
About
Cristián Sánchez
Overview
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".
Known for
Acting |
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1968 | New Love | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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2025 | The Inner Flame | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | With the Feet on the Ground | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2023 | Esperando a Godoy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2023 | Voy y vuelvo | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2020 | Take a Spin in the Air | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2020 | La promesa del retorno | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2015 | Tiempos malos | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2003 | Camino de sangre | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | Cautiverio feliz | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1995 | Cuídate del agua mansa | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | El cumplimiento del deseo | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal | Directing | Assistant Director | N/A N/A |
1984 | El otro round | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1982 | Los deseos concebidos | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1979 | The Chinese Shoe | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1978 | Así hablaba Astorquiza | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1975 | Vías paralelas | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1974 | La Ermita del Socorro | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1971 | Cosita | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
Writing |
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2025 | The Inner Flame | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2024 | With the Feet on the Ground | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2023 | Esperando a Godoy | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
2020 | La promesa del retorno | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
2020 | Take a Spin in the Air | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
2015 | Tiempos malos | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
2003 | Camino de sangre | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
1998 | Cautiverio feliz | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1995 | Cuídate del agua mansa | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1994 | El cumplimiento del deseo | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
1984 | El otro round | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1982 | Los deseos concebidos | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1979 | The Chinese Shoe | Writing | Story | 59 Average |
1979 | The Chinese Shoe | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1975 | Vías paralelas | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
1975 | Marihuana | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
Production |
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2025 | The Inner Flame | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
2024 | With the Feet on the Ground | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
2023 | Esperando a Godoy | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
2023 | Esperando a Godoy | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2023 | Voy y vuelvo | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2020 | La promesa del retorno | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2015 | Tiempos malos | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2012 | Solita camino | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
1995 | Cuídate del agua mansa | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1994 | El cumplimiento del deseo | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
1984 | El otro round | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
Sound |
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2024 | With the Feet on the Ground | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
Art |
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2020 | Take a Spin in the Air | Art | Production Design | N/A N/A |
Editing |
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2025 | The Inner Flame | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2024 | With the Feet on the Ground | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2023 | Esperando a Godoy | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2023 | Voy y vuelvo | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2020 | Take a Spin in the Air | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2020 | La promesa del retorno | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2015 | Tiempos malos | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |
1998 | Cautiverio feliz | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |
1995 | Cuídate del agua mansa | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
1994 | El cumplimiento del deseo | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
1982 | Los deseos concebidos | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |
1979 | The Chinese Shoe | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |