Cristián Sánchez

Directing·Jun 19, 1951·Santiago

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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".

Film	Credit
Hidden Currents2026 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Invisible Land2026 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Holy Office2025 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Esperando a Godoy2025 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Inner Flame2025 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
With the Feet on the Ground2024 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Voy y vuelvo2023 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
La promesa del retorno2020 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
Take a Spin in the Air2020 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Tiempos malos2015 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
EEl paso del héroe y el círculo de los deseos2011 · Director	Director
CCamino de sangre2003 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Cautiverio feliz1998 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
CCuídate del agua mansa1995 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
EEl cumplimiento del deseo1994 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
El otro round1984 · Writer, Producer, Director	Writer, Producer, Director
Los deseos concebidos1982 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Chinese Shoe1979 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
AAsí hablaba Astorquiza1978 · Director	Director
Vías paralelas1975 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Marihuana1975 · Writer	Writer
LLa Ermita del Socorro1974 · Director	Director
Cosita1971 · Director	Director
New Love1968 · Actor	Actor