Chiledoc Production Companies

Landless Children

Directed by:

René Ballesteros

Produced by:

Nicole Bonilla

Production Company

Les films d’Ici / La Madre / La Ballesta

Contact:

  • Year

    2025

  • Format

    Editing

  • Length

    90 min

  • Country

    France / Chile

Biography

La Madre

La Madre seeks to highlight shared stories and struggles through the voices of women and sexual dissidences, aiming for a more just, empathetic, and liberated society. Travesía Travesti (2021), Los niños sin tierra (2025), and Angelitas (2026) are some of the titles in our portfolio.

Synopsis

In France, Juan wakes up from a nightmare in which he sees a seriously injured woman, perhaps his biological mother. Juan embarks on a journey to his homeland, the Mapuche territory in southern Chile, to try to understand his dreams, his adoption, to try to distinguish truth from lies, to find his lost land.

  • René

    Ballesteros

    Director

    Psychologist and filmmaker. After working with minors in La Araucanía, he studied film in France. His documentary The Burn won several awards in 2010. In 2017, he co-wrote Oblivion Verses, which was awarded in Venice. His second documentary, The Dreams of the Castle, was awarded at Valdivia in 2018.

  • Nicole

    Bonilla

    Producer

    Executive producer. In 2019, she founded La Madre, a production company focused on women’s issues and sexual dissidence. Executive producer of “Travesti Odyssey”, “Landless Children”, “It’s Like Singing Happy Birthday and Not Eating Cake”, “Angelitas”, among others.

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I am my Grandma’s Granddaughter

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Ayllu

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The Conference

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The Art of Wasting Time

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Neither here, nor there

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Like a flame lit on a dark night

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Carmela and the Walkers

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Se’ K’o

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Final Voyage

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Leaf Remnants

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The Winds’ Thirst

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Uncomfortable Body

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Lost Men

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Giraffe dream

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Returning Where I Have Never Been

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Magic Map of Chile

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Dyaspora

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The river before the curve

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The little forensic

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Anna Borges do Sacramento

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Custodio, the tiger of the east

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The Plan

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Punta Arenazo

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The Community of the Condemned

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Landless Children

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Mom Lulú

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MAMA

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Miss Architect

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Ino Moxo The Healer’s Dream

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Sketches of the End of the World

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Inclusive Beach

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Southern channels

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Beyond the cup

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The Letelier File

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No money, no honey

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The Data of the Captain

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The colony

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Krespita: The Final Battle

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PHOSPHO

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Days of Julio

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The Art of War

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Dysphoria Football Club

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Cobija

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Scarlet Girls

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Boca Vieja

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Ekekas. Single mothers and their burdens.

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The Silence of Telephones

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