Amparo Noguera

The Woman in the Line (2025)

Andrea visits her incarcerated son for the first time. Initially eyed with suspicion by other women in line, she gradually gains their trust — and emerges as a powerful advocate for justice reform. ...

The Wave (2025)

A Chilean student becomes involved in a feminist movement at her university. Suddenly, she becomes a central figure in the movement. ...

The Practice (2024)

Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. ...

María Mar (2024)

María returns to her coastal hometown after learning of her mother's death. As she deals with pending tasks, the memory of her complicated and strained relationship with her mother haunts her. ...

History and Geography (2024)

Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decided to return to her hometown to stage a play about the conquest of Chile, which will allow her to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost but never had. ...

El Conde (2023)

After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite. ...

Blanquita (2023)

Blanca, an 18-year-old foster home resident, is the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. Yet, the more questions are asked, the less clear it becomes what Blanca's role in the scandal exactly is. ...

(Im)Patient (2022)

A doctor and expert in ethics, Sergio Graf has to fight the Chilean health system as a patient when he gets Guillain-Barré syndrome. It is a journey toward physical deterioration, a loss of safety, and returning to something that he has until now taken f ...

Alicia Dreams of a Lighthouse (2021)

Part of the project for the new feature film that José Luis Torres Leiva is currently preparing. The short film describes the creative process and the images that come to a writer as she reflects on the figure of lighthouses as insular guides and as a sou ...

My Tender Matador (2020)

Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship. ...

Pacto de Fuga (2020)

During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig. ...

Ema (2019)

Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she'll need t ...

Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes (2019)

Two women who have spent their whole lives together must deal with the illness affecting one of them. The sick woman decides not to have treatment and they move into a cabin in the woods to wait for the day that death will come into their lives. The situat ...

The Man of the Future (2019)

Michelsen, an older trucker who is lonely and sick, while traveling through Patagonia meets someone on the highway who reminds him of his daughter, whom he has not seen in years. ...

The Invented Biography (2018)

This film follows Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a great part of his biography. The director searches for him in places where his stories and novels occur, meeting with real and imaginary characters, in a t ...

¿Cómo andamos por casa? (2018)

The Ahumada family wants to be happy at all costs and do not mind sacrificing others along the way. But happiness, is not always where you seek it. ...

El Taller (2018)

In the midst of a convulsed country, a group of people attend a poetry workshop that can last only one night,taught by the renowned academic David Sanhueza. ...

Oblivion Verses (2018)

When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns. ...

Ana's Dream (2017)

Stark formal choices counterbalance profound emotions and vulnerability in this poignant lover's goodbye. ...

Silencio (2017)

Ana, wants her brother Andres to forgive her father, after years of distance. She must deal over and over again with all the situations that affect her dysfunctional family, while in silence, her own children coexist with abortion, drugs and indifference. ...

A Fantastic Woman (2017)

Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy. ...

Neruda (2016)

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 ...

Adios amigo mío, sin gestos, sin palabras (2015)

The title comes from Sergei Yesenin's last poem before comiting suicide. Using Virginia Woolf's last letters as a base, this film is meditation on the power of the word and its undertsanding and the the last moments before saying "goodbye". ...

Natural Disasters (2014)

Raquel is a teacher who resists the idea of retiring. One day she has to teach a class at her old school, only to find out she has been replaced with someone much younger. She insists still on teaching, and gets the support of her former students who will ...

Aurora (2014)

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

Dog Flesh (2013)

Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past. ...

No (2012)

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 the 'No ...

Verano (2011)

During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vacation ...

Post Mortem (2010)

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. ...

Secrets (2008)

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current cou ...

Tony Manero (2008)

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

Life Kills Me (2007)

Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. ...

Radio Corazón (2007)

Radio Corazón recreates Chile's most successful radio show of all time. Composed of 3 fun, sexy and romantic short films based on true stories as told by the show's listeners to "Rumpy", an unparalleled radio host. ...

Casa de remolienda (2007)

Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married. ...

Our Father (2006)

Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies. ...

El último sacramento (2004)

Four stories, four women; four women struggle for the liberation of their souls. ...

Days in the Country (2004)

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality. ...

Los ojos abiertos (2004)

No Place in Anywhere (2003)

No Place in Anywhere can deal with many issues. It is a personal journey through image and time. It is the portrait of the "La Matriz" neighborhood in Valparaíso. It is the encounter between reality and fiction. It is the constant search to find a truth w ...

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (2002)

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a ...

Three Saturday Nights (2002)

The seductive quality of the night of a saturday where both the rich and the poor experience the drunken urgency of the party and the clock. ...

Un ladrón y su mujer (2001)

A thief asks his wife to visit him in prison, she goes without imagining that he is planning his escape. ...

Mi último hombre (1996)

A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist. ...

Archipiélago (1992)

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

País de octubre (1990)

A surreal Chilean road movie in which two wanderers come across an assortment of oddballs. ...

Angels (1990)

A group of college students gradually disappear, with no explanation. ...

Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal (1988)

A cyclist decides to go for everything and win the 'Tour of Chile' Race, so he can finance the medical treatment for his ill mother with the prize. However, he must soon recognize that the sporting event is corrupted by commercial and marketing interests, ...

Las bicicletas (2005)

Nicolás is furious. Once again they broke into his house and took his bicycle. Outside, in the streets, the city is half destroyed by an earthquake. There is a curfew and Pinochet is asked if he is going to declare a state of catastrophe. Nicolás accompa ...

Machuca (2004)

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 all ...