Pedro Chaskel Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.

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...

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

Documentary that explores the "Archives of Horror" of the General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, discovered in Paraguay in 1992 and in the...

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

Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the practices to which they were subjected, the torture...

SOMOS + follows a political demonstration by women who rise up with a unified voice against Pinochet’s military regime.

Confused faces of children, women and men when asked about the meaning of “eviction”, “unemployment”, “begging”,...

A docudrama based on the family planning policies for the population with limited resources. A low-income lady resorts to clandestine ways to get an...

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

A poetic film that records the excavations carried out by Swiss ethnologist Jean Christian Spahni at the mouth of the Loa River. Through the bone...

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...

A documentary about the activities carried out by the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees: We see presentation of writs of protection,...