Patricio Contreras Movies

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels...

Ana and her two children live in the anonymity of the suburbs. She cares for the sick to make ends meet. But her youngest daughter requires much...

The film reconstructs the modest process of filming a Super 8 action short by three 12-year-old friends in Buenos Aires during the spring of 1973....

When a Coya miner confronts the foreman at a ranch in Jujuy, the owner's son tries to resolve the issues.

Gulubú, a fantasy world territory habited by the studious Cow, the Witch and other characters from María Elena Walsh's stories and...

The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of...

In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in...

Jotta, a young atheist and militant, is disarming the house of his dead mother after a long cancer. On the way to the fight against violence so that...

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected...

In June 1997, a team of Argentine and Cuban scientists, including forensic anthropologists and geophysicists, carried out a search in the lands of...

Rudy, son of victims of the dictatorship in Argentina, and Maru, daughter of the perpetrator, are inheritors of a tragic and bloody history that...

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these...

Story of a ordinary human being who, by chance, take possession of the money that was stolen from a bank, thinking that will solve all his problems.

Mario, a young, handsome surveyor, arrives in a small Patagonian town to prepare the overland transport of a passenger ship. The inhabitants eagerly...

A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose...

Alfredo, is the lover of Griselda, Antonio's wife. Then Alfredo, after a furtive encounter, asks Griselda if they should kill Antonio.

A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for.

In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.

Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town.

Lucia is a girl of about 30 years, vital, attractive and successful. Live intensely all day despite not having a very happy past. One morning, in the...