Melisa Miranda

Still Stares

Miguel is a renowned taxidermist and an expert hunter. He is always visited by clients seeking to naturalize pets and exotic animals. Through his work, Miguel will make us reflect on how we relate to other species.

The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine

After 40 years working in the mine at Tierra del Fuego, Toto doesn’t qualify for the social security that would allow him to retire. So his son Jorge attempts to build a gold harvesting machine to bring them a better future.

Pampas marcianas

The inhabitants of Maria Elena, the driest place on Earth, were chosen to be the first to colonize Mars. The people are torn between the decision to leave their roots, the heat, the economic debacle and the new promise of progress, this time on another planet. The pampinos prepare to leave their past behind and embark on a space voyage, the last exodus from the saltpeter pampas.

Pampas marcianas

The inhabitants of Maria Elena, the driest place on Earth, were chosen to be the first to colonize Mars. The people are torn between the decision to leave their roots, the heat, the economic debacle and the new promise of progress, this time on another planet. The pampinos prepare to leave their past behind and embark on a space voyage, the last exodus from the saltpeter pampas.

Ramona

Preparing for a role, an actress holds conversations with pregnant young girls. Throughout the process, the girls lay out the stories of their own lives on camera, changing the course of the production of the film.

So Filthy and So Happy

Hija de Perra was a transvestite artist who would become an icon of dissidence and a benchmark for Latin American underground, after she died in 2014. Multiple intimate and unpublished audiovisual footage, captured by her filmmaker best friend, reveal how this character came about. She experimented in music and film, wrote texts for the academy, and turned his cross-dressing into a political action, questioning gender and sexual identity.

The Captives

Dimas and Isabel lived in Arica when new border limits were imposed between Peru and Chile, dividing their descendants. Their great-granddaughter searches for her identity, crossing the limits of her memory, family chronicles and official discourses that shape the history of both countries.

The Captives

Dimas and Isabel lived in Arica when new border limits were imposed between Peru and Chile, dividing their descendants. Their great-granddaughter searches for her identity, crossing the limits of her memory, family chronicles and official discourses that shape the history of both countries.

It Runs in the Family

A revelation about Oscar Torres, her unknown and once world-famous queer filmmaker cousin, sends Victoria down a path of self-discovery through reconstructions of his intimate memories living in the 1950's authoritarian Caribbean, as Victoria leads re-enactments of his unproduced screenplays with the family who erased him.

The Journey of Monalisa

After 17 years working as a street prostitute in New York City, undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa reunites with former college classmate Nicole, the director of this film. Through their creative bond, Monalisa re-flourishes as a transgender performer and writer, in the search for identity and legalization.

Adriana's Pact

Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for dictator Pinochet's notorious secret police, the DINA, and of having participated in the commission of state crimes. When Adriana denies these accusations, Lissette begins to investigate her story in order to film a documentary about her.

Andean Sheperdess

A journey through time, memory and experience of Aymara women of the Chilean Plateau, 4200 meters above sea level. Through their voices we'll present their points of view on Gabriela Blas, a local pastor imprisoned for the lost of her three years old son, while looking after her Llama herd. Days go by as we listen to their reflections on motherhood, life and death, in this abandoned land, were grazing Llamas and Alpacas is the sole breadwinner in a world in retreat, abandoned on the Andes mountains.

In the Grayscale

Bruno is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in Santiago city. Motivated by this professional challenge, Bruno feels he can find a twist in his life by a vocational route. He start working with a young history teacher named Fer who is agile, energetic, captivating and gay. Starts between them an unexpected and intense romance. At this point he must decide his path. The biggest learning: simplicity is the best way to get up again.

The Waltz of the Useless

The narration of two parallel stories tells the history of the student movement in Chile. A teenager immersed in the political climate of his school and a former prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship will find in the social mobilization the meaning of their own story.

Médula

Three years ago my mother suffered a serious cerebral stroke. In two hours herself vanished in front of me facing me suddenly with a body in which she was not anymore. Médula is the journey in which I try to recover the lost image of a woman that I was never able to understand nor get to know and who, today, feels more undecipherable than ever.