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Stories Set in Valparaíso
Valparaíso is a port city stacked up forty hills in a cascade of painted houses and elevator lifts. When the Panama Canal stole its shipping boom, the sailors and artists who stayed turned it into Chile's bohemian quarter. Ema is the latest film to set those hills alight. Open Valparaíso on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 3 books and 3 movies set in Valparaíso.
Ema
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him…
Valparaiso
In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …À Valparaiso one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the…
Daughter of Fortune
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the…
Frisco's Kid
When Navy SEAL lieutenant Alan Frisco Francisco's career is threatened by a bullet, he has two reasons not to wallow in self-pity: the appearance of his abandoned five-year-old niece, and his neighbor, Mia Summerton,…
Psique
Psilvia despierta en un Santiago devastado por un evento cataclísmico, su memoria tan en ruinas como la ciudad misma. En un intento por recuperar su pasado y encausar su presente, acata las instrucciones de un amigo…
The intruder
A couple descends through a forest in the surroundings of Valparaíso. Suddenly old ghosts begin to appear between them: the trees and the water begin to sing provoking the emergence of a dreadful element.
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