Manuela Martelli
Also Known As: Manuela Abril Martelli Salamovich
Biography: Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress and director At the young age of 18 and without previous studies of theater Manuela Martelli was chosen to star in the film B-Happy, by Gonzalo Justiniano. The film received excellent critics and immediately the actress became the revelation of the Chilean cinema, captivating to the national and international critic. For this work she drew attention at the Toronto Film Festival and then won the Coral Award for Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival, in addition to the Best Actress Award at the Washington Latin American Film Festival. Machuca, by Andrés Wood was his next movie where he showed that his striking debut was not a beginner's luck. For her role in Machuca Manuela Martelli received the award for best actress at the Viña del Mar Festival and the Altazor Prize, awarded by the Chilean actors' guild. His third film, Como Un Avión Estrellado by Argentine director Ezequiel Acuña is his first film outside of Chile. The beginning of her cinematographic career could have been even more active, but she chose to finish her art baccalaureate studies at the Catholic University of Chile and then pursue a theatrical acting career at the same university. In 2010 he started studying film in the United States thanks to the support of a Fullbright Scholarship and Scholarships Chile Description above from the Cinechile.cl article "Manuela Martelli"
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
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Radio Corazón
Overview: Radio Corazón recreates Chile's most successful radio show of all time. Composed of 3 fun, sexy and romantic short films based on true stories as told by the show's listeners to "Rumpy", an unparalleled radio host.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-04
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My Last Round
Overview: Hugo becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, but their relationship is tested when Hugo finds a new job in the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-10
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The Future
Overview: When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Como un avión estrellado
Overview: A young man becomes obsessed with a gardening student who is about to leave for Switzerland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Scrambled Beer
Overview: After moving into a new house with his friend, Vladimir starts to notice that he awakes every day in a different week as if he has traveled trough time. Could it be the popular local drink -- beer with eggs?
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-10
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Christmas
Overview: Alejandro and Aurora, two young students, leave Santiago and are on their way to spend Christmas with family in Aurora. At the foot of the Andes, the frustrations of Alejandro and Aurora’s doubts about her sexual identity cause tension. The two teens are on the verge of collapse when they discover the presence of a young girl, Alicia, a fragile girl of sixteen years who has fled her home. Gathered around an improvised Christmas tree, Alejandro and Aurora are fascinated by the enigmatic Alicia, who is becoming the object of their desire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Valparaiso
Overview: Rocio is 20 years old and has been detained in an identification and expulsion center in Rome, pending deportation to her country of origin. During her detention Rocio has become pregnant, but she is unwilling to reveal how or with whom this has happened, preferring to remain silent. By law, pregnant women cannot be detained. So Rocio is released, four months into her pregnancy and with a temporary permit of stay on maternity grounds. Now she is free, but must also go ahead with an unwanted pregnancy.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-08-09
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B-Happy
Overview: A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-09
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The Magnetic Tree
Overview: A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local curiosity with strange properties, will awaken almost forgotten feelings and affections in the boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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Two Shots Fired
Overview: Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a woman to join his medieval wind ensemble.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-08-11
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Machuca
Overview: Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-02-24
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11 Habitaciones en Antártica
Overview: Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-13
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The Good Life
Overview: In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-08-14
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Up to the World
Overview: Davide and Loris are brothers and live in a very small village in the north of Italy. While Davide is eighteen years old and gay, Loris is almost thirty and doesn't know anything about his brother's sexuality.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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Entierro
Overview: This documentary was born with the idea of portray accurately and factually the story of the famous Chilean artist Carmengloria Morales through her art and her relationship with music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-01-09
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¡Pega Martín pega!
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Baño de mujeres
Overview: Three women get locked in the bathroom of an airport. This confinement becomes some sort of therapy that reveals the truth of each one of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-11-13
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Overnight
Overview: Ignacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-06-04
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Detrás de la lluvia
Overview: A brutal sexual murder of a minor revolts the anger of the town. On the other hand, a psychologist, Sofia Belmar is not only shocked by the event, but this also brings back some of her more gruesome memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
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Vera De Verdad
Overview: Vera, a ten-year-old girl who loves astronomy, disappears without a trace while walking with Claudio, her teacher, near the cliff of Punta Crena, in Liguria. Two years later she returns, but instead of being a teenager, she is a woman of about twenty-five years old. She doesn’t remember anything. When images resurface in her memory, Vera realizes that she has lived the life of a man, clinically dead, who woke up at the same moment in which she vanished in nothing.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-22
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Forgotten
Overview: José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memories of his involvement in Operation Condor and invaded by deep remorse, he decides to tell his only son his biggest secrets in search of redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-07-31
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Sonetàula
Overview: A disenchanted young shepherd's world is torn apart when his father is unjustly incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-08
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God Will Not Help
Overview: Set at the start of the 20th century, God Will Not Help tells the story of Teresa who suddenly arrives from Chile in a mountainous sheepherding cooperative. Her arrival disrupts the dynamics of the strictly structured isolated community of shepherds in which her only desire is to fit in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
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