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Chilean Movies

By Russ Slater 25 January, 2018

After Chile received its first nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2012 for Pablo Larraín’s No, it’s... Read Article

By Daniel Díaz 24 May, 2016

I write this having just about recovered from Cannes, where Camaleón [of which I am the producer] screened at the Marché du... Read Article

By Russ Slater 12 May, 2016

Pablo Larraín’s latest film, Neruda, captures just over a year of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s life. Set from 1946-48... Read Article

By Stephanie Kennedy 21 March, 2016

An ocean laps the beach relentlessly like time trapped in a clock. A yellow-bricked house sits on top of the... Read Article

By Lina Samoili 16 March, 2016

“The Indians of Patagonia believed that souls didn’t die and that they could live again as stars.” Five years after... Read Article

“There was something very interesting and subversive about telling the story from the point of view of the advertising executive... Read Article

By Joanna Blyth 22 January, 2013

A tragic portrait of a talented yet troubled woman, Violeta Went to Heaven, from Chilean director Andrés Wood (Historias De... Read Article

By Ed Hart 17 December, 2012

The Battle of Chile, subtitled La Lucha De Un Pueblo Sin Armas (The Fight Of An Unarmed People) by Chilean... Read Article

By Leo Nikolaidis 26 September, 2011

Pablo Larraín’s vision of Santiago, Chile in 1973 looks every bit as drab as Britain from the same time. The... Read Article

By Russ Slater 20 September, 2011

One of the biggest underground smashes of recent years in Chile is currently streaming online for all to see. Che... Read Article

By Sarah Coxhill 25 October, 2010

With the current issues in Chile, for the Mapuche people this is a timely documentary, and was clearly made before... Read Article