Movies: Elsa Poblete

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for t...

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 ...

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever"....

A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, ...

In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975....

Cristina and Susana have been best friends since high school. Now, both over 30 years old, they are still living like they did in their teenage years. Or maybe they never grew up....

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football....

María Cartagena is a seasonal worker in the fruit fields of an arid valley in northern Chile, to bring sustenance to her daughter and disabled husband. During the hard workday she overcomes abuse and mistreatment driven by a powerful motivation: savi...

After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial....

A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk....

Teresa Wilms Montt is a writer, a rebellious woman, tormented and beautiful. He marries at age 17 challenging family opposition. She falls in love with someone she should not and the family court condemns her to confinement in a convent. Separated fr...

Documentary that narrates the struggles of Chilean women's movements to obtain the political vote. The thread of this documentary video is determined by an interview with the lawyer Elena Caffarena, one of the most active fighters of the cause and a ...

An architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago....

A love story centered around the hectic days of Carlos Ibañez del Campo's dictatorship....

The journey of a retired music teacher who witnesses the detention of a former student by the security agencies of dictatorship. This strong experience leads him to give up on a dream trip to Europe and to begin an intense search for the student's re...

26-year-old Amalia sets out on a voyage with nine-year-old Cristóbal through the remote landscapes of southern Chile with the intention of finding the boy's father. The search will turn into a journey through each of their personal histories....