Daniel Candia

Desde tu sombra (2024)

Moise and Leyna, undocumented Haitian immigrants, work as seasonal laborers in the Limarí Valley and face life-threatening conditions due to poor labor practices. During a solar eclipse, an accident occurs that leads Moise to make a dark decision. ...

No Estoy en el Mar (2024)

Josefina, a young yoga instructor, joins the daily life of San Rosendo, a small town in the south of Chile that seems frozen in time, to ask about the fate of her father, Manuel, whom she never met. ...

Thanks for Coming (2023)

After the sudden death of his father and finding out he is going to lose the house where him and his family have vacationed at for over 25 years, Nancho and his family will seek for a way to sabotage the sale and will fight for the house that belongs to th ...

Diablada (2023)

A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total aba ...

Green Grass (2022)

Kondo, a 30-year old Japanese entrepreneur, wakes up in an unknown beach after a great earthquake. When trying to return to his earlier routine, he meets strange characters who will help him understand where he is. Meanwhile, his father, feeling the loneli ...

The Wealth of the World (2021)

Chile, 1814. During the independence war, a militia peasant wakes up deaf among the dead. As he wanders, he rescues a young hussar who has lost his sight in recent combat. Abandoned, they decide to return together to their homeland, avoiding irrational eve ...

Historia de un crack (2021)

Pulento (2021)

Daniel (50) lives in overwhelming and routine isolation due to the pain of bad decisions made in his life. He spends his day denying his sadness in the company of his dog "Pulento", whom he cares for, takes for walks, and feeds. To alleviate his loneliness ...

Fervor (2021)

Tomás, a gay teenager from a small beach town in Chile, lives daydreaming at the beat of pop-music. During a summer day he sees his crush again, Benjamín, and encouraged by his music he jumps forward to the adventure of burgeoning first love, facing his ...

Overnight (2020)

Ignacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously. ...

La última frontera (2019)

Santiago 1984. Carmen, former JJCC, after being tortured by the CNI, works as an undercover agent. Francisco, an agent obsessed with her, infiltrates her in an advertising production company, meets Gastón, creative director. He discovers that he is planni ...

Mi amigo Alexis (2019)

When a young soccer fan and his idol forge an unexpected friendship, the connection teaches them both lessons about life and their love of the game. ...

José Cristo (2018)

JC is a lazy young man called to fight for his country in the current war, to avoid recruitment, he creates a religious cult and incidentally, earning some money along the way. ...

Messi and Maud (2018)

Maud and Frank are on holiday in Chile. Their relationship is fragile and so is Maud. After many years of trying, it is now time to face the fact that they will never have children. However, Maud is in denial. After a huge fight with Frank she runs off and ...

Los perros (2017)

Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past. ...

Hombre (2017)

Something dwells in the deep. ...

Premonición (2017)

Javier comes to a town in search of work. There he meets a group of peasants led by Chivo, a stubborn man who distrusts him and does not allow him to work. Guided by strange dreams, Javier will fight against prejudice to win a place in the community. ...

El Camino De Los Perros (2017)

Jorge (17) travels from Chiloé to Santiago to look for his unknown father, however, upon arrival he finds a disconcerting surprise that will turn his trip around. ...

Little White Lie (2017)

A small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for. ...

Much Ado About Nothing (2016)

After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, the son o ...

The Oak's Shadow (2015)

Jorge, a biology teacher, lost his wife 5 years ago, and has not been able to overcome his grief. His children consider their grandfather Roberto as their main father figure. Everything changes when the latter is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and the ...

To Kill a Man (2014)

Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge's mee ...

By the Fire (2012)

Daniel and Alejandra, a working class couple in their late 30s, move to the countryside near the Andes Mountains to begin the next chapter of their life together. Alejandra is ill, and Daniel looks after her, his soul mate. He scratches out a living doing ...

Hidden in the Woods (2012)

The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse ...