wish, I Wish I Had a Child

1974

Perla poster
NR

A female mutt called "Perla" (Pearl) is abandoned by her owner on the top of the San Cristobal hill, in the capital city of Santiago, Chile. Without knowing what to do, soon Perla is part of the huge amount of street city dogs. Until the day she meets Samuel, a troubled man, and they both start the way of mutual recovery.

Perla

2015

No artwork available
NR

Politically animated short film in response to Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973.

Pinochet

1973