Key Chilean Titles at This Year’s Cannes Market and Festival
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente The Eternal Memory Chile, U.S. DIRECTOR: Maite Alberdi Alberdi’s follow-up to Oscar- nominated “The Mole Agent” snagged Sundance’s top doc award and a worldwide distribution deal with MTV at Sundance.
Co-produced by Fabula, it centers on a loving elderly couple struggling with the man’s fading memory. The Cardinal (“El Cardenal”) Chile, Argentina, Brazil DIRECTOR: Benjamín Ávila Drama in development with Argentina’s Magma Cine, Brazil’s Gullane and Storyboard Media turns on a cardinal who struggles to accept the reality of Augusto Pinochet’s vicious dictatorship in the early 1970s. El Conde Chile, U.S.
DIRECTOR: Pablo Larrain Larrain’s much-anticipated dark comedy turns on reviled Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who died in 2006 but in this film, is rather an aging vampire.
After some 250 years, he’s ready to pack it in. Stars Chile’s Alfredo Castro. Horizonte Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Luxembourg DIRECTOR: Cesar Augusto Acevedo Chile’s Paulina Garcia stars in Colombian Acevedo’s follow-up to Cannes-winning “Land and Shade.” Film follows Basilio and his mother, who search for his father through a wartorn land of the dead. The House (“La Casa”) Chile, Germany DIRECTOR: Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff Docu executive produced by Maite Alberdi and Alexandra Galvis (“My Imaginary Country”) centers on Santiago as it’s hit by social protests and a pandemic-induced lockdown.
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