Alfredo Castro

A serial killer is obsessed with the John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever". (imdb)

A pianist goes insane after a series of bad things happen when he plays his music. (myself)

A highly entertaining film about the crossing of fragmented lives of four characters living in Santiago: a psychologist working with prostitutes, a penniless flirtatious male beautician whose goal is to buy a car, a talented clarinetist who dreams of joining the philharmonic and a sick woman unable to look after her baby. The Chilean capital itself becomes a character in this emotional portrait of Chilean society today.

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears. (imdb)

An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. (imdb)

An unsuspecting family man is sucked into the bizarre and byzantine web of the Sicilian underground in this wryly comic and ravishingly shot first solo feature from acclaimed Italian director and cinematographer Daniele Cipri. (tiff.net)

Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end.

A group of priests of various ages lives together with Mónica, a nun, in a house on the Chilean coast. When they are not praying and atoning for their sins, they train their greyhound for the next race. What on earth has brought them here, practically to the end of the world, where a stiff breeze constantly blows? When a new priest moves in, a man suddenly turns up at the door and starts making strong accusations about the newcomer... (berlinale.de)

After she reads in the newspaper that a newborn baby is found in a dumpster, a teacher feels that the baby deserves a burial. But because the baby has no legal identity, she goes to a judge. (imdb)

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party (imdb)

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. Soon he discovers that she steals in other bookstores as well, and is consumed with jealousy. He starts to live in a kind of loving delirium, on the border between fiction and reality, but the closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes. (imdb)

In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases. (imdb)

Follows the story of a woman in her forties who becomes friend with an ex colonel and riding instructor with a shady past. (imdb)

Set in Argentina during the mid-1970s, Benjamín Naishtat's hypnotic drama follows a successful lawyer whose picture-perfect life begins to unravel when a private detective comes to his seemingly quiet small town and starts asking questions (imdb)

A wedding photographer becomes overly intrigued by a young bride-to-be. (imdb)

A '70s-set homoerotic prison drama based on a low-circulated pulp novel, tracking the sexual, often-violent and eventually murderous experiences of 20-something narcissist Jaime. (imdb)

Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. (imdb)

Dog Flesh deals with a complex period in the life of Alejandro, a solitary, fragile, and unpredictable man who is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past. (imdb)

Alejandro and Ana take their family on vacation to a remote island in southern Chile. The tranquility of the trip is disturbed when Nicolás, the local that ferried them across the water, disappears leaving the family trapped. (imdb)

Fabiola, a 40 years old woman, travels to a little island to visit her mother. Her intuition tells her that nothing is like it seems and the secrets could be linked to an accident that, many years ago, changed her life

A substitute teacher gets involved when one of his students is threatened by a drug kingpin.

Augusto Pinochet never died, rather he is a vampire who after 250 years decides to die due to his complicated family situation and the dishonor of his figure. (Wikipedia)

A mixed-race Chilean, rides south on an expedition led by MacLenan, a former Boer War English captain and Bill, an American mercenary, to fence off land granted to Spanish landowner José Menéndez. (imdb)

Gripped by the blind faith of her father, Reverend Pearson, Leni accompanies him on his evangelical mission. A banal accident forces them to stop at El Gringo's garage. When the Reverend becomes obsessed with saving the soul of Tapioca, the mechanic's son, Leni realizes the time has come to take her fate into her own hands. (imdb)

Ricardo has taken his daughters to their home by a lake in southern Chile. While out sailing, they spot a sinking boat but he refuses to help the people because they look suspicious.

After receiving the diagnosis of an incurable brain tumor, Claudia decides to undertake her last trip to Switzerland. There she can decide how and when to end her life thanks to the help of an assisted suicide association.

Martín is a 13-year-old orphan shoeshine boy from La Paz, Bolivia, who has lived his entire life in the streets with the hope and desire to find his father. Driven by this desire and his imagination, Martin begins to suspect that one of his best clients is his father; Mr Novoa, a lonely tailor whose only emotional bond is his dog, Astor, a fine German shepherd whom he cares for like a son