Esteban M. Soto

Directing

Esteban M. Soto

Born 2003-11-11 · Concepción City, Concepción, Biobío, Chile

Film and Television student at the University of Chile, with an unhealthy obsession for documentary filmmaking. Writing a manifesto against fictions.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Protest poster
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Mobilization of students of the University of Chile against the increase of fees, from "Casa Central" to "Torre 15".

Protest

2022

11 + 7 poster
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Through the juxtaposition of images, the documentary proposes to show the juxtaposition present in Chilean society and how it is capable of lamenting the coup d'état and a week later celebrating the Glories of the Army and the “18th”.

11 + 7

2023

11 + 7 poster
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Through the juxtaposition of images, the documentary proposes to show the juxtaposition present in Chilean society and how it is capable of lamenting the coup d'état and a week later celebrating the Glories of the Army and the “18th”.

11 + 7

2023

Freedom poster
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Short monologue in which the director reflects on what it means to him to be free.

Freedom

2022

Peleco Port poster
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Documentary short film in which the director returns to the Peleco port after 10 years, remembering and imagining what happened at the lake.

Peleco Port

2023

Rosita poster
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In a little more than 2 minutes we see how an old woman goes from being present to being lost inside herself, due to her senile dementia.

Rosita

2024

Selfportrait poster
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Returning to the ruins of the hospital where he came into the world, the director tries to remember what his birth was like, in search of a self-image that he lacks.

Selfportrait

2024

Selfportrait poster
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Returning to the ruins of the hospital where he came into the world, the director tries to remember what his birth was like, in search of a self-image that he lacks.

Selfportrait

2024

On my way to the cinema I recognised the remains of what once was poster
10.0

In Cañete there was a large movie theater in the center of town until the 1980s. At that time many things still worked. From a child's point of view, the short film transports us to an ordinary afternoon in Cañete, when people still happily went to the movies despite how difficult life was.

On my way to the cinema I recognised the remains of what once was

2024

On my way to the cinema I recognised the remains of what once was poster
10.0

In Cañete there was a large movie theater in the center of town until the 1980s. At that time many things still worked. From a child's point of view, the short film transports us to an ordinary afternoon in Cañete, when people still happily went to the movies despite how difficult life was.

On my way to the cinema I recognised the remains of what once was

2024

5 minutes of nothing poster
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It's just 5 minutes of nothing

5 minutes of nothing

2024

5 minutes of nothing poster
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It's just 5 minutes of nothing

5 minutes of nothing

2024

Today is a day poster
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Compilation of images of the small everyday things that inhabit the city, those situations that are constantly lost sight of if you don't pay attention.

Today is a day

2024

Today is a day poster
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Compilation of images of the small everyday things that inhabit the city, those situations that are constantly lost sight of if you don't pay attention.

Today is a day

2024

Images from a mother poster
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Through interviews, different mothers are asked to recall a precious moment with their children that has not been recorded, and then draw that moment and use it to fill the gap in a photo album.

Images from a mother

2024

Images from a mother poster
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Through interviews, different mothers are asked to recall a precious moment with their children that has not been recorded, and then draw that moment and use it to fill the gap in a photo album.

Images from a mother

2024

Timeless land poster
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Exposed, hungry and tired, but always smiling. The documentary explores what a day of up to 11 hours in retail sales is like, where the worker is stripped of something as simple as time - while selling watches.

Timeless land

2023

Timeless land poster
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Exposed, hungry and tired, but always smiling. The documentary explores what a day of up to 11 hours in retail sales is like, where the worker is stripped of something as simple as time - while selling watches.

Timeless land

2023

Places of infancy poster
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Esteban (18), a shy film student, returns for a few days to his hometown of Cañete. There he will try to film the places that marked his childhood, only to discover that most of them are falling apart, just like his memories.

Places of infancy

2022

Places of infancy poster
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Esteban (18), a shy film student, returns for a few days to his hometown of Cañete. There he will try to film the places that marked his childhood, only to discover that most of them are falling apart, just like his memories.

Places of infancy

2022

Once upon a time we were children poster
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A journey through the ruins of childhoods that passed too quickly.

Once upon a time we were children

2026

I'm modern, I take the subway poster
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“I'm modern, I take the subway” is a visual story illustrating how the Santiago subway is, par excellence, a symbol of modernity in the city. In it you can see contemporary art, mass and consumer society, multinational companies, the acceleration of life, etc., so the subway has become an overdose of modernity, with all the contradictions that this brings.

I'm modern, I take the subway

2023

Situations at Plaza de Armas poster
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Who are you? Where do you come from? What are your concerns?

Situations at Plaza de Armas

2022

Situations at Plaza de Armas poster
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Who are you? Where do you come from? What are your concerns?

Situations at Plaza de Armas

2022