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“The Horror Seeps Through the Cracks”

Set during the harshest period of the Pinochet Dictatorship, ‘1976’ (2022) is an intelligent and moving study of a well-to-do housewife, Carmen, who, after being asked to care for a wounded activist, finds her life changing and…

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1976 (2022) Dir. Manuela Martelli

“Be careful in the future, you are not always that lucky!” Manuela Martelli's ‘1976’ (2022), winner of the ‘First Feature’ Category at the BFI London Film Festival 2022, studies how the pressures of a repressive regime…

Postcard From...

Chile: Why Didn't This Happen Before

Dear friends, our country received so much help from you in its struggle to regain democracy, that I decided to send you this mini-report. After all, what are friends for?

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DISOBEDIENCE (2018) Forbidden love is never easy, let alone in a closed religious community.

When photographer Ronit Krushka returns from New York to London after many years, for her father’s funeral, a forbidden love that had been the cause of her departure is re-ignited with powerful consequences.

City Guides

A Guide to Santiago de Chile: Avocados, the Andes and Coffee with legs

I have finally found the perfect spot, on the second story patio of Café Literario, overlooking Parque Bustamente, one of Santiago de Chile's many hidden green gems, where one can momentarily escape the relentless city…