Películas y documentales sobre pueblos originarios en Chile
Desde principios del siglo XX (La agonía de Arauco, 1917) la temática de los pueblos originarios se retrató en el cine. El tiempo fue implacable con esas primeras películas en blanco y negro, mudas de unos cuantos minutos, hoy desaparecidas en su mayoría. Hoy existen más documentales que películas de ficción que retratan la cultura, tradiciones y cosmovisión de los pueblos originarios en Chile, aquí algunas de ellas...
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- DirectorGabriela BusseniusStarsRosita ReynésGelda NelsonAlfredo TorricelliA father accidentally kills his son and then commits suicide. The wife (Isabel) begins a long journey of pain and forgetfulness towards the south of Chile, there she meets a mapuche child an the conflict of her culture. It is the first directed by a woman, silent film pioneer of Chilean cinematography.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziPablo PerelmanStarsLuis AlarcónAlejandro CohenMarcelo GaeteTwo criminals escape from a Calama prison and travel through the Atacama Desert towards Bolivia.
- DirectorPablo PerelmanStarsHéctor NogueraTito BustamanteXimena RodríguezAn architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago.
- DirectorLuis MargasStarsRaúl RiveraRubén UbeiraJorge Yáñez
- DirectorAlejo Álvarez
- DirectorEsteban Larraín
- DirectorDaniel Evans
- DirectorDavid Benavente
- DirectorDauno Tótoro
- DirectorElena Varela López
- DirectorPablo FernándezAndrea Henríquez
- DirectorFrancisco ToroStarsIván AnkatenPedro Manquepi
- DirectorFrancisco ToroStarsPedrito ManquepiPedro ManquepiCarmen NeculmanAkun, a Pehuenche boy who lives with his grandparents in the middle of the mountains of Alto Bio Bio. As he and his grandfather walks in the summer with the family's animals toward the Kallaquen volcano, the grandfather tells the story of Chaw Genechen who rode on his horse to the summit of the volcano, called Konün Wenu, or the entrance to heaven. Akun becomes lost in the woods when he decides that he is going to search for this Konün Wenu to find his mother, who died several years ago.
- DirectorFrancisco ToroStarsJorge ManquepiPatricio Manquepi
- DirectorClaudia HuaiquimillaStarsAndrew BargstedEliseo FernándezFrancisco Pérez-BannenAgainst the backdrop of an impending environmental crisis, two troubled adolescents strive to find their place in the world in this stirring debut film from Chile, which weaves together political themes both social and personal.
- DirectorHans MülchiStarsChristian BáezMarisol PalmaAlfredo PrietoToward the end of the 19th century, 25 people from four different Chilean indigenous groups were kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by a German businessman and taken to Europe to be exhibited as attractions in cities throughout the continent. THE HUMAN ZOO uncovers the history of this colonial spectacle, and follows the fallout into the present.
- DirectorMarcela SaidStarsFrancisca WalkerGregory CohenMaría IzquierdoManena goes on vacation with her father, Francisco, to a part of southern Chile. She discovers that her father's obsession with catching all the carp in his artificial lagoon is making the local Mapuche tribe angry, so she has to stop him.
- DirectorJuan Mora CidStarsAlvaro MuñozMaria PormaJoel MaripilA Swiss-Chilean citizen travels to Chile to receive an inheritance in Mapuche territory, an emotional and dangerous journey.
- DirectorJorge OlguínStarsFernanda UrrejolaCarolina Arredondo MarzánPaulo BrunettiTwo sisters of Mapuche descent, are hired as guides for a northamerican geologist, who works for an enterprise which want to build a dam, through an unexplored wood in Chile's south. Legend says woods are haunted by the spirits of dead Mapuche fighters, 500 years ago.
- DirectorJulio CollStarsElsa MartinelliVenantino VenantiniVíctor BarreraA dramatization of Alonso de Ercilla's 16th-century epic poem about the Spanish conquest of Chile.
- StarsElena RiveraEduardo NoriegaIsmael MartínezRomantic historical drama based on the life of Inés Suárez, the first conquistadors who traveled to Chile and co-founded Santiago in the 16th century.