Francisca Imboden

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

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Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Secos is a short that makes this reality visible, through the dialog between anonymous fighters from the most heavily affected provinces, with renowned actors and actresses in the country. The objective is to activate the topic of water as a human right, to achieve in the future the recovery of this vital element as a common good for all communities and territories.

Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.

During 1648, a dreaded commissioner of the Holy Inquisition arrives at Santiago. Social, political and religious life is shaken when six respected and married women are accused of committing the sin of fornication.

Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.

When seven-year-old Carolina wades through her novel family’s frenzied reunion in hopes of gifting her new stepfather a birthday card, she learns that to the party's adults, she is little more than decoration.

Patricio and Erica, a couple in their fifties who dreamed of enjoying their life as a couple, face an unexpected problem: Natalia, their almost 32-year-old daughter, refuses to leave home and has no plans to become independent. Desperate, her parents resort to increasingly crazy ideas to throw her out of the house, from gifts with hints to advice from artificial intelligence. But what begins as a simple plan turns into a whirlwind of misunderstandings and family chaos. With a lot of humor and delirious situations, When are you leaving? shows us that, sometimes, the most difficult thing is not raising children... it is getting them to leave!

Catalina is an influencer that stopped believing in Santa Claus and decides to ruin her siblings Christmas.

A fifty year old man living an existential crisis, with family, friends and children, tries to escape from debts and stress.

The life story of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro who leaves his wife and children in Chile and flees to Paris in order to devote himself to poetry.