Joaquín Echeverría

We Will Burn

During a never-ending heat wave, Tiare (28) discovers that the bar she frequents feeds on human blood.

You, the artist

A visual artist receives funding from the Chilean state to make a fiction film about the precariousness of work in the visual arts.

A Dark Light

Jorge becomes obsessed when he discovers that he has the same name as a young man who died. Upon investigating, he discovers that they also share an obvious physical resemblance. To Josefina, the young man's mother, the encounter with this man awakens a ghost she thought was asleep.

A Dark Light

Jorge becomes obsessed when he discovers that he has the same name as a young man who died. Upon investigating, he discovers that they also share an obvious physical resemblance. To Josefina, the young man's mother, the encounter with this man awakens a ghost she thought was asleep.

Las Veletas

Celina, a homeless and rootless woman, wanders around stealing objects, only to have something of her own that is still alien. Through the objects she steals, she establishes magical links with other characters, becoming involved in parallel stories from which she cannot escape.

The ram's nap

Lucía and Valeria take out three Tarot cards that reveal the first two dishes of a menu that takes them from Embún, Spain to Llanquihue, Chile; the towns of their grandmothers. Among improvised still lifes, maps and video calls, the friends try to discover the meaning of the third card through a ritual that connects both continents.

Los perros

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

Aliyá, yeridá

Aliyá in Hebrew means to ascend and immigrate to Israel; Yeridá, the opposite, to descend and emigrate. From family archives, the author explores his family's motivations for emigrating to Israel in the 1970s, as well as the disappointments that led to their return to Chile decades later.

Ivy

Adrián (12), the son of a Venezuelan domestic worker, goes on an outing with the children of his mother’s employers. They get lost in the forest. Back at home, Adrián feels ostracized from the rest. This feeling leads him through a dreamy and voyeuristic journey of belonging.

Austral Fever

Amanda (46), a complaisant and lonely woman, lives with her son Daniel (16) in the mountains of southern Chile. Octavio (16), a Daniel’s friend, is accidentally injured while hunting in the forest. Amanda takes over the healing sessions, developing an intimate bond with the teenager. They discover that the contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.

And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye

Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.