the cultural field formed around cinema has been built in several dimen-sions: film production, markets, public policies, audiences, cultural and historical contexts and film studies and its theory. this one has had in chile a fragmented, uneven and not sufficiently established ？or legitimated development. this paper aims to provide an overview of film studies in chile, focusing on three important áreas (institutions, theories and problems and, by last, criticism) to state, from this partial ？review？, a set of questions regarding the need to consolidate these studies, their future and their ability to dialogue with other áreas of cinema.
