Pedro Chaskel Movies

This documentary shows the inhuman conditions on which the patients of Iquique's Psychiatric Hospital live.

Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.

Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the...

A Chilean-Cuban documentary film, by Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, in three parts: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (La...

Two guerrillas (Miguel Littin and Jorge Guerra) wander lost in the desert until one of them dies. A jeep appears in the distance to rescue the...

Sequences that illustrate moments in a woman's life, in parallel to the political events happening in South America during the 60's.

The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of...

Feature film that wraps, through Jorge Lillo's text, three short films by Helvio Soto

A family on the brink of bankruptcy decides to do dirty jobs undercover by the government to overcome their condition.

A female mutt called "Perla" (Pearl) is abandoned by her owner on the top of the San Cristobal hill, in the capital city of Santiago, Chile. Without...

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their...

Three stories rooted in violence, mental erosion and hopes that ran through Chile's soul.

A sound system plays Commander Ernesto Guevara's speech, delivered on October 20, 1962, during the Second Anniversary of the Young Communist League,...

A boy goes to his friend's funeral procession. When he realizes that his grave does not have flowers like the others, and that he does not have money...

A maid loses all her jobs because her son cries at night, and that bothers her bosses. The play portrays the wandering and desperation of the...

Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's...

Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the...

Between April and June 2006, nearly one million Chilean high school students captivated the nation as they organized in protest and temporarily...

Examines the mind and work of artist Juan Luis Martinez. Martinez's contemporaries expound upon his of reality and the political climate in Chile.