Movies: Ernesto Meléndez

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to....

Waiting for his big dream (a film role) to come true, Pablo works as a training actor in a patient-care programme at a medical faculty and a paid participant in group therapy sessions. To make ends meet, he sublets a room in his apartment in a suburb...

For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon....

A small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for....

A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and tot...

Ariel gets involved in a teenager's civil arrest, who is accused of stealing a phone. A mob surrounds the young man and some curse and beat him, some defend him. The police isn't showing up. Ariel has to decide what side he is on....

Pascal has a dream of turning an abandoned house into a cultural center. Secretly, Manuel, his boyfriend, begins to use the house for other purposes. Tomás, a traveler who falls in love with Pascal, tells him about Manuel's manipulation, so they plan...

A young couple living with their little daughter are shaken to the core when a childhood friend is released from prison and wants the money he won from an old debt....

Pablo, after five years of the death of his wife, returns to the hotel of his family in Puelo with the objective to close that painful wound. During this trip, he reconnects with people from his childhood and also meets Ana, the new hotel manager, wh...

Luna (35), a filmmaker, arrives to find her last belongings at Consuelo's (41), her ex-partner and visual artist, with whom she used to live and with whom she has just ended a six-year relationship. The encounter between the two inevitably leads them...