Movies: José Luis Torres Leiva

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

During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vac...

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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 December 2006 during the weeks that take place from the ex-dictator Pinochet’s funeral to Christmas Eve. Th...

A beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer....

Ten segments linked to a primary idea: an evocation of the early cinema images....

A stately home, built in 1922, is now a dilapidated stage where memories and history are present in the old home movies starring those that once inhabited it....

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

Collage based on the texts and lives of Diane Arbus, Jean Eustache, Robert Walser, Alejandra Pizarnik, Franz Kafka and Carmen Jung....

Jorge becomes obsessed when he discovers that he has the same name as a young man who died. Upon investigating, he discovers that they also share an obvious physical resemblance. To Josefina, the young man's mother, the encounter with this man awaken...

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

Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the most important works of his career and motivations....

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

The clouds over a couple give rise to a story about the small everyday gestures of a world that stops around the disturbing spaces of everyday life....

Marcelo Muñoz Salcedo, a 40-year-old man from Santiago, reveals the physical and nutritional routine to which he submits in order to stand out in bodybuilding. Behind prejudices and methodical training, his story entails a humble and courageous openn...

The title comes from Sergei Yesenin's last poem before comiting suicide. Using Virginia Woolf's last letters as a base, this film is meditation on the power of the word and its undertsanding and the the last moments before saying "goodbye"....

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 them to a lost or forgotten place of their childhood or because he faced them with a fear that they b...

Part of the project for the new feature film that José Luis Torres Leiva is currently preparing. The short film describes the creative process and the images that come to a writer as she reflects on the figure of lighthouses as insular guides and as ...

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Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms....