Cristián Sánchez
Directing
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
Directing23
movieHidden Currents
2026
Director
movieThe Invisible Land
2026
Director
movieThe Holy Office
2025
Director
movieEsperando a Godoy
2025
Director
movieThe Inner Flame
2025
Director
movieVoy y vuelvo
2023
Director
movieLa promesa del retorno
2020
Director
movieTake a Spin in the Air
2020
Director
movieTiempos malos
2015
Director
El paso del héroe y el círculo de los deseos
2011
Director
movieCautiverio feliz
1998
Director
movieDer Radfahrer von San Cristóbal
1988
Assistant Director
movieEl otro round
1984
Director
movieLos deseos concebidos
1982
Director
movieThe Chinese Shoe
1979
Director
movieVías paralelas
1975
Director
movieCosita
1971
Director
Writing18
movieHidden Currents
2026
Writer
movieThe Holy Office
2025
Writer
movieEsperando a Godoy
2025
Screenplay
movieThe Inner Flame
2025
Writer
movieTake a Spin in the Air
2020
Screenplay
movieLa promesa del retorno
2020
Screenplay
movieTiempos malos
2015
Screenplay
movieCautiverio feliz
1998
Screenplay
movieEl otro round
1984
Writer
movieThe Chinese Shoe
1979
Screenplay, Story
movieVías paralelas
1975
Screenplay
movieMarihuana
1975
Writer
Editing14
movieHidden Currents
2026
Editor
movieThe Inner Flame
2025
Editor
movieVoy y vuelvo
2023
Editor
movieTiempos malos
2015
Editor
Production12
movieHidden Currents
2026
Executive Producer
movieThe Invisible Land
2026
Executive Producer
movieEsperando a Godoy
2025
Executive Producer, Producer
movieThe Inner Flame
2025
Executive Producer
movieWith the Feet on the Ground
2024
Executive Producer
movieVoy y vuelvo
2023
Producer
movieLa promesa del retorno
2020
Producer
movieTiempos malos
2015
Executive Producer
Solita camino
2012
Executive Producer
El cumplimiento del deseo
1994
Executive Producer
movieEl otro round
1984
Producer
Sound3
Art2
movieThe Invisible Land
2026
Art Direction
movieTake a Spin in the Air
2020
Production Design