The 15-minute film about the life of Ingrid Olderock — a particularly cruel agent of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet — took three years to make. Ingrid Olderock, here depicted as a doll with ...

For the second time in history, Chile is a contender for an Oscar in short film animation. Bestia, directed by Hugo Covarrubias and produced by Tevo Diaz, uses stop-motion animation to portray the ...

This post was updated March 27 at 10:05 p.m. A porcelain shell can’t contain a beast. In “Bestia,” a short film co-written by Martín Erazo and director Hugo Covarrubias, the sinister violence of the ...

Nominated for this year's Oscars, Chilean short film "Bestia" (Beast) uses animation, an art form more often associated with children's movies, to deal with a macabre topic: the sexual torture of ...