Award-winning Films from Chile
Award-winning Films from Chile
TONY MANERO
Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Hector Morales, Ampara Noguera
2008, 98', Color, Chile-Brazil
Spanish with Turkish subtitles
İstanbul International Film Festival, 2009
Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2009
Havana Film Festival, 2009
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago. Each weekend, Raúl Peralta and his friends - a devoted group of dancers - gather in a small bar and act out their favorite scenes from the film. Raúl longs to become a showbiz superstar, and when the national television announces a Tony Manero impersonating contest it seems like he may finally have a shot at living his dreams.
NAVIDAD
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Cast: Manuela Martelli, Alicia Rodríguez, Diego Ruíz
2009, 100', Color, Chile
Spanish with Turkish subtitles
Cannes 2009, Director's Fortnight
It is Christmas Eve in Santiago de Chile. Three teenagers with different problems at home end up spending the holiday together. Alejandro is 17 and comes from a working class family. He is Aurora's boyfriend, an upper class 18 years old girl as beautiful as she is confused. That day, he decides to join her in the search of objects and mementoes from her dead father's house before it is occupied by the new owners. In this place, at the foot of the Andean mountains in the outskirts of Santiago, they begin to quarrel. When the situation seems to reach a dead end something unexpected occurs: they find an intruder in the house.
UNDERGROUND
Director: Marcelo Ferrari
Cast: Francisco Reyes, Paulina Galvezi Hector Noguera, Ernesto Malbran
2003, 112', Color, Chile
Spanish with Turkish subtitles
Miami Latin Film Festival, 2003
The town of Lota, Chile, 1897 is the setting that reflects a history of human and social changes. In the depths of the biggest coal mine in the world, a grand rebellion develops in the heart of a man. While the aristocratic family of Cousiño Goyenechea dreams of progress, the coal miners awaken in their search for dignity.
FUGA
Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Benjamın Vicuna, Gaston Pauls, Francisco Imboden, Maria Izquierdo
2006, 135', Color, Chile
Spanish with Turkish subtitles
Cartagena Film Festival, 2008
Montalbán is a musician trapped in an unfinished opus. As a boy he witnessed the death of his sister who was murdered on top of a piano while composing a melody he will never forget. Now grown up, Montalbán has become an obsessed, mentally disturbed musician, trapped by that same melody. Eventually he is acknowledged as the composer of this avant-garde and now coveted musical piece. Years later, Coppa, an overly ambitious and mediocre musician with no discernable talent attempts to rescue that original symphony, without being aware of the dangers involved in doing so.
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