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Born June 19, 1951 · Santiago
Luis Cristián Sánchez Garfias (Santiago, June 19, 1951) is a Chilean director, screenwriter and film scholar. He studied, like several other filmmakers of his generation, at the School of Communication Arts of the Universidad Católica before the dictatorship. His films, all low-budget, have generally had little public diffusion, both because of their airtight content and because of the scarce support in the official distribution circuits. They have, however, enjoyed a positive reception at international festivals in Havana, Berlin, Biarritz and Nantes. It can be said that their cinema is "underground"; it is, in their own words, "a cinema of affective image, or of image-pulsion, in the manner of Buñuel". In his work he seeks to reveal "mythical relationships", since, in his opinion, "to reach a higher degree of complexity, cinema must deal with myth". He proclaims his affinity with what Raúl Ruiz does, although he differentiates himself from him - he says - because his cinema "is baroque" while his is more inclined towards an "asceticism of the image, and a more classical structure, of linear narration".

The Holy Office
2025

Esperando a Godoy
2025

The Inner Flame
2025

With the Feet on the Ground
2024

Voy y vuelvo
2023

La promesa del retorno
2020

Take a Spin in the Air
2020

Tiempos malos
2015
Camino de sangre
2003

Cautiverio feliz
1998
Cuídate del agua mansa
1995
El cumplimiento del deseo
1994

El otro round
1984

Los deseos concebidos
1982

The Chinese Shoe
1979
Así hablaba Astorquiza
1978

Vías paralelas
1975
La Ermita del Socorro
1974

Cosita
1971