José Luis Torres Leiva Movies

In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the...

Lucía is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile. The film occurs in...

Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume...

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds...

After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.

A film of people who daydream. A special dream that marked something in their lives, either because it was premonitory or prophetic, because it took...

Ten segments linked to a primary idea: an evocation of the early cinema images.

No Place in Anywhere can deal with many issues. It is a personal journey through image and time. It is the portrait of the "La Matriz" neighborhood...

Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his...

The clouds over a couple give rise to a story about the small everyday gestures of a world that stops around the disturbing spaces of everyday life.

During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa,...

Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms.

An atmospheric portrait of four women who leave the factory where they work to go to the beach.

The title comes from Sergei Yesenin's last poem before comiting suicide. Using Virginia Woolf's last letters as a base, this film is meditation on...

Maria travels to Puerto Williams to star in a movie. But the film crew won't be able to arrive due to a strong storm. Alone, she'll seek help for...

A stately home, built in 1922, is now a dilapidated stage where memories and history are present in the old home movies starring those that once...

Jorge becomes obsessed when he discovers that he has the same name as a young man who died. Upon investigating, he discovers that they also share an...

Stark formal choices counterbalance profound emotions and vulnerability in this poignant lover’s goodbye.

A young girl must fulfill a mission entrusted to her by the moon: to find her father's letter. Wandering the streets of her neighborhood, she begins...

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