Chilean documentary as much as the Berlinale

With a delegation of filmmakers, filmmakers, manufacturers and manufacturers, known and rising, Chile will probably be offered within the seventy fifth model of Berlinale and its Eu Movie Marketplace EFM marketplace, from February 13 to 19.

The delegation of the documentary sector will probably be made up of Daniel Díaz Oyarzún by means of Pikun Movies; Gonzalo Argandoña Lazo and Diego Rojas de Cábala Movies; Fernando Fuentes by means of El Espino Movies; Claudia León de Faro Cine; María José Díaz de Galgo Storytelling; Tomás Gerlach to the bare eye; The Celeste Pink Administrators Mugica, Carolina Moscoso Briceño, director José Jiménez.

This contingent and its vary of tasks will succeed in one of the crucial biggest cinematographic occasions on the earth with the accompaniment of Chiledoc, and its director Paula Ossandón. On the similar time they’re a part of the audiovisual delegation of Chile, in command of Cinemachile, which for 16 years has promoted the abilities of Chilean cinema on this planet. Each sectoral manufacturers obtain the give a boost to from Prochile.

“Our narratives have develop into more and more fascinating and tasty to the trade and new audiences out of doors the rustic. EFM is a smart house to advertise manufacturing and in finding commercialization alternatives. Germany is the 3rd nation with which the Chilean documentary sector has essentially the most co -productions and we’re on the lookout for those alliances to accentuate. ”Ossandón stated.

Lorena Sepúlveda, Nationwide Director of Prochile, feedback that “Chile has had an enduring presence since a number of years within the Eu Movie Marketplace (EMF), which displays the public-private effort for the internationalization of the Chilean audiovisual sector. In 2024, the inventive industries of our nation accomplished a document of exports, attaining about US $ 98 million in 45 markets, together with necessary companions equivalent to Germany. This fulfillment reinforces our dedication to the internationalization of inventive industries, which now not best diversify our export basket, but additionally place Chile as an inventive, various and cutting edge nation within the international level. ”

Global premiere

The director Matías Rojas Valencia, in conjunction with the manufacturer Tomás Gerlach Mora, will probably be provide with the robust theme of migration in Berlinale, for the arena premiere of the fast movie Sundown in The usa.

This tale is a part of the Era 14+ segment and Françoise Nieto-Fong additionally participates in its manufacturing. The movie takes us to the Andean Altiplano, a spot that has develop into probably the most bad migratory routes in Latin The usa.

An adolescent recalls the evening he crossed the highlands and the sensation of being accompanied by means of a non secular presence that obscure because the wind.

Document Toolbox Programme

Manufacturer Daniel Díaz Oyarzún, by means of Pikun Movies, is a part of the authentic collection of the DOC Toolbox Program 2025, an example during which manufacturers be told new equipment to advertise and marketplace motion pictures. On this case, the Chilean documentary mission is Mapurbekistan.

On this regard, Daniel Díaz issues out that “all through this time I’ve participated in on-line workshops to control equipment and make the vital connections to be in individual in February within the EFM, and procure the most efficient advantage of this example. As well as, I’ve been ready to take personalised recommendation to broaden the mission folder and generate new methods for the way forward for the movie ”.

Underneath the course of Claudio Alvarado Lincopi, and the manufacturing of Daniel Díaz Oyarzún and Sofía del Pozo, Mapurbekistan offers with a Mapuche historian who travels in the course of the revel in of his other folks in Santiago, since its basis in 1541, to the defeat of the proposal of Nueva Plurinational Charter led by means of Elisa Loncon. Underneath the determine of the Pewma (“Dream”), we go back and forth thru pictures, artwork and performances to consider the way forward for a champuria (“mestizo” town).

Berlinale Skills

Chilean administrators Carolina Moscoso Briceño and Celeste Rojas Mugica have been decided on in Berlinale Skills, skill construction program, which provides laboratories for tasks, workshops, public panels and a lot more.

Carolina Moscoso Briceño has labored as director and montage in quite a lot of video clip, animation, visible and theater tasks. Night time imaginative and prescient is his first function movie and used to be launched in Chile, on the Valdivia Pageant (FICV) in 2019, the place he received the Particular Jury Prize. The world premiere used to be in FidMersrseille 2020, the place he received the FidMersrseille 2020 Global Festival Grand Prize.

He additionally received the awards; Perfect Movie Outros Olhares – Solhar de Cinema 2020, Perfect Cinema Tropical Awards 2021, Silver Puma for Perfect Directorate Ficunam 2021, Excellence Award on the Yamagata Global Documentary Movie Pageant 2021, amongst others.

He’s recently running on his 2d function movie “I can by no means be a policeman”, a movie essay that begins from the selfmade archive of the director, who “recorded for 35 years essentially the most gorgeous pictures of the day by day lifetime of our circle of relatives of police within the police within the 90’s. One Christmas my uncle filmed me with my first digicam. The film dialogues between our pictures, I imitate it when doing them. I’m wondering in regards to the inheritance and the rationale to document, the whole thing issues to the longer term. I do not need to be a policeman when driving the photographs, ”says Carolina Moscoso.

The Chilean filmmaker Argentina Celeste Rojas Mugica, used to be additionally decided on to take part within the actions of the Berlinale skill program, additionally sporting her exterior mission, which accomplished a ramification throughout the Document Station program, the place she is going to obtain recommendation and, in the end, will probably be publicly offered publicly Prior to a gaggle of key visitors.

Celeste develops this mission with José Jiménez, and is produced by means of the Espino Movies. In it, a gaggle of archaeologists excavate the patio of the home of Ingrid Olderock, essentially the most robust lady within the Pinochet secret police. The non-public archive of the torturer emerges and lines now not best its historical past, but additionally that of the areas that hosted and transmitted horror. A movie product of paperwork of the actual and staging.

Celeste Rojas Mugica is a visible artist, photographer and filmmaker. Examine in regards to the notions and relationships of reminiscence, violence and creativeness. His first function movie, an oscillating shadow, premiered in Fidmarteille 2024, receiving the particular point out of the jury. The movie has additionally been known with the Ziff Prize for the most efficient movie of the First Movie Festival in Zinebi in Spain, whilst in Chile, he won the award for Perfect Chilean Movie in Ficvaldivia and Fidocs and the Docma Award for Perfect Global Movie in L’Alternativa in Spain, amongst others.

Chilean tasks

Clinical and innovation problems can also be provide throughout the portfolio of the Chilean delegation in EFM. The Cabala Movies generating space, with an extended paintings trajectory with those subject matters, arrives on the Eu marketplace with the mission revealing the Cosmos, the Rubin Observatory, led by means of Gonzalo Argandoña Lazo and produced by means of Diego Rojas.

On this function movie we will be able to see that the Vera Observatory C. Rubin Cartographia will, from the autumn of 2025, the entire evening sky at an unheard of velocity, taking pictures the adjustments virtually in actual time. Researchers from in all places the arena be expecting modern discoveries over supernovae, darkish topic and darkish power. Will this new telescope supply observations that problem and even grow to be our working out of the cosmos?

Faro Cine

The mission I’ve to die making a song, directed by means of Sebastián washed, Eduardo washed and produced by means of Sebastián Lavados and Claudia León, of the Faro Cine manufacturer, is a portrait of the allegorical universe of 2 outdated poets of the Chilean box. Lives that revolve round paintings in nature and in style religiosity; divine making a song vigils and dances processions that appear to sublimize the thrill and sorrows of a the town on how you can oblivion. An outdated shepherd and an outdated employee, each were born singers and need to die making a song.

Galgo Storytelling

And with a digital truth mission, manufacturer María José Diaz, by means of Galgo Storytelling. That is ancestral VR secret, led by means of Francisca Silva, María José Díaz and produced by means of Francisca Silva, María José Díaz, Gayatri Parameswaran and Felix Gaedtke.

There’s an historic prophecy that claims that within the tough instances of the planet, unity will go back when the condor and the eagle fly in combination once more. The condor represents indigenous peoples, and the eagle represents the globalized international. This can be a commute to the techniques of existence and the worldview of the Q’ero group of Peru. A commute that redefines the connection between humanity and mom earth, in an immersive revel in that breaks the bodily limits of truth.

Chiledoc promotes the abilities of the Chilean documentary and his motion pictures and collection international. Our dedication lies in selling the growth of the field thru strategic promotion, the advent and strengthening of networks and the promotion of associative practices. We’re a collective drive.

Chiledoc is a public-private group supported by means of Prochile, belonging to the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, and the Chilean Documentary Company (CCDOC).