Directing
Juan Cáceres
Santiago, Chile
Juan Cáceres is a Chilean director, screenwriter and editor who studied at the University of Chile. His films explore urban peripheries through a cinema deeply rooted in place and community, where realism intersects with popular culture and improvisation becomes part of the creative process. His debut feature, Perro Bomba (2019), screened and received awards at more than 40 international film festivals. His second feature, Kaye, was developed at the Cinéfondation Residency of the Cannes Film Festival and received the Work in Progress Award at the Málaga Film Festival, further establishing a body of work committed to portraying the dignity, contradictions and vitality of lives rarely placed at the center of the screen.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRYeka’s childhood shatters when she loses her best friend. Determined to understand what really happened, she must face hard truths that will upend everything she thought she knew about her family—and the fragile world around her.
Kaye
2025
NRYeka’s childhood shatters when she loses her best friend. Determined to understand what really happened, she must face hard truths that will upend everything she thought she knew about her family—and the fragile world around her.
Kaye
2025
Junior is a young Haitian who lives in Chile. After a fight at his job, Junior is harassed by his boss. At home, Junior doubts about his masculinity.
La duda
2017
7.0Natali becomes an orphan in a foreign country, after her mother’s murder. She suffers from brittle bones disease, and so she has never experienced independence. Therefore, after the tragedy, her life seems to take a new direction with EDINSON - an old friend of her mother’s - who gained legal custody of her. But this world is not made for Nataly, nor for her dreams.
La muerte, su follaje
2020
7.0Natali becomes an orphan in a foreign country, after her mother’s murder. She suffers from brittle bones disease, and so she has never experienced independence. Therefore, after the tragedy, her life seems to take a new direction with EDINSON - an old friend of her mother’s - who gained legal custody of her. But this world is not made for Nataly, nor for her dreams.
La muerte, su follaje
2020
4.9A young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, will see his life balance shaken after a series of unexpected events that will fuel a deep racist reactions in his environment.
Perro bomba
2019
4.9A young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, will see his life balance shaken after a series of unexpected events that will fuel a deep racist reactions in his environment.
Perro bomba
2019