David Belmar (Chile, 1984) is a cinematographer and filmmaker. His first feature film The Origin of Heaven, premiered at the 2015 Valdivia IFF. He is developing his next film, Rebelde, and works between Chile and Argentina.
EL CASTILLO brings the viewer inside a prison for teenagers from the Mapuche countryside, in southern Chile. Every night, collective nightmares attack the teenagers – leading to rumors from the elders in the community that the prison is built upon an ancestral Mapuche cemetery.