Chile will arrive at the 68th #DOK Leipzig# (27 October–2 November 2025) with two official selections and one project at the DOK Co-Pro Market, alongside a 14-strong industry delegation coordinated by Chiledoc. Five producers travel with backing from the Ministry of Culture’s programme for participation in international markets, which has reinstated Leipzig after several years away.
In the International Feature Film Competition, Green Desert by Meliza Luna will world-premiere. The film traces a decade of environmental damage in south-central Chile, linking pine monocultures, drought and wildfires, while weaving archival materials and family testimony. It is produced by Araucaria Cine and Vestigio Cine.
Chilean animation is represented in competition by Petra and the Sun from Malu Furche and Stefania Malacchini, receiving its German premiere after a Special Jury Prize at #Tribeca. The short follows Petra, 71, who discovers the preserved body of a mountaineer amid an extreme thaw in Chile’s southern Andes.
At the DOK Co-Pro Market, Tiziana Panizza’s Fossil Matter documents the extraction of a 130-million-year-old ichthyosaur from the southern ice fields, drawing connections to museum objects from a region once described as «the end of the world.» The market is a financing and networking platform linking producers and filmmakers to international partners.
