Alicia Scherson

Directing

Alicia Scherson

Born 1974-11-30 · Santiago, Chile

Acting credits

Phantom Project poster
4.0

Waiting for his big dream (a film role) to come true, Pablo works as a training actor in a patient-care programme at a medical faculty and a paid participant in group therapy sessions. To make ends meet, he sublets a room in his apartment in a suburb of Santiago de Chile. However, he seems to have lost control when his housemate departs, leaving him with rent arrears, a collection of plants, a dog, a woolly jumper, and... a house ghost. Pablo is 30, and when it comes to romance he is also chasing apparitions. He is secretly still in love with his ex-boyfriend, a popular YouTuber.

Phantom Project

2022

A Map for a Talk poster
1.9

An intimate play evolving around three main characters: an adult woman, her mother and her female lover. Two days in their lives occur in two opposing setting, everyday life in the demanding metropolis of Santiago and a sailboat trip cruising a beautiful bay. The three character remain trapped in a claustrophobic confrontation. The film dialogs with 'Knife in the water' from the side of women, an intense character drama with many involuntary humorous scenes. The eternal, never completed quest of seeing and recognizing the other as they are or, at least, as they want to be seen.

A Map for a Talk

2012

Verano poster
4.3

During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vacation hours in nature, sleeping in the sun, learning how to drive, cleaning the house, kissing for the first time, swimming at night or just walking and talking, while the day slowly unravels into small fragments of happiness and discovery.

Verano

2011

Como me da la gana II poster
7.8

Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film. These conversations are related to images in the director's personal archive, as if what is truly cinematographic was found among bits that were never made for the screen.

Como me da la gana II

2016

(Im)Patient poster
2.0

A doctor and expert in ethics, Sergio Graf has to fight the Chilean health system as a patient when he gets Guillain-Barré syndrome. It is a journey toward physical deterioration, a loss of safety, and returning to something that he has until now taken for granted: his family.

(Im)Patient

2022

Behind the camera

Tourists poster
6.0

Carla is abandoned by her husband while vacationing on a national park. There she finds herself stranded with a Norwegian backpacker and a former pop star.

Tourists

2009

Tourists poster
6.0

Carla is abandoned by her husband while vacationing on a national park. There she finds herself stranded with a Norwegian backpacker and a former pop star.

Tourists

2009

Summer War poster
NR

Chile, 1989: the Pinochet regime is on the decline and tabletop wargame champion Udo Berger is vacationing with his girlfriend at a coastal resort. When a friend suddenly vanishes, Udo invites a mysterious local to join him for a game in this effortlessly stylish adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s “The Third Reich.”

Summer War

2026

Summer War poster
NR

Chile, 1989: the Pinochet regime is on the decline and tabletop wargame champion Udo Berger is vacationing with his girlfriend at a coastal resort. When a friend suddenly vanishes, Udo invites a mysterious local to join him for a game in this effortlessly stylish adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s “The Third Reich.”

Summer War

2026

Play poster
5.7

A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.

Play

2005

Play poster
5.7

A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.

Play

2005

No artwork available
NR

The Cell Phone Girl, The Reading Man, The Depressed Pilot and The Silent Girl wander around, inside and above O'Hare International Airport, all trying to understand how it is possible to remain in the air when one is as heavy as a plane.

Crying Underwater

2002

No artwork available
NR

The Cell Phone Girl, The Reading Man, The Depressed Pilot and The Silent Girl wander around, inside and above O'Hare International Airport, all trying to understand how it is possible to remain in the air when one is as heavy as a plane.

Crying Underwater

2002

No artwork available
NR

The Cell Phone Girl, The Reading Man, The Depressed Pilot and The Silent Girl wander around, inside and above O'Hare International Airport, all trying to understand how it is possible to remain in the air when one is as heavy as a plane.

Crying Underwater

2002

The Future poster
5.2

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

The Future

2013

The Future poster
5.2

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

The Future

2013

Verano poster
4.3

During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vacation hours in nature, sleeping in the sun, learning how to drive, cleaning the house, kissing for the first time, swimming at night or just walking and talking, while the day slowly unravels into small fragments of happiness and discovery.

Verano

2011

Optical Illusions poster
5.6

A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged.

Optical Illusions

2010

Rara poster
5.5

Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is hardly any different than it is for other families. But not everyone sees it that way – Sara's father in particular has his doubts. As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, she feels rather overwhelmed: her first crush, a body in the midst of changes and to top it off, conflicts over loyalty with her parents.

Rara

2016

Karadima Forest poster
7.1

Based on true events, involving powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima, who committed crimes of child abuse and pedophile between 1980's-2000's. The struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.

Karadima Forest

2015

Family Life poster
4.4

While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

Family Life

2017

No artwork available
NR

A beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer.

Copia imperfecta: para Raúl Ruiz

2012

No artwork available
8.0

Three women get locked in the bathroom of an airport. This confinement becomes some sort of therapy that reveals the truth of each one of them.

Baño de mujeres

2005

No artwork available
8.0

Three women get locked in the bathroom of an airport. This confinement becomes some sort of therapy that reveals the truth of each one of them.

Baño de mujeres

2005