Cristián Sánchez
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".
Fotos
Filme (26)
The Stationary Traveler
2026 · Cristián Sánchez (As himself)
Hidden Currents
2026 · Director, Writer, Editor, Music, Executive Producer
The Invisible Land
2026 · Director, Writer, Editor, Art Direction, Music, Executive Producer
The Holy Office
2025 · Director, Writer
Esperando a Godoy
2025 · Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Producer, Editor
The Inner Flame
2025 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor
With the Feet on the Ground
2024 · Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Music, Editor
Voy y vuelvo
2023 · Director, Editor, Producer
La promesa del retorno
2020 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor
Take a Spin in the Air
2020 · Director, Screenplay, Production Design, Editor
Tiempos malos
2015 · Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Screenplay
El paso del héroe y el círculo de los deseos
2011 · Director, Script
Camino de sangre
2003 · Screenplay, Director
Cautiverio feliz
1998 · Editor, Screenplay, Director
Cuídate del agua mansa
1995 · Producer, Director, Editor, Writer
El cumplimiento del deseo
1994 · Executive Producer, Director, Editor, Screenplay
Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal
1988 · Assistant Director
El otro round
1984 · Producer, Director, Writer
Los deseos concebidos
1982 · Writer, Editor, Director
The Chinese Shoe
1979 · Director, Screenplay, Editor, Story
Así hablaba Astorquiza
1978 · Director
Vías paralelas
1975 · Director, Screenplay
Marihuana
1975 · Writer
La Ermita del Socorro
1974 · Director
Cosita
1971 · Director
New Love
1968