Directed by Manuela Martelli / 2022

In this much-awarded movie, all seems fine in the comfortable Chilean bourgeois world of Carmen (played by Aline Kuppenheim) and her family. She has a summer house she’s renovating, and performs charitable works through her church. But when the family priest asks her to take care of an injured young man he has been sheltering in secret, Carmen is unwittingly drawn into the world of Chilean politics—with potentially disastrous consequences for her family.

Building convincingly from quiet character study to gripping Hitchcockian thriller, Chile ’76 explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political realities during the early days of the Pinochet dictatorship. In Spanish with English subtitles. (95 minutes)

“A period thriller of beguiling power, energized by its portrait of one woman’s heroism.” —Nick Schager, The Daily Beast