Pedro Chaskel Movies

The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of...

Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.

Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the...

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their...

A Chilean-Cuban documentary film, by Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, in three parts: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (La...

The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.

Three stories rooted in violence, mental erosion and hopes that ran through Chile's soul.

Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's...

Sequences that illustrate moments in a woman's life, in parallel to the political events happening in South America during the 60's.

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

A documentary about the consequences of consuming alcohol and how it works as a weapon of the bourgeoisie to appease the thirst of the people.

Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the practices to which they were subjected, the torture...

A documentary about the activities carried out by the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees: We see presentation of writs of protection,...

A family on the brink of bankruptcy decides to do dirty jobs undercover by the government to overcome their condition.

Examines the mind and work of artist Juan Luis Martinez. Martinez's contemporaries expound upon his of reality and the political climate in Chile.

A collage of images showing the two faces of a society. That of poverty and that of wealth. Throughout the documentary, this antagonism is shown:...

Feature film that wraps, through Jorge Lillo's text, three short films by Helvio Soto

Documentary that explores the "Archives of Horror" of the General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, discovered in Paraguay in 1992 and in the...

A poetic film that records the excavations carried out by Swiss ethnologist Jean Christian Spahni at the mouth of the Loa River. Through the bone...