Cristián Sánchez (director)

For other people named Cristián Sánchez, see Cristián Sánchez.

Luis Cristián Sánchez Garfias (born 19 June 1951) is a Chilean film director, writer and teacher.^[1] He is best known as one of the few who actively made underground film inside the repressive Pinochet regime and is a self-proclaimed adherent of the Poetics of Cinema of Raúl Ruiz whom he studied under at the Universidad Católica in the early 1970s and wrote a book about in 2011.^[2][3] His films El zapato chino (1979) and Los deseos concebidos (1982) were both shown at the Berlinale in 1983^[4] and both figure in cinechile.cl's 2016 greatest Chilean films of all-time list.^[5]

Cristián Sánchez
Occupation	Film director

Select filmography

• Vías paralelas (1975)
• El zapato chino (1979)^[6]
• Los deseos concebidos (1982)^[7]
• El otro round (1984)
• El cumplimiento del deseo (1994)^[8]
• Cuídate del agua Mansa (1995)
• Cautiverio feliz (1998)
• Camino de sangre (2003)
• Tiempos malos (2008)^[9]
• La promesa del retorno (2020)
• Date una vuelta en el aire (2020)

Bibliography

• Cristián Sánchez Garfias (2011). Aventura del cuerpo: El pensamiento cinematográfico de Raúl Ruiz. Ocho Libros Editores. ISBN 9789563350494.

Further reading

• Jorge Ruffinelli, ed. (2006). El cine nómada de Cristián Sánchez. Uqbar Editores. ISBN 9789568601034.