José Luis Torres Leiva Movies

Ten segments linked to a primary idea: an evocation of the early cinema images.

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...

An atmospheric portrait of four women who leave the factory where they work to go to the beach.

A prominent Chilean documentary director shares his family album with the film editor of his late works. A review of one hundred photographs and a...

In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the...

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...

A small tribute in memory of the filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.

Based on the book by author Marcelo Matthey, this short film narrates his own life in a style reminiscent of school compositions. His constant...

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...

Part of the project for the new feature film that José Luis Torres Leiva is currently preparing. The short film describes the creative process...

A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change...

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. Accompanied...

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...

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...

Formal exercise on the use of the foreground and the configuration of the world through detail.

Collage based on the texts and lives of Diane Arbus, Jean Eustache, Robert Walser, Alejandra Pizarnik, Franz Kafka and Carmen Jung.

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.

Blind and deaf people converse, question, surprise and educate each others. Fingers move about quickly, translation follows promptly, both visible...