Best Chilean animation movies
A curated collection of popular animation movies from Chile.
Beast (2022)
Beast (2022)
Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
The Hyperboreans (2024)
The Hyperboreans (2024)
Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worlds and haunted by the shadow of a Chilean Nazi writer as a demonic figure.
Elulu (2021)
Elulu (2021)
With the loss of his mother in mind, a scientist/painter returns to his childhood home. While he tries to find peace, a caterpillar and his fellas with superpowers are in the house on a quest of their own. They’ll eventually meet and, after a battle, the multiple links between them will be revealed.
Pasta (2007)
Pasta (2007)
A man and a woman eat pasta. Through food, they express their love and their heartbreak. They approach, they distance themselves and they play, while a waiter brings them more pasta.
The Wolf House (2018)
The Wolf House (2018)
After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.
The Smaller Room (2009)
The Smaller Room (2009)
In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".
La Noche Boca Arriba (2012)
La Noche Boca Arriba (2012)
A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
The Feast (2023)
The Feast (2023)
In a dystopian world, a creature attends a banquet organized by a magical refrigerator. Thus begins his unbridled descent into a spiral of consumption. Corrupted and turned into a beast, he faces a macabre end.
Hijo de Dios (2013)
Hijo de Dios (2013)
A small village survives thanks to the work of a young man whose job is to bury the dead of a nearby city. Money is at the center of the story, and the cash which passes from hand to hand guides us through a tale full of people interested in satisfying their darkest needs.
Newbird (2021)
Newbird (2021)
A lazy cat moves out of the way to let a baby bluebird finally come to life.
Papelucho y el marciano (2007)
Papelucho y el marciano (2007)
Papelucho, who has always been fascinated by aliens, decides to catch one and sets a trap. Amazingly it succeeds, and the lost Martian child Det ends up living through Papelucho, with hilarious consequences. The two build a spaceship and travel to Mars, only to escape back to Earth again after the Great Leader of Mars threatens to eat them. Det eventually takes over the body of Papelucho's dog, Choclo, but when Choclo's health is put at risk Papelucho has a difficult decision to make.
Here's the Plan (2017)
Here's the Plan (2017)
The film follows the life of a married cat and dog couple who start off with a dream to open a bakery, only for their lives to drift apart due to a variety of circumstances.
El almohadón de plumas (2007)
El almohadón de plumas (2007)
Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
Once in the Night (2018)
Once in the Night (2018)
Through illustrations and sounds, Una vez la noche experiments with the obsessive narration of four diverse characters –all of which are lost in the settings of their memory– to exhibit crucial events that marked their lives forever. Through a particular mise-en-scène, the film provides apparently ordinary people with a brilliant singularity, introducing us to a new perception of reality.
Cesante (2003)
Cesante (2003)
Carlos Meléndez is unemployed, and finding himself without basic services such as gas, water and electricity. For twelve hours, he will have to endure and battle against the various ills of a congested city - bureaucratic secretaries of ill will, punk criminals, policemen, among others- in order to seek the respect of his peers.
Microdreams (2022)
Microdreams (2022)
A set of contexts without rational explanation.
Halahaches (2016)
Halahaches (2016)
An insecure young Selk'nam named Telkoy, prepares for his rite of passage, a tradition of his people in Tierra del Fuego. To become a man, he must choose between following his beliefs of his people or risk his life to protect his own.
¿Y usted quién es? (2020)
¿Y usted quién es? (2020)
The story of a writer who, after having great success with his first book, has a disastrous creative block. So much so, that not even pencils want to write for him. In his anguish, a delivery girl arrives at his door and gives him a mysterious box. After inviting her in to have a coffee, they share a pleasant conversation about fame and success. What’s in the box? Nobody knows what inspiration can be wrapped in.
Freelance (2024)
Freelance (2024)
A young hopeful Knight reports for duty at the King's court. Little does he know that slaying dragons might not be his biggest challenge.
The Happy Version of Eden (2021)
The Happy Version of Eden (2021)
The phone rings at the President's house. His lover weeps. The F-19 bombs La Moneda. Allende commits suicide. Bodies are thown from the air. A mutilated eye. Human rights. Graphite and ink.
Yasha Gozen (2022)
Yasha Gozen (2022)
Short film based on the manga of the same name by Ryouko Yamagishi.
Singing With Meanin (2016)
Singing With Meanin (2016)
The life of the composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist Violeta Parra, in stop-motion animation.
Animalia Paradoxa (2024)
Animalia Paradoxa (2024)
The list of fantastic, mythical animals compiled by Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 18th century work Systema Naturae could well be the seed of Niles Atallah’s Animalia Paradoxa – an eccentric tale set in a post-apocalyptic world that follows a strange creature struggling to survive. Dressed in rags and a gas mask, moving like an alien dancer, Animalia roams through an abandoned building – crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic, waste. She laboriously carries and fills up an array of empty bottles to enjoy a modest bath. The camera eye lingers on her with compassion and explores the architectures of trash at an agonising pace. We know in our hearts that Animalia is a human-amphibian longing for the sea…
Something in the Garden (2021)
Something in the Garden (2021)
Dead of night in a residential area. The crickets' chirping is interrupted by a strange presence, a slithering creature lurking in the darkness. An extraordinary interplay of light and shadow and a prodigious sound design in a short film full of sheer horror.