Francisca Castillo

The Island (2014)

A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor  •  Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
CAST:  Rosa García-Huidobro  •  Carmen Couve  •  Niles Atallah  •  Gabriela Aguilera

A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor  •  Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
CAST:  Rosa García-Huidobro  •  Carmen Couve  •  Niles Atallah  •  Gabriela Aguilera

Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012)

A powerful Argentine gangster uses everything in his power to stop the woman that wants to kill him, a sexy mercenary known as "the machine gun woman". The staggering sum of cash he offers for her head sets in motion an army of hitmen. And also, by accident, bursts ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
CAST:  Fernanda Urrejola  •  Matías Oviedo  •  Jorge Alis  •  Sofía García

A powerful Argentine gangster uses everything in his power to stop the woman that wants to kill him, a sexy mercenary known as "the machine gun woman". The staggering sum of cash he offers for her head sets in motion an army of hitmen. And also, by accident, bursts ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
CAST:  Fernanda Urrejola  •  Matías Oviedo  •  Jorge Alis  •  Sofía García

Thursday Till Sunday (2012)

As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Santi Ahumada  •  Emiliano Freifeld  •  Francisco Pérez-Bannen  •  Paola Giannini

As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Santi Ahumada  •  Emiliano Freifeld  •  Francisco Pérez-Bannen  •  Paola Giannini

The Guest (2014)

The expected return of the son for his father funeral shakes up a traditional and secretive familiar environment where women are supposed to count on men to survive as he shows himself turned into a female.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mauricio López Fernández
CAST:  Daniela Vega  •  Rosa Ramírez  •  Claudia Cantero  •  Carmen Barros

The expected return of the son for his father funeral shakes up a traditional and secretive familiar environment where women are supposed to count on men to survive as he shows himself turned into a female.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mauricio López Fernández
CAST:  Daniela Vega  •  Rosa Ramírez  •  Claudia Cantero  •  Carmen Barros

Los Barcos (2016)

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Francisca Castillo  •  João Canijo  •  Carloto Cotta  •  Rosa García-Huidobro

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Francisca Castillo  •  João Canijo  •  Carloto Cotta  •  Rosa García-Huidobro

Here in Lisbon (2015)

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor  •  Denis Côté  •  Gabriel Abrantes  •  Marie Losier
CAST:  Francisca Castillo  •  Carloto Cotta  •  João Canijo  •  Cláudia Leal

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor  •  Denis Côté  •  Gabriel Abrantes  •  Marie Losier
CAST:  Francisca Castillo  •  Carloto Cotta  •  João Canijo  •  Cláudia Leal

Below (2007)

Jaime, who’s been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house on the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse’s darkness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Andrés Aliaga  •  Rosa García-Huidobro  •  Catherine Mazoyer  •  Víctor Montero

Jaime, who’s been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house on the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse’s darkness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Andrés Aliaga  •  Rosa García-Huidobro  •  Catherine Mazoyer  •  Víctor Montero

November (2007)

Two women are traveling through a coast road, evading the pain left behind. The trip is interrupted when they see an old lady running at one side of the road, in front of the car. This encounter marks the beginning of the rest of their lives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Francisca Castillo  •  Andrea Lihn  •  Grimanesa Jiménez

Two women are traveling through a coast road, evading the pain left behind. The trip is interrupted when they see an old lady running at one side of the road, in front of the car. This encounter marks the beginning of the rest of their lives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominga Sotomayor
CAST:  Francisca Castillo  •  Andrea Lihn  •  Grimanesa Jiménez

El niño que enloqueció de amor (1998)

A young boy becomes infatuated towards an older woman. TV movie based on Eduardo Barrios's novel of the same title.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Daiber
CAST:  Enrique Lagos Lihn  •  Yuyuniz Navas  •  Francisca Castillo  •  Claudio Arredondo

A young boy becomes infatuated towards an older woman. TV movie based on Eduardo Barrios's novel of the same title.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Daiber
CAST:  Enrique Lagos Lihn  •  Yuyuniz Navas  •  Francisca Castillo  •  Claudio Arredondo

Zahorí (2022)

The Patagonian steppe is battered by a grey wind... Mora is 13 years old and intends to become a "gaucho". She questions the school and asserts her individuality towards her parents, two environmentalists from Italian-speaking Switzerland whose dream of autonomy ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marí Alessandrini
CAST:  Lara Tortosa  •  Santos Curapil  •  Cirilo Wesley  •  Sabine Timoteo

The Patagonian steppe is battered by a grey wind... Mora is 13 years old and intends to become a "gaucho". She questions the school and asserts her individuality towards her parents, two environmentalists from Italian-speaking Switzerland whose dream of autonomy ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marí Alessandrini
CAST:  Lara Tortosa  •  Santos Curapil  •  Cirilo Wesley  •  Sabine Timoteo