{"id":10567,"date":"2025-12-01T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/?p=10567"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:22:51","slug":"23-projects-selected-for-conectados-in-santiago-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/noticias\/23-projects-selected-for-conectados-in-santiago-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"23 projects selected for CONECTADOS in Santiago, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Latin American feature-length documentaries will be participating in this section of CONECTA 10. This category is aimed at projects in the development or production stage.<\/strong>
\nThe projects selected for the Conectados section<\/strong> are:<\/p>\n

just stay silent<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil and Colombia
\nDir: Juliana Gouveia
\nProd: Kiki Garcia (Brasil) y Emmanuel Orozco (Colombia)
\nStoryline: The grandchildren of repressors are the remaining, unopened archives. I\u2019m Juliana, a filmmaker and granddaughter of a Black man who was a Navy commander during the dictatorship in Brazil. I seek the truth about my grandfather through archives, memories, and talks with my mother.<\/p>\n

ARCHAEOLOGY OF TORTURE<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil, France and Norway
\nDir: Carla Gallo
\nProd: Rafaella Costa
\nStoryline: While excavating the facilities of DOI-Codi, the main apparatus of repression during Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship, a group of archaeologists unearth some of the darkest chapters in the country\u2019s history. Interwoven with the excavations, archives and silenced stories evoke the political memory of the era and the dreams of a nation.<\/p>\n

Way to freedom<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Argentina
\nDir: Maria Manzanares
\nProd: Ail\u00e9n Herrad\u00f3n
\nStoryline: Betiana, a young machi (Mapuche doctor), after the highly publicized murder of her cousin Rafael Nahuel, decides to resist in the forest, her pharmacy, alongside her community. This demonstrates that the conviction of who one is can shake up a seemingly unbreakable system. However, criminalization continues, and telling her story becomes urgent.<\/p>\n

When the Fog Advances<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Jaime D\u00edaz
\nProd: Aukaleb Ankaro
\nStoryline: After discovering that she was taken during the dictatorship in Chile, Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas embarks on a journey in search of her biological mother. As she unravels her past, the harsh reality of child theft and a family relationship marked by violence is revealed.<\/p>\n

Ways to Travel<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Meme Cabello y Antonia Mart\u00ednez Valls
\nProd: Juan Bautista Tagle
\nStoryline: In a self-built settlement on the outskirts of Talagante, Chile, children of different Latin American nationalities imagine traveling in a parked van in search of distant family. Through this collective adventure, they explore migration, identity and belonging, blurring the line between reality and fiction.<\/p>\n

Daughter of the Sun<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Costa Rica
\nDir: Michele Ferris Dobles
\nProd: Natasha Carmona Cruz
\nStoryline: Lela Taliashvili is a Georgian astrophysicist living in exile in Costa Rica who devotes her life to studying and communicating with the Sun; between science and philosophy, her story is a quest to understand the cosmos and our fleeting place in it.<\/p>\n

Kimbo<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Cuba
\nDir: Paloma Gomide
\nProd: Jorge L. Garcia
\nStoryline: Catalina, a fifty-year-old psychologist who decided to give up her profession, lives and works in the middle of Havana’s largest garbage dump.
\nIn a journey between memories and the harshness of the present, Catalina reveals the dynamics of the garbage society and shows the reality of a country.<\/p>\n

The other voice<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Argentina and Spain
\nDir: Agustina P\u00e9rez Rial
\nProd: Nicol\u00e1s Gil Lavedra
\nStoryline: Based on unpublished letters and photographs, The Other Voice reconstructs the years of Mercedes Sosa\u2019s exile (1979\u20131982). An intimate and political portrait of the woman behind the icon, revealing her strength, her fragility, and the power of her voice as an instrument of resistance and collective memory.<\/p>\n

Prophecies<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Bolivia and Peru
\nDir: Miguel Hilari
\nProd: Nayme Bustillos, Guadalupe Cuba, Miguel Hilari
\nStoryline: A silent film from 1925\u2019s Bolivia showed a forbidden love: She was a white landowner, he an Aymara servant. For that reason, the film was censored and burned. Today, we do a journey searching for traces of this story. Is the ancient tale of an impossible love still relevant today?<\/p>\n

Lourdes<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Mariana Cobra
\nProd: Morena Koti
\nStoryline: Director and protagonist of the documentary, Mariana, 40 years old, finds herself facing a doubt: will she be a mother or not? She closely follows her grandmother Lourdes’ Alzheimer, and the care given to her by her mother and aunts amidst much beauty, affection, and love.<\/p>\n

Marithea<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Colombia
\nDir: Diego Cruz
\nProd: Frank Carre\u00f1o
\nStoryline: Marithea is a young Afro-Colombian rapper who became an icon of Ibero-American freestyle, defying a scene historically dominated by men. But now, tired of the constant pressure of competitions and the weight of representing those who see her as a feminist symbol, she has only one goal in mind: to retire at the peak of her career.<\/p>\n

MODULE 33<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Sebasti\u00e1n Moreno
\nProd: Sebasti\u00e1n Moreno
\nStoryline: In a high-security module, writer Nona Fern\u00e1ndez interviews Mauricio Hern\u00e1ndez Norambuena, former militant of the Manuel Rodr\u00edguez Patriotic Front, sentenced to 30 years for being one of the intellectual authors of the assassination of Jaime Guzm\u00e1n and for the kidnapping of Cristi\u00e1n Edwards. What begins as material for a book becomes an intimate and political journey that explores the convictions, contradictions and ghosts of a man who embodies the open wounds of Chile’s recent history.<\/p>\n

Our fur baby Moma<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Uruguay
\nDir: Juan Ignacio Fern\u00e1ndez Hoppe
\nProd: Carolina Campo Lupo
\nStoryline: Juan Ignacio (44) is a documentary filmmaker who lives alone with Moma, an old dog, whose ownership he shares with his ex-girlfriend Maite. Overcome by a midlife crisis, he launches into filming a documentary about the world of fur babys, in a desperate attempt to take charge of a debt that he may no longer be able or willing to pay: fatherhood.<\/p>\n

Pablo from Chill-e<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Tom\u00e1s Alzamora Mu\u00f1oz y Pablo Acevedo
\nProd: Pablo Calisto
\nStoryline: Since the early days of trap in Chile, one name stands out: Pablo Chill-e (25). His lyrics expose violence, inequality, and neglect, portraying a country many refuse to see. Behind the controversial artist lies a sensitive young man who found in music, family, and social action his weapons against injustice.<\/p>\n

QUEEN OF THE PEOPLE<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Colombia
\nDir: M\u00f3nica Taboada-Tapia
\nProd: Beto Rosero
\nStoryline: Filmed over a decade, Queen of the People follows Naomy, an Afro-Colombian teen thrust into pageants by her mother and crowned queen of Cartagena\u2019s biggest grassroots contest. As promises fade and she becomes a mother, different generations face gender roles in a city marked by sex tourism, violence, and the disappearance of women.<\/p>\n

SEA ROUTE<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Vivienne Barry
\nProd: Samuel Leon
\nStoryline: The \u2018Ruta del Mar\u2019 invites us to enjoy tourism, but instead reveals the most striking and painful contrasts. From Chile’s most exclusive and elegant beach resorts to the most extreme pollution and poverty, not to mention the destruction of nature and human rights violations. A journey to the most contrasting extremes that are plain to see on our Central Coast, but which the sand and time strive to hide.<\/p>\n

South Pole Explorers<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Jota Loyola
\nProd: Juan Ram\u00edrez
\nStoryline: At the South Pole, known as the \u2018Heart of the Planet\u2019, three simultaneous maritime expeditions, led by explorers from a wide range of fields, reveal global research in the midst of Earth’s most hostile climate, showing how international collaboration is key to understanding and preserving this unique ecosystem.<\/p>\n

A Body for Waldirene<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Rafael Farina Issas y Lu\u00edza Zaidan
\nProd: Ana Freitas
\nStoryline: Waldirene is a retired manicurist facing the challenges of old age. In 1971, she underwent the first gender reassignment surgery in Latin America. After decades of silence, Wal tells how her body became a battleground between a visionary surgeon, the Brazilian military dictatorship, and her own dreams.<\/p>\n

A PATH OF THORNS<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Mexico
\nDir: Adriana Otero
\nProd: Adriana Otero, Paola Stefani
\nStoryline: After a miscarriage turns into a wrongful accusation of homicide, a Mexican Indigenous woman is sentenced to serve a long prison term. Ten years later, she seeks to understand the reasons behind the injustice that marked her life, in search of her true freedom and to prove her innocence.<\/p>\n

Widows of Living Husbands<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Diego Kelmann y Jussara Costa
\nProd: Renata Lobo
\nStoryline: In Brazil\u2019s rural Jequitinhonha Valley, parents struggle to remain present in their families\u2019 lives, even as they\u2019re forced to spend long months working far from home. This historical cycle of migration leaves deep marks across the entire community.<\/p>\n

You? Mom?<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Daniel Gon\u00e7alves, Nathalia Santos
\nProd: Daniel Gon\u00e7alves, Dani Nascimento, Roberto Berliner, Sabrina Garcia, Leo Ribeiro
\nStoryline: You? Mom? Camila, Nathalia, Moira, Luciana\u2026 These and other women have their ability to bear and care for a child tested every day. For them, being a mother isn’t compulsory. They are mothers with disabilities.<\/p>\n

I also want to resign<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Puerto Rico
\nDir: Natalie Uni Marie
\nProd: Vilma Liella
\nStoryline: The archives from the phones of three friends, sex workers, and activists in Puerto Rico reveal their resistance to the violence that surround them. Through Uni\u2019s perspective, as co-protagonist and filmmaker, the documentary offers an intimate look into their world, exploring human limits, power, and body autonomy within a colonial context.<\/p>\n

Analog Zambra<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile and Mexico
\nDir: Paula Leonvendagar
\nProd: Mat\u00edas Cardone
\nStoryline: An intimate portrait of Alejandro Zambra, a key figure in Latin American literature. Filmed in Chile and Mexico, the documentary follows his creative process as he reflects on writing, migration, technology, and the passage of time in the digital age.<\/p>\n

About Conecta<\/strong>
\nConecta 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.
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n

Press Contact<\/strong>
\nNatalia Raipan | periodista@ccdoc.cl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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