Ernesto Meléndez
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
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No nos quieren ver
Character: Pantera
After the death of a teenager in a children's shelter house, a lawyer discovers endless irregularities, errors and horrors within the institution that will shake political power....
Zamudio
Character: Jano Core
Based on a true story. The life and death of Daniel Zamudio, a young man who was brutally beaten in Parque San Borja of Santiago as part of a direct homophobic assault....
La cacería: Las niñas de Alto Hospicio
Character: Cabo Pérez
The disappearance of dozens of teenage girls shakes Alto Hospicio community in northern Chile. The official version speaks of runaways from broken homes and an underworld of traffic, but the case hides a horror perhaps even worse: A murderer that remains unpunished unable to stop his impulses....
Helga y Flora
Character: Ezequiel Ligman
Helga Gunkel and Flora Gutiérrez, the first women of the Chilean police, are on the trail of a criminal who has returned for revenge on Kerren, a small southern town....
Vidas en riesgo
Character: Iván
Dr. Ayala and Dr. Martínez attend different medical emergencies and do their best to save their patient’s lives, who usually arrive in life-threatening conditions....
12 días que estremecieron Chile
Character: Ariel
Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people....
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Canasto de cangrejos
Character: Alfonso
Pascal has a dream of turning an abandoned house into a cultural center. Secretly, Manuel, his boyfriend, begins to use the house for other purposes. Tomás, a traveler who falls in love with Pascal, tells him about Manuel's manipulation, so they plan to leave together. Thomas unexpectedly disappears, causing Pascal to go into deep paranoia and blame everyone who lives in the house. In the end, Pascal manages to get out of the house that is about to collapse....
Phantom Project
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Waiting for his big dream (a film role) to come true, Pablo works as a training actor in a patient-care programme at a medical faculty and a paid participant in group therapy sessions. To make ends meet, he sublets a room in his apartment in a suburb of Santiago de Chile. However, he seems to have lost control when his housemate departs, leaving him with rent arrears, a collection of plants, a dog, a woolly jumper, and... a house ghost. Pablo is 30, and when it comes to romance he is also chasin...
Chile '76
Character: Maestro Joven
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to....
Plants
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For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon....
Little White Lie
Character: Vladimir
A small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for....
Raptor
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Ariel gets involved in a teenager's civil arrest, who is accused of stealing a phone. A mob surrounds the young man and some curse and beat him, some defend him. The police isn't showing up. Ariel has to decide what side he is on....
Running Against the Wind
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A young couple living with their little daughter are shaken to the core when a childhood friend is released from prison and wants the money he won from an old debt....
Agua del este
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Pablo, after five years of the death of his wife, returns to the hotel of his family in Puelo with the objective to close that painful wound. During this trip, he reconnects with people from his childhood and also meets Ana, the new hotel manager, who becomes his spiritual guide to reconcile Pablo with nature, which was the cause of his wife’s passing....
Diablada
Character: Officer Soto
A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment....
Cuarto de Hora
Character: Paramédico
Alex (25), is a young Haitian man living in Chile who is undocumented and does not speak Spanish. After a car accident he is helped and translated by Daniela (50), a passerby with whom he is going to live what could be his last 15 minutes of life....