Movies: Pedro Chaskel

A documentary about the consequences of consuming alcohol and how it works as a weapon of the bourgeoisie to appease the thirst of the people....

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 remains and objects found, the testimony of the Chango indigenous people is revealed....

The documentary frames the reactions of Rapa Nui's people following the screening of -at that time- a presumed lost film involving their territory....

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

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A day in the life of an 'organillero' as he plays his music in the streets of a Chilean city....

A collage of images showing the two faces of a society. That of poverty and that of wealth. Throughout the documentary, this antagonism is shown: populations in unhealthy conditions, and on the other hand, large showcases with mannequins....

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 protagonist to get a job, which ends in her failed attempts due to the "Angelito"....

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

A sound system plays Commander Ernesto Guevara's speech, delivered on October 20, 1962, during the Second Anniversary of the Young Communist League, along with a series of archival images of the revolutionary leader visiting factories and meeting wit...

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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 abortion......

Latin American children, children of exiles and political prisoners, tell of their experiences of integration in Cuba, sharing their memories from exile and ideas on politics and education. Filmed in Havana in February 1979, the International Year of...

Documentary about the iconic portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara by Cuban photographer Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez (known as 'Korda')....

It portrays young people from different social and political classes, and collects their impressions of the context in which they live. The documentary offers a critical view of the youth of the Unidad Popular period, through an audiovisual essay....

A documentary about the activities carried out by the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees: We see presentation of writs of protection, reports, criminal actions, hunger strikes, pacific protests, public acts. The place where minors, the child...

Detailed record of the operative technique used by Professor Dr. Alfonso Asenjo to perform surgery on a patient with Parkinson's disease at the Hospital de Neurocirugía de Santiago....

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Record of the landscapes of the Antarctic continent and of the scientific activities carried out there in mission of the executive committee for the International Geophysical Year....

La Revuelta accounts for the tension experienced by those who, as of October 2019, came out to express their social discontent. The work has as its main stage, renamed by the people, as "Plaza de la Dignidad". It is a choral story, woven with the re...