Content from Maltrato Films

Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.

In the Atacama Desert, Antay and his friends struggle to keep their drought-stricken town afloat.

Manu, a trans immigrant, must return to her native Chile after 10 years in France. In the days leading up to her departure, Manu’s platonic friend Daniel proposes marriage with the intention of solving her visa issues. Manu strongly considers the offer, but she’s wholly disheartened at the prospect of a life without love, romance, and sex—that is, until she meets a fellow foreigner who instills in her the hope for a romantic future.

A journey through time, memory and experience of Aymara women of the Chilean Plateau, 4200 meters above sea level. Through their voices we'll present their points of view on Gabriela Blas, a local pastor imprisoned for the lost of her three years old son, while looking after her Llama herd. Days go by as we listen to their reflections on motherhood, life and death, in this abandoned land, were grazing Llamas and Alpacas is the sole breadwinner in a world in retreat, abandoned on the Andes mountains.