Biography
Sebastián Lelio (born 8 March 1974) is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and editor.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Wave
2025
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A Chilean student becomes involved in a feminist movement at her university. Suddenly, she becomes a central figure in the movement.
The Rider
2023
Director
From an ambitious album - performed using a horse skeleton - The Horse sees Herbert team up with long-time collaborator and Academy Award-winning dire...
Blanquita
2023
Thanks
Blanca, an 18-year-old foster home resident, is the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. Yet,...
The Wonder
2022
Director, Writer
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
Los Jaivas: Todos juntos
2020
Thanks
Los Jaivas are the most important rock band in the history of Chile. 55 years of music and friendship. Memories emerge note by note, song after song, ...
This Is Cristina
2019
as Alejandro
Cristina and Susana have been best friends since high school. Now, both over 30 years old, they are still living like they did in their teenage years....
Gloria Bell
2019
Director, Writer, Producer
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clu...
Disobedience
2018
Writer, Director
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish com...
A Fantastic Woman
2017
Director, Writer
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrut...
Neruda
2016
Thanks
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of ...
Locations: Looking for Rusty James
2013
as Self (voice)
A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was shot...
The Year of the Tiger
2013
Editor, Director
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
Gloria
2013
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age...
Christmas
2009
Editor, Writer, Director
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 ...
12 Minutes
2007
Editor, Director, Director of Photography
A young director is commissioned with the task of doing a short film for a watch company.
The Sacred Family
2006
Writer, Director, Editor
It's Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. A self-centered and successful father, a disoriented mother and a son over...
Carga vital
2003
Director, Writer, Editor
Julia, a young teenage schoolgirl, tries to hide her newborn baby from her parents.
Fragmentos urbanos
2002
Director
Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.
Four
1996
Director, Writer
One night, a couple and a woman are driving home from a party. In a rarefied, surreal environment, the characters begin to have near-death experiences...
Chamber Music
1996
as Himself
A group of chamber musicians rehearse Bach at their homes.
Chamber Music
1996
Director
A group of chamber musicians rehearse Bach at their homes.
Bride
N/A
Screenplay, Director
A woman created to be an ideal wife— the singular obsession of a brilliant entrepreneur— rejects her creator, and is forced to flee her confined exist...