José Luis Torres Leiva Movies

More than sixty years after leaving high school, former classmates Alicia, Gema, Angelica, Ximena and Maria Teresa are still devoted to their regular...

Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume...

In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under...

After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.

Is set in the figure of a transhumant muleteer who once a year takes more than a thousand sheep up into the heart of the Andes Mountains. Accompanied...

Experimental film about form and sound, with music by Steven R. Smith.

Initially the film is part of the project "8,8" by Chilean artist Fernando Prats. Recorded for 8 days in the area most affected by the February 2010...

In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the...

Stark formal choices counterbalance profound emotions and vulnerability in this poignant lover’s goodbye.

Rosario is a wandering teenager who believes that her mother, does not really love her and she's apparently right. The young woman has found refuge...

No Place in Anywhere can deal with many issues. It is a personal journey through image and time. It is the portrait of the "La Matriz" neighborhood...

Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to...

A small tribute in memory of the filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.

During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa,...

An atmospheric portrait of four women who leave the factory where they work to go to the beach.

As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a young Chilean girl slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.

A film of people who daydream. A special dream that marked something in their lives, either because it was premonitory or prophetic, because it took...

Lucía is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile. The film occurs in...

Formal exercise on the use of the foreground and the configuration of the world through detail.