Running August 18 -25, the Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) celebrates its 20th edition in tandem with its slightly younger industry section, Sanfic Industria, now on its 13th year, at a time of reassuring growth trends in Chile and Latin America’s audiovisual industries.

As a platform aiming to provide support and guidance to Ibero-American filmmakers, Sanfic Industria, run by festival co-founder Gabriela Sandoval, has grown apace with the latest advances in the entertainment world.

Now in its third year, Sanfic Xr, a sidebar dedicated to virtual, augmented and mixed reality experiences, allows attendees to explore cutting-edge extended reality projects from Chile, international premieres and works from national and Iberoamerican Xr labs. This edition expands its content and venues, now including tech center Crtic alongside cultural center Matucana 100.

Among the projects is “Cerati Xr,” an augmented reality journey through surreal landscapes where songs like “Lisa,” “Corazón Delator” and “Raíz” come alive in hypnotic visuals,...