Amparo Noguera
Birthday: 1965-03-06 Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
Synopsis
Acting
La ley de Baltazar
Baltazar Rodríguez is an outgoing, friendly, and enthusiastic man, owner of a farm by the sea in southern Chile, widower, and father of three adult children whom he sees little, and with whom the relationship has never been good. However, a sudden heart attack causes Baltazar’s world to come to a standstill and family alerts get activated.
(Im)Patient
A doctor and expert in ethics, Sergio Graf has to fight the Chilean health system as a patient when he gets Guillain-Barré syndrome. It is a journey toward physical deterioration, a loss of safety, and returning to something that he has until now taken for granted: his family.
42 Days of Darkness
In a town in Chile, a woman leads a frantic search to find her missing sister amid a media storm and the police investigation. Inspired by a true case.
Alicia Dreams of a Lighthouse
Part of the project for the new feature film that José Luis Torres Leiva is currently preparing. The short film describes the creative process and the images that come to a writer as she reflects on the figure of lighthouses as insular guides and as a source of existential support and anchorage.
No nos quieren ver
After the death of a teenager in a children's shelter house, a lawyer discovers endless irregularities, errors and horrors within the institution that will shake political power.
Pacto de Fuga
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
My Tender Matador
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes
Two women who have spent their whole lives together must deal with the illness affecting one of them. The sick woman decides not to have treatment and they move into a cabin in the woods to wait for the day that death will come into their lives. The situation sees the resurfacing of the love that time had buried under the routine. Gradually their relationship will strengthen as death bides its time outside the cabin.
Río Oscuro
A mother desperate for the disappearance of her son and facing the ineffectiveness of justice to find him, decides to take the reins of the case with his own hands and goes to the mysterious town where his son was last seen.
A Fantastic Woman
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Oblivion Verses
When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns.
Post Mortem
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Tony Manero
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
Casa de remolienda
Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married.
Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".
