Bruno Bettati

The Delinquents

Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.

The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.

Songs of Repression

At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera. However, the beauty of the place – formerly known as Colonia Dignidad – hides a grim past. Systematic child-abuse, medical experiments, torture chambers and mass graves are part of its history. Today, 120 inhabitants still live their lives in the colony which has since changed its name to Villa Baviera and where a disturbing blend of religious fanaticism and extreme conservatism still holds sway.

First Light

Marco, a cynical and ambitious young lawyer, lives in Bari with his partner Martina and their eight-year-old son Mateo. Martina had left Chile and moved to Italy when she met Marco. Their relationship has run its course, however, and Martina longs to go back to her country with Mateo, but Marco, the loving father left out of the equation, is adamantly against the idea. The couple clash for weeks on end, until Martina abruptly leaves the country with their son, goes back to Chile and virtually vanishes. With no news of Mateo, time seems to stand still for Marco. Anguished and unable to cope, he finally rallies and sets off in search of his son.

Voice Over

A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.

Two Shots Fired

Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a woman to join his medieval wind ensemble.

The Future

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

The Future

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

Bonsai

A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.

Old Cats

Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has.

Old Cats

Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has.

Optical Illusions

A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged.

Optical Illusions

A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged.

Huacho

A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.

Manuel de Ribera

In front of a lost fishing cove in the south of Chile, there is an uninhabited island. One afternoon, a precarious boat approaches its shores with a man: it is Manuel Ribera, who comes to occupy the land he has just inherited. With no job, no family and no money, he has come with the conviction that he will finally be able to build something for which he will finally feel like an owner.

The Sky, the Earth and the Rain

Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not only of getting away of the loneliness that constitutes their innermost core, but also of finding themselves, they reach for each other to get brotherly and sexual love, affection, and a space and time of their own.

Pasta

A man and a woman eat pasta. Through food, they express their love and their heartbreak. They approach, they distance themselves and they play, while a waiter brings them more pasta.

El brindis

In Chile, Mexican photographer Emilia falls in love with a rabbi and gets the news that her father is terminally ill.

XX

A man near his 30s and without a partner is thinking about fatherhood.