Movies by Ernesto Meléndez

Phantom Project
Waiting for his big dream (a film role) to come true, Pablo works as a training actor in a patient-care programme at a medical faculty and a paid participant in group therapy sessions. To make ends meet, he sublets a room in his apartment in a suburb of Santiago de Chile. However, he seems to have lost control when his housemate departs, leaving him with rent arrears, a collection of plants, a dog, a woolly jumper, and... a house ghost. Pablo is 30, and when it comes to romance he is also chasing apparitions. He is secretly still in love wit...

Diablada
A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.

Plants
For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.

Agua del este
Pablo, after five years of the death of his wife, returns to the hotel of his family in Puelo with the objective to close that painful wound. During this trip, he reconnects with people from his childhood and also meets Ana, the new hotel manager, who becomes his spiritual guide to reconcile Pablo with nature, which was the cause of his wife’s passing.

Hurricane Season
When a group of teens finds a corpse floating in a canal, the brutal reality behind the perverse crime unravels a town's hidden secrets.

Little White Lie
A small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for.

Cuarto de Hora
Alex (25), is a young Haitian man living in Chile who is undocumented and does not speak Spanish. After a car accident he is helped and translated by Daniela (50), a passerby with whom he is going to live what could be his last 15 minutes of life.