Jaime Vadell

Esperando a Godoy (2025)

A group of left-wing intellectuals take over a building with the purpose of forming a Ministry of Culture, however, the workers oppose the takeover. Intellectuals and workers establish a coexistence pact while waiting for Godoy, a union boss. After conflic ...

The Hyperboreans (2024)

Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and f ...

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. ...

Socialist Realism (2023)

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths. ...

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. ...

Desconectados (2022)

Victoria, a mother addicted to the internet and work, is completely disconnected from her two teenage children, Clara and Julián. Just when he is about to receive that long-awaited promotion, a solar storm leaves the entire world without internet, indefin ...

Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena (2021)

A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony. ...

Spider (2019)

Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever. ...

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 ...

The Club (2015)

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities th ...

The Plain Of Patience (2015)

Two old friends meet after 40 years to unearth a treasure they had buried in the desert. ...

Santiago Violenta (2014)

Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into ob ...

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. ...

The Devil's Liquor (2012)

Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory ...

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 ...

¿Qué será de Soto? (2010)

Two friends reunite after many years, after they catch up with each other's personal lives, one question raises in the conversation "What happened to Soto? ...

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. ...

Kill Them All (2007)

A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers. ...

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. ...

For Rent (2005)

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 passed f ...

El Roto: Perjudícame cariño (2005)

Tendida mirando las estrellas (2004)

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in ...

El huésped (2003)

Five medicine interns in an old public hospital must face all their fears when they start to being stalked by a strange being. ...

Fragmentos urbanos (2002)

Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts. ...

Coronation (2000)

The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from ...

Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde (1999)

In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments... ...

Bienvenida Casandra (1996)

Cassandra is a teenager who is seeking God so she enters in the youth group of the Parish. There she meets Father Agustin , who unleashes her in confusion, on the border between carnal love and a fatherly relationship. ...

Amelia Lópes O'Neill (1992)

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister. ...

¡Viva el novio! (1990)

After a hectic love life,Pelao Infante has decided to settle down, marrying his girlfriend.But everything collapses when suddenly his ex appear claiming she's expecting a son from him. ...

The Chinese Shoe (1979)

A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. ...

Julio Begins in July (1979)

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society. ...

The Expropriation (1974)

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, a ...

The Witnesses (1971)

This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obta ...

Nobody Said Anything (1971)

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them. ...

Bloody Nitrate (1969)

Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate dep ...

Three Sad Tigers (1968)

A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago's semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society. ...