Bruno returns to his country after years of absence. The cottage that he shared with his family in his childhood, is now for sale and all the family meet there to say good bye to the place. The visit to the magnetic tree, a local curiosity with stranges properties, will awake on him feelings and affections almost forgotten.

 

This is the story of two roads that almost meet. One summer day, Tristán looses his suitcase and his love. The day after, Cristina finds an adventure. Cristina and Tristán walk along a hot and polluted Santiago de Chile. He, trying to recover something he never had; she, as a silent witness of his fall. Play is an urban fable, a little pop song about a man who looks for and a woman who finds.

Alejandro and Aurora are two young people who, on Christmas night, visit the girl’s dead father’s house to pick up some belongings she wants to get back before the house is sold. Inside the house, they find a 15-year-old runaway girl who is alone and lost and who will be their mate during that long Christmas night in which they will speak about the problems they bear.

Julia Gudari investigates the kidnapping of someone who ends up being a Chilean chemist wanted as witness by the international justice. Everything indicates that the Uruguayan militaries protect Berríos. Julia is afraid her father, General Gudari, may be involved, but evidences are scarce. Under pressure and threats, Julia understands that if she wants to access the truth, she will have to review her past in order to heal her wounds and overcome her fears.

Hardy Vallejos makes his living selling all kinds of cheap objects during the yellow buses chaos in Santiago de Chile, 2005. As the government announces the intention to ban this activity in order to change the image of the city, Hardy and his colleagues create the biggest active Union in Santiago. More than two thousand workers will join to keep their positions in the new transportation system and will soon realize that the only way to be heard is incorporating modernity weapons to their skill:  wear a uniform, create a corporative image and learn how to sell their Union demands in an emotional and convincing way. A unique story of collective professional awareness and, at the same time, a portrait filled with humour of the Chilean city and its inhabitants.

October 5^th, 1974, Santa Fe street in Santiago de Chile’s suburbs, Carmen Castillo is wounded and his partner, Miguel Henríquez, head of the MIR is killed in action. Santa Fe Street is the journey this woman starts through her history, her country and the MIR’s. A painful but restoring search, pierced by the obsession of knowing whether the resistance acts of her MIR mates were worth doing and whether there was any sense at all in Miguel’s death.

After the 1973 coup d’état, several Chileans were exiled for political reasons. Some looked for shelter, settled down and formed their families in Rome, where his children grew as Italians. In 1989, as democracy returned, many families decided to return bringing their children with them. They had never been in Chile, had seen it only in pictures and knew about it through stories. In a blurring line between documentary and fiction film, The Echo of the Songs explores into the dreams and memories of those young people, into the exile and the return, the wandering in their lives and their visions of the current Chile.

Tupamaro and hostage of the military dictatorship in Uruguay for 13 years. Current Swedish citizen and internationally recognised doctor for his research work in Alzheimer. All these lives fit in the life of Dr. Henry Engler. The scientist of today undertakes a journey to the past and to the stunned world of the prisoner and his strategies to withstand the inhuman. 

On August 13^th 1999 the body of 13-year-old Carlos Patricio Fariña was found by the edge of a road under construction. Carlos was detained in 1973, during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. The day his corpse was found, his brother Iván promised to the press he would make Carlitos’ story known in Chile and abroad. This documentary film shows how a man undertakes a search to repair his own amnesia, get his family together and report a brutal and irrational act, like the murder of a 13-year-old boy.

This is an autobiographic story that begins on September 11^th, 1973 in Chile, when I was six years old. From that moment my life changed forever. I was exiled with my mother to the ex GDR. My father, journalist Augusto Carmona, MIR activist, stayed underground until 1977, when he was murdered. From these two facts, the documentary film rebuilds the story of those who stayed in Chile fighting to overthrow the dictatorship and those who were exiled and suffered the rootlessness.  It is a subjective outlook of history from a “family album”, my own story, that of my friends and our parents.