television series

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

A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.

Sofía (Marta Etura) es una joven española, nadadora profesional, que al morir su madre desarrolla una aguda crisis emocional. A esto se suma la llegada de una reveladora carta, devuelta al remitente, que su madre envió en vida a Chile. El contenido de la misiva despierta profundos interrogantes en Sofía, quien decide embarcarse en un aventurado viaje al sur del mundo. El destino: un desconocido y remoto pueblo llamado Desierto Sur.

Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficially symbolic and rhetorical, for others, it will be a strong and personal vision of several centuries of history.