Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival
1987
Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1996.
Lives in Berlin, Germany, since 1975.
He has a TV programm on chilenian television named "El show de
los libros", he is very proud of his book "Il postino", because it can
be nominated for an Oscar. (1996)
(1973-1989) Exiled in Berlin, Germany, thanks to Peter Lilienthal, with whom he had worked on a film just before the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Lilienthal had been a German exile in Uruguay during the Nazi regime in Germany.