Fernando Valenzuela

Swimmer (2018)

A lonesome public pool employee with a monotonous life falls in love with a girl who frequently comes to swim there, he starts to project in his mind an illusory relationship with her and the hope she can change his dark life. ...

Bombal (2012)

María Luisa Bombal is an underground writer in the early twenties trying to reconcile her passionate and very sexual lifestyle with her life as a socialite among Santiago's very conservative elite. ...

Teresa (2009)

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 from her ...

Fuga (2006)

Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental ho ...

Mine Field (2000)

Dreams of Ice (1994)

In 1992 the Universal Exhibition in Seville was held in Spain. Chile participated in this exhibition by displaying in its pavilion an ice floe captured and brought especially by sea from Antarctica. In these true facts is based the fantasy narrated in Drea ...

Archipiélago (1992)

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

One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1990)

Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under t ...

Latent Image (1990)

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. ...

El Willy y la Myriam (1983)

This award-winning film presents a dramatic slice of the daily life of a young Chilean couple of popular origins, who, harassed by unemployment, lack of communication and poverty, struggle to give meaning to their lives, stay united as a family and get ahe ...