José Luis Torres Leiva (born 1975, Chile) is a film director, editor, and screenwriter. He has made a considerable number of short films and independent videos. The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (2008) was his first feature film. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), it was nominated for a Tiger Award and won the FIPRESCI Award at IFFR in 2008. Summertime has also been supported by the HBF and had its premiere at the Venice film festival in 2011.
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24 October 2014
More than sixty years after leaving high school, former classmates Alicia, Gema, Angelica, Ximena and Maria Teresa are still devoted to their regular catch-ups in which they exchange gossip and reminiscences over elaborately presented afternoon teas.
29 November 2017
In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him.
23 September 2019
Two women who have spent their whole lives together must deal with the illness affecting one of them.
05 October 2014
After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
14 December 2017
A love triangle between a pioneer female writer; her husband -a retired military official-and the love of her life, the painter Moritz Rugendas, with whom she maintains an epistolary relationship for 10 years, with few personal encounters.
21 September 2018
Ten years after her daughter was the victim of a hate crime, brutally beaten in the streets of Santiago for being a lesbian, Nancy is asked to participate in an unsolved mysteries TV show that will recreate the incident.
04 August 2011
Lucía is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile.
08 September 2011
During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile.
31 December 2003
No Place in Anywhere can deal with many issues. It is a personal journey through image and time. It is the portrait of the "La Matriz" neighborhood in Valparaíso.
13 November 2013
Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms.
30 August 2002
Collage based on the texts and lives of Diane Arbus, Jean Eustache, Robert Walser, Alejandra Pizarnik, Franz Kafka and Carmen Jung.
02 January 2008
Ten segments linked to a primary idea: an evocation of the early cinema images.
22 August 2012
Daniel and Alejandra, a working class couple in their late 30s, move to the countryside near the Andes Mountains to begin the next chapter of their life together.
01 May 2022
Is set in the figure of a transhumant muleteer who once a year takes more than a thousand sheep up into the heart of the Andes Mountains.
18 May 2015
Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson.
27 October 2020
Amparo is 18 years old and lives in the city of Iquique, in northern Chile. Among confusion, she must deal with the discovery of her father's secret life, feel love for the first time, decide whether to leave her hometown to study, and even realize that perhaps friendship is not meant to be forever.
06 September 2013
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr.
19 June 2025
Maria travels to Puerto Williams to star in a movie. But the film crew won't be able to arrive due to a strong storm.
09 September 2021
Everything resides in the mind of Lois, schizophrenic artist and a strong follower of Virginia Woolf, who says, "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind.
08 November 2016
A film of people who daydream. A special dream that marked something in their lives, either because it was premonitory or prophetic, because it took them to a lost or forgotten place of their childhood or because he faced them with a fear that they believed to be insurmountable.
25 September 2017
Stark formal choices counterbalance profound emotions and vulnerability in this poignant lover’s goodbye.
14 January 2017
A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change irremediably and that keeps the memory of thousands of secret stories, hidden in its streets, houses and corners.
01 January 2012
A beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer.
15 July 2016
Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film.
18 August 2019
Rosario is a wandering teenager who believes that her mother, does not really love her and she's apparently right.
09 March 2005
An atmospheric portrait of four women who leave the factory where they work to go to the beach.
18 October 2018
Based on the book by author Marcelo Matthey, this short film narrates his own life in a style reminiscent of school compositions.
11 October 2021
Part of the project for the new feature film that José Luis Torres Leiva is currently preparing. The short film describes the creative process and the images that come to a writer as she reflects on the figure of lighthouses as insular guides and as a source of existential support and anchorage.
14 October 2015
The title comes from Sergei Yesenin's last poem before comiting suicide. Using Virginia Woolf's last letters as a base, this film is meditation on the power of the word and its undertsanding and the the last moments before saying "goodbye".
12 November 2017
Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the most important works of his career and motivations.
23 April 2024
Jorge becomes obsessed when he discovers that he has the same name as a young man who died. Upon investigating, he discovers that they also share an obvious physical resemblance.
02 August 2014
Blind and deaf people converse, question, surprise and educate each others. Fingers move about quicke
30 January 2016
Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile.
30 August 2003
Formal exercise on the use of the foreground and the configuration of the world through detail.
10 April 2019
In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery.
30 August 2004
The clouds over a couple give rise to a story about the small everyday gestures of a world that stops around the disturbing spaces of everyday life.
16 April 2008
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile.
18 October 2012
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a young Chilean girl slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
15 April 2013
A prominent Chilean documentary director shares his family album with the film editor of his late works.
15 October 2010
Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume a life and a glorious family past.
04 April 2013
A stately home, built in 1922, is now a dilapidated stage where memories and history are present in the old home movies starring those that once inhabited it.
07 July 2010
Initially the film is part of the project "8,8" by Chilean artist Fernando Prats. Recorded for 8 days in the area most affected by the February 2010 earthquake in Chile, it narrates a journey that subjectively crosses all the images and sounds experienced during that period.
02 April 2007
The time that Rests is a contemplative look at the daily life of the José Horwitz Barak Hospital, one of the oldest psychiatric facilities in Chile, located in the north of Santiago.
21 November 2020
This exhibition presents projects of relevance to contemporary Chilean architecture such as the reconstruction of the Pereira Palace in the center of Santiago and buildings that inhabit nature, located in the Atacama Desert and Torres del Paine, through the lens of 15 photographers Chileans and foreigners.
22 August 2011
A small tribute in memory of the filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.
