Chile’s European Film Market Highlights

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Key Chilean projects being moved at this year’s European Film Market:AlisDirectors: Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás van HemelryckCasatarántula produced this Chile-Colombia-Romania doc along with Pantalla Cines and Defilm.

Produced by Alexandra Galvis and Radu Stancu, it world premieres at Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar. The Bogota, Colombia-set doc follows 10 teens at a public boarding school in a therapy exercise where they construct a narrative around a make-believe classmate dubbed Alis.International sales: Latido FilmsCazadora Director: Martín DuplaquetA thriller set in a dystopian future in which a mother and her teen, on a hunting trip in the mountains, have a chance encounter with a woman that triggers some bizarre changes, merging the personalities of the two women.

The film is penned by Valeria Hofmann and Antonio Luco, produced by Francisca Barraza of Funky Films with Platforma Post. International sales: House of FilmThe Cow Who Sang a Song into the FutureDirector: Francisca AlegríaAn expansion of the themes in her Sundance-winning short, “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye,” Alegría’s feature debut world-premiered at Sundance 2022 in the World Cinema section.

Mia Maestro plays Magdalena, whose return from the dead is a catalyst for change in her troubled family, played by Leonor Varela and Alfredo Castro.International sales: The Match FactoryImmersion Director: Nicolás PostiglioneCo-written with filmmakers Moises Sepúlveda (“The Illiterate”) and Agustín Toscano (“The Snatch Thief”), Postiglione’s debut feature stars Alfredo Castro as the patriarch of a family whose lakeside holiday goes awry.