Movies: Cristián Heyne

Racing against time, a Chilean dad and his friends embark on a mishap-filled adventure across the Andes to gain custody of a daughter he's never met....

It's Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to ...

Three theater students, influenced by a professor and French theorist Antonin Artaud's acting technique, begin to experiment with their own lives, searching for real emotions and situations to bring onto the stage. Their obsession with becoming bette...

The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of Santiago, as told from three perspectives....

A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest....

Paul Kazan can't sleep. He wanders through empty streets. Why is the city of Santiago empty. At night, Kazan is a DJ at the 'Insomnia' disco, one of the few places where there are people. Something is happening. Something weird. There are rumors. Ru...

Ariel Roth is a 30-something graphic designer. He feels close to his Mac, his apartment and riding his bike at night. Ariel doesn't want too much out of life. Is that too much too ask?...

The film deals with the unforeseen effects generated by a young writer's suicide....

A young married couple going through crisis travel to Spain in search of new opportunities. Their lives are shaken with the unexpected visit of a disturbing girl....

Gastón Fernández has arrived at 34 without too much to show or brag about. He has no money, job, girlfriend, friends or life plan. He's a composer that doesn't compose. The one-time "most likely to succeed" at Santiago's Musical Conservatory has pass...

The bachelor Alvaro meets his son Santiago at the airport. Santiago has two hours before his plane leaves for Germany, where he is going to study. Both are nervous and their conversation is awkward, because they haven't seen each other for five years...

In February, 2010, the renowned Chilean band Panico traveled through the desert of northern Chile to record an album in the Atacama desert. After two decades of punk and post-punk rock, these offspring of political exiles are themselves rocked by not...