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...

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...

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

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

Between April and June 2006, nearly one million Chilean high school students captivated the nation as they organized in protest and temporarily...

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 female mutt called "Perla" (Pearl) is abandoned by her owner on the top of the San Cristobal hill, in the capital city of Santiago, Chile. Without...

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

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

SOMOS + follows a political demonstration by women who rise up with a unified voice against Pinochet’s military regime.

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

Detailed record of the operative technique used by Professor Dr. Alfonso Asenjo to perform surgery on a patient with Parkinson's disease at the...

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...

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

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

A maid loses all her jobs because her son cries at night, and that bothers her bosses. The play portrays the wandering and desperation of the...

A poet recites his verses. The people who listen to him, inspired by him, form the Spring Party, which later becomes the Spring Army. It is decided...

Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the...

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.