Orlando Lübbert
After studying architecture, Orlando LÜBBERT (1945, Chile) started working in the Chilean film industry as assistant to Patricio GUZMÁN. In the ’70s, he migrated to Berlin, where he made films and taught at the Open University. In 1995, he returned to Chile. Lübbert’s feature film Taxi Para Tres (2001) awarded him great public and critical acknowledgement, he won 30 awards both in Chile and abroad, the most important being the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. In his late career, he turned towards teaching, educating students at many universities: the Film School of the University of Mexico (CUEC), the Free University of Berlin, the Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba, the Film School of Chile and the University of Santiago de Chile.
Filmography
Los puños frente al cañón/Fists against the cannon (1975, doc), El paso/Der Übergang (1978), Chile, donde comienza el dolor (1982), Chile, la cultura necesaria (1986), Die Kolonie (1987), Chile, la herida abierta (1999, doc), Taxi para tres (2001), Cirqo (2018)
Orlando Lübbert at IFFR
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Die Fäuste vor der Kanone
A remembering of the desperate origins of Chile’s labour movement in the early 1900s.
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Taxi para tres
Cutting comedy became box-office sensation in Santiago. A taxi breaks down in a slum district and is hijacked by two bandits. The division between
