Focus: Chile in the Heart
Overview of films
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In Darkness
Three short visions of Chilean paranoia and violence, ranging from the surreal and disturbing to the realist and enlightening. -
Heading Home
Three films about returning to Chile after years in exile – sometimes for real and other times just in one’s mind. -
A los pueblos del mundo
21' | USA | None
A record of Pinochet’s crimes, one of few Chilean exile films made in the US. -
Actas de Marusia
Miguel Littin | 110' | Mexico | None
A film about Chile then and now, looking at the 1925 strike of saltpetre miners. -
Ardiente paciencia / Mit brennender Geduld
Antonio Skármeta | 80' | Portugal | None
Antonio Skármeta’s fiction feature debut about Pablo Neruda and his postman, set in Chile. -
Aufenthaltserlaubnis
Antonio Skármeta | 12' | Germany | None
Antonio Skármeta’s first directorial effort, about himself and others living in exile in Berlin. -
The Battle Of Chile (Part 1): The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie
Patricio Guzmán | 97' | Chile | None
Part 1 of a documentary trilogy chronicling events in Chile between 1972 and September 1973. -
Dialogue d’exilés
Raúl Ruiz | 100' | Chile | None
The first and one of the most equivocal works of Chilean exile cinema. -
En un lugar no muy lejano
Luis Roberto Vera | 22' | Romania | None
Made during a period in-between, the Chilean condition of exile is described in pan-Latin American terms. -
Extranjeros (Främlingar)
Claudio Sapiaín | 56' | Sweden | None
A documentary about Chilean exile life in Sweden following one woman and those she meets. -
Die Fäuste vor der Kanone
Orlando Lübbert, Gastón Ancelovici | 80' | Chile | None
A remembering of the desperate origins of Chile’s labour movement in the early 1900s. -
La femme au foyer
Valeria Sarmiento | 23' | France | None
A woman of right-wing convictions spends her days at home, outside a putsch is imminent.