A los pueblos del mundo
A record of Pinochet's crimes, one of few Chilean exile films made in the US.
21'
United States
IFFR 2024
After the coup against the democratically elected government of Chile and the murder of the nation’s president, Salvador Allende, on September 11th 1973, masses of Chileans fled the country for unknown futures far away. In 1974, spearheaded by works like Sergio Castilla’s Pinochet: fascista, asesino, traidor, agente del imperialismo and Raúl Ruiz’s Dialogue d’exilés, a historically unique phenomenon started to take shape: a Chilean cinema in exile. The vast majority of Chile’s film culture had left and were now living spread across different nations, this included already established auteurs like Patricio Guzmán (The Battle Of Chile (Part 1): The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie), Miguel Littin (Actas de Marusia) and Helvio Soto (La triple muerte del tercer personaje) as well as film students like Sebastián Alarcón (Night Over Chile), Leo Mendoza (Reír o no reír) or Luis Mora (Night of the Captain). Remarkably enough, the resulting production forms a coherent whole: it continues the Chilean cinema of the Unidad Popular, and protests against the fascism at home – while often presenting Chile as but an example for the forms of oppression and terrorism found all over the world. In an age where ever more filmmakers are forced into exile and whole communities are violently displaced, IFFR presents a grand overview of the phenomenon on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. We’ll present some twenty-five features and shorts covering the first decade of production in exile, mixing established classics with shorts and television works hardly seen since their original presentation.
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A record of Pinochet's crimes, one of few Chilean exile films made in the US.
21'
United States
IFFR 2024
A film about Chile then and now, looking at the 1925 strike of saltpetre miners.
110'
Mexico
IFFR 2024
Antonio Skármeta’s fiction feature debut about Pablo Neruda and his postman, set in Chile.
80'
West Germany
IFFR 2024
Antonio Skármeta's first directorial effort, about himself and others living in exile in Berlin.
12'
Germany
IFFR 2024
Part 1 of a documentary trilogy chronicling events in Chile between 1972 and September 1973.
97'
Chile
IFFR 2024
The first and one of the most equivocal works of Chilean exile cinema.
100'
Chile
IFFR 2024
Made during a period in-between, the Chilean condition of exile is described in pan-Latin American terms.
22'
Romania
IFFR 2024
A documentary about Chilean exile life in Sweden following one woman and those she meets.
56'
Sweden
IFFR 2024
A remembering of the desperate origins of Chile’s labour movement in the early 1900s.
80'
West Germany
IFFR 2024
A woman of right-wing convictions spends her days at home, outside a putsch is imminent.
23'
France
IFFR 2024
After leaving Chile, Angelina Vázquez weaves a tapestry of sights and voices resisting the dictatorship.
57'
Chile
IFFR 2024
A witty yet full frontal agitprop style work drawing parallels between dictators Hitler and Pinochet.
2'
DDR
IFFR 2024
Three stories about Chilean exiles living in Quebec.
99'
Canada
IFFR 2024
What does home mean when everything feels in-between and transient?
50'
Canada
IFFR 2024
Whilst on leave in England, an Argentinian captain’s outlook on life and politics is changed.
38'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2024
In an early vision of Chile post-coup, a politically disinterested architect is arrested and imprisoned.
90'
Chile
IFFR 2024
The story of Miguel Enríquez, founder of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria.
33'
Cuba
IFFR 2024
Agitprop-documentary about political oppression and torture in Chile.
11'
Cuba
IFFR 2024
A short agitprop piece made mainly from children's drawings.
4'
Sweden
IFFR 2024
One of the last exile films to have begun production in Chile.
90'
Venezuela
IFFR 2024
Gonçalves secretly re-entered Chile to film this exposé on the privatisation of education under Pinochet.
17'
Chile
IFFR 2024
A visually luscious and stunning parable based on Alejo Carpentier’s eponymous novel.
164'
Mexico
IFFR 2024
A disquieting short where a camera zooms in on three laughing faces sitting side-by-side.
4'
Chile
IFFR 2024
A brief overview of the Unidad Popular's achievements that were quashed by the Pinochet regime.
6'
DDR
IFFR 2024
An enigmatic film from one of the most famous Chilean directors to go into exile.
99'
Spain
IFFR 2024
Angelina Vázquez muses on her cultural identity as she takes stock of the exile situation.
28'
Finland
IFFR 2024
Three refugees join forces as they attempt to leave Chile via the Andes.
79'
DDR
IFFR 2024
A dialogue between two generations of exiles: one remembers, one discovers the past through documents.
84'
Chile
IFFR 2024