Various projects from companies associated with the Chiledoc sector brand will participate in the 10th edition of the Conecta International Documentary Industry Meeting, where they will be able to participate in different spaces that promote exchange between filmmakers and industry representatives.
Asteroid 2518
Country: Chile
Dir: Amanda Rutllant da Cunha
Prod: Simón Vargas and Ignacia Merino
Chiledoc Company: Make More Meaning Media
Storyline: After discovering unpublished documents about her astrophysicist great-grandfather lost in a vault at a Chilean observatory, Amanda, a young filmmaker, decides to make a documentary about him—but an autoimmune disease will threaten both her and her film project.
Sketches of the End of the World
Country: Chile
Dir: David Guzmán
Prod: Pablo Arias Daud and Simón Vargas
Chiledoc Company: Tres Tercios
Storyline: Sketches of the end of the world explores six Chilean ecosystems through naturalist illustrators and their creative processes. In each episode, a naturalist travels across the territory with scientists and local communities, creating an illustrated sketchbook that reveals the human impact on ecosystems and promotes their conservation.
Chuchu
Country: Chile
Dir: Maria Jose Diaz
Prod: Maria Jose Diaz
Chiledoc Company: Galgo Storytelling
Storyline: Chuchu is an essayistic documentary that explores the silences and opaque zones of family memory. Through family archives and by using artificial intelligence as a tool to reconstruct lost fragments, the film investigates how secrets pass through generations and shape identities.
Fighting a Pink Plague
Country: Chile
Dir: Pablo Rivas
Prod: Sebastián Lavados
Chiledoc Company: Trino Films
Storyline: The fight against HIV in Chile, an ultraconservative country in the post-dictatorship era. Pablo, an HIV-positive activist, and my mother Cecilia, a renowned immunologist, are the protagonists of a battle against indifference, precariousness, and stigma.
Unveiling the Cosmos: the Rubin Observatory
Country: Chile, Spain and Germany
Dir: Gonzalo Argandoña
Prod: Diego Rojas
Chiledoc Company: Cábala Films
Storyline: In Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our view of the Universe. By mapping the southern sky every three nights, it will reveal hidden worlds, cosmic explosions, and traces of dark matter and dark energy, powered by human curiosity and AI.
The criminal record of Madame Wittmann
Country: Chile
Dir: Nicolása Videla and Anastasia Benavente
Prod: Kevin Magne Tapia
Chiledoc Company: Cinespecie
Storyline: Transsexual vedette Evelyn Wittmann (74), exiled in France, returns to Chile and confronts her past: in 1968 she was kidnapped and forced to appear in a documentary about criminals, whose search actively involves transgenerational dialogues about memory, gender, and reparation.
Gondola
Country: Chile
Dir: Pablo Cuturrufo
Prod: Isidora Fajardo and Nicholas Hooper H.
Chiledoc Company: CUBHO Audiovisual
Storyline: An anonymous user sinks into the worst corners of the internet until he finds Gondola, a simple, peaceful meme that becomes a refuge. Gondola shows how hope can appear in the most unexpected places. An essay built from real digital archives about tenderness, community, and the power of images.
Sons: The Memory That Remains
Country: Chile and France
Dir: Francisco López Balló
Prod: Francisco López Balló, Francia Aranda and Lise Bouzidi
Chiledoc Company: Ballover Films
Storyline: Hijos is built around the passage of time, with images and sounds that embody a memory that ranges from the historical to the intimate, using cinema as a way of capturing time, and as a way of evoking childhood memories that show the desolation left by the military dictatorship in Chile society and its scars today.
Hello Ulises, It’s Paulina
Country: Chile
Dir: Paulina Soto
Prod: Nicole Bonilla and Liam Fang
Chiledoc Company: La Madre
Storyline: Paulina embarks on a journey across the Great Island of Tierra del Fuego in search of Ulises, her missing friend. For over ten years, she records encounters, landscapes, and silences, discovering that her quest is not only for him but for herself — a way to exile from motherhood.
The Capture: The Incredible Story of the Lawyer Who Made It Possible
Country: Chile
Dir: Rafael Valdeavellano
Prod: Carola Fuentes
Chiledoc Company: La Ventana Cine
Storyline: “The Capture: the Incredible Story of the Lawyer Who Made It Possible” portrays Hernán Fernández, a man so extraordinary he seems unreal. He devoted his life to confronting Chile’s darkest truths. From Tongoy, he keeps fighting the shadows others fear to face.
Home
Country: Chile
Dir: Dafne Manríquez
Prod: Ferrán Vergara
Chiledoc Company: Cagliostro Cinema
Storyline: Former residents of care homes build, from memory, an imagined house whose walls hold the voices and silences of a childhood far from their biological families. Each room awakens experiences and each object becomes a bridge to belonging, reshaping home and turning absence into a new place to inhabit.
Wounded Faith
Country: Chile
Dir: Josefina Morandé and María Elena Wood
Prod: Patricio Pereira
Chiledoc Company: María Wood Producciones
Storyline: In Chile, the Catholic Church went from being a refuge and moral voice to an institution marked by abuse, cover-ups, and social disconnection. Through La Legua, worker priests, lay people, and dissidents, we confront the collapse of the hierarchy with the portrait of a broken faith that, from the margins, seeks to be reborn.
The Safest Place
Country: Chile
Dir: Milena Castro and Magdalena Hurtado
Prod: Isabel Reyes and Ignacia Merino
Chiledoc Company: Dos Be Producciones
Storyline: After years of silence, three adult women come together to reconstruct the memory of the sexual abuse they suffered in their childhood, perpetrated by relatives in their own homes.
Through an intimate and poetic story, they will try to build the safe space that was taken from them so many years ago.
Masters of Sound
Country: Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil
Dir: Pablo Stephens
Prod: Cristián Hidalgo
Chiledoc Company: NeuroFilms
Storyline: This series creates a musical and anthropological dialogue between countries through the craft of lutherie. Despite the distance, shared passions—devotion to their work, family tradition, and a deep connection to music as a universal art—form a common emotional thread with the audience.
Object
Country: Chile and Germany
Dir: Loreto Quijada
Prod: Fernando Bascuñán, Sebastian Züger and Loreto Quijada
Chiledoc Company: Faro Cine
Storyline: Loreto, a newcomer from Chile, finds family photos at a tram stop in Cologne. This random event connects her with other immigrants living in the NRW region and with a local ally. Numbed memories come afloat as she digs, talks, and feels old things.
An Idea of Family
Country: Chile and Brazil
Dir: Carlos Villegas Leiva
Prod: Dagoberto Flores Venegas / Catalina Espinoza Badillo / Julio Matos
Chiledoc Company: DiezCincuenta
Storyline: What starts as a true-crime tale about three women —one jailed under dictatorship, one who fled Brazil, and one who took her life— shifts when their nephew, now a father and the film’s director, steps in and questions his own story. Through archives and travel, he attempts to reunite his family as his children point toward another future.
About Conecta
Conecta is an international documentary industry event aimed at Latin American producers and filmmakers with documentary projects in development, editing, post-production, or completed but not yet premiered.
The meeting brings together national and international industry professionals, including representatives from funds, markets, and festivals; distributors, sales agents, exhibitors; as well as platform and television programmers, and producers.
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