José Luis Torres Leiva

Biography

José Luis Torres Leiva (born 1975, Chile) is a film director, editor, and screenwriter. He has made a considerable number of short films and independent videos. The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (2008) was his first feature film. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), it was nominated for a Tiger Award and won the FIPRESCI Award at IFFR in 2008. Summertime has also been supported by the HBF and had its premiere at the Venice film festival in 2011.

Directed

1. Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes (2019) — Director
2. The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (2008) — Director
3. Women Workers Leaving the Factory (2005) — Director
4. The Winds Know That I'm Coming Back Home (2016) — Director
5. Verano (2011) — Director
6. No Place in Anywhere (2003) — Director
7. When Clouds Hide the Shadow (2025) — Director
8. See and Listen (2014) — Director
9. Nocturnal. Leo Quinteros — Director
10. The Little White Doves (2011) — Director
11. Intermediate — Director
12. The Arm of Sandow — Director
13. Confesiones de un caballo suicida (2002) — Director
14. El mal (2004) — Director
15. No tengo nada que decir (2003) — Director
16. Alicia Dreams of a Lighthouse (2021) — Director
17. The Time that Rests (2007) — Director
18. Trance (2008) — Director
19. Three Weeks Later (2010) — Director
20. Winter: Images of Contemporary Chilean Architecture (2020) — Director
21. Los soñadores (2016) — Director
22. 11 Habitaciones en Antártica (2013) — Director
23. Adios amigo mío, sin gestos, sin palabras (2015) — Director
24. Ana's Dream (2017) — Director
25. What Is This Story and How Does It End? (2013) — Director
26. Copia imperfecta: para Raúl Ruiz (2012) — Director
27. Nada pertenece a la memoria (2017) — Director
28. About Things That Happened to Me (2018) — Director
29. All the Letters that I Never Sent (2017) — Director
30. Los ojos abiertos (2004) — Director
31. Un minuto de silencio (2010) — Director
32. Primer día de invierno (2010) — Director
33. Empezando de cero (2004) — Director
34. Against all the evils of the world (2021) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Como me da la gana II (2016) — Self