Preeminent Spanish arthouse sales outfit Bendita Film Sales (“Memories of a Burning Body”) has acquired worldwide rights to the second offbeat feature from Chilean auteurs Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, “The Hyperboreans” (“Los Hiperbóreos”), which bows at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight program, running May 15-25.
“We’re excited to join forces with Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, visionary filmmakers renowned for their distinct perspective and captivating universe. Their body of work has long enthralled and inspired us, making this collaboration a truly special opportunity,” Luis Renart, CEO, sales & acquisitions at Bendita Film Sales, told Variety.
“The Hyperboreans encompasses a daring fusion of live-action and stop motion, speculative fiction and fabulated biography, that takes audiences on a mesmerizing journey through realms both familiar and fantastical, exploring the haunting echoes of history and the boundless potential of the human psyche. We’re excited to share this exceptional work with audiences worldwide,” he added,...
“We’re excited to join forces with Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, visionary filmmakers renowned for their distinct perspective and captivating universe. Their body of work has long enthralled and inspired us, making this collaboration a truly special opportunity,” Luis Renart, CEO, sales & acquisitions at Bendita Film Sales, told Variety.
“The Hyperboreans encompasses a daring fusion of live-action and stop motion, speculative fiction and fabulated biography, that takes audiences on a mesmerizing journey through realms both familiar and fantastical, exploring the haunting echoes of history and the boundless potential of the human psyche. We’re excited to share this exceptional work with audiences worldwide,” he added,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
A long-retired Red Cross nurse whose only real plans for the winter of 1976 involve redesigning the inside of her family’s beach house and planning her granddaughter’s seven birthday party, Carmen — played by the elegantly unraveling Aline Kuppenheim — spends her days fussing around with the furniture and waiting for her doctor husband to return from Santiago on the weekend, oblivious to the discordant electric daggers of the Mariá Portugal score that cuts a hole into the soundscape around her. She dreams of a living room that’s soaked in the kiss-pink shade of a Venetian sunset, and at one point is so entranced by a vat of swirling paint that she hardly seems to hear the screams of a young leftist as they’re disappeared off a nearby street in broad daylight.
But Carmen is not quite as callous as her Westchester chic wardrobe might suggest. The empathy that...
But Carmen is not quite as callous as her Westchester chic wardrobe might suggest. The empathy that...
- 5/3/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It’s said that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you, but in the case of Carmen (Aline Küppenheim), the protagonist of Manuela Martelli’s Chile ’76, paranoia may be a self-fulfilling prophesy. After all, as its title indicates, the film is set during Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing military dictatorship, three years after the coup that toppled Salvador Allende’s democratically elected left‐wing Popular Unity Government.
Carmen is a young grandmother, wife of a hospital administrator (Alejandro Goic), and former Red Cross nurse. She lives a complacent bourgeois life, insulated from anti-communist suspicion but not from her own neuroses, which she self-medicates with a steady intake of pills, alcohol, and cigarettes. When she and her family pay a visit to their seaside vacation house, the local priest, Father Sanchez (Hugo Medina), recruits her to secretly nurse a communist insurgent, Elías (Nicolás Sepúlveda...
Carmen is a young grandmother, wife of a hospital administrator (Alejandro Goic), and former Red Cross nurse. She lives a complacent bourgeois life, insulated from anti-communist suspicion but not from her own neuroses, which she self-medicates with a steady intake of pills, alcohol, and cigarettes. When she and her family pay a visit to their seaside vacation house, the local priest, Father Sanchez (Hugo Medina), recruits her to secretly nurse a communist insurgent, Elías (Nicolás Sepúlveda...
- 5/1/2023
- by William Repass
- Slant Magazine
To title your film after a year, as actor-turned-filmmaker Manuela Martelli does, is a bold statement. For Chileans, after all, “1976” (renamed “Chile ’76” for North American markets) will conjure up a host of reactions tied to what was one of the bloodiest years of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. And yet this dazzling debut feature is grounded not in the resistance movement against Pinochet, nor on the political maneuvring that led to thousands having been disappeared. It focuses instead on a housewife’s day-to-day routine, as she slowly finds her insular world rocked by events that soon spiral out of her control. Following a successful festival run beginning at Cannes last year, the film will be released Stateside by Kino Lorber from May 5.
Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads an intentionally sheltered life. When we first meet her she’s most concerned with getting the right shade of pink for the summer house renovation...
Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads an intentionally sheltered life. When we first meet her she’s most concerned with getting the right shade of pink for the summer house renovation...
- 4/18/2023
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Camila José Donoso (“Naomi Campbel”) is gearing up to shoot her fourth pic, “Antitropical,” with Roberto Doveris’ Niña Niño Films producing. The docu-fiction hybrid will be filmed much like a documentary over various months, starting late October, that will stretch into the next year. It’s also received some additional support from Chile’s Audiovisual Production Fund.
At the 18th Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic), Niña Niño Films is screening docu “Me gustaría que vivieras mi juventud de nuevo” (“I’d Like You to Live My Youth Again”), Nicolás Guzmán’s third film, co-produced with Francisca Soto and renowned filmmaker Alicia Scherson (“Il Futuro”).
As in her previous films, Donoso plays on the limits between fiction and documentary. “It is a project that I began to develop when I was researching the world of café brothels [dubbed cafes con pierna in Chile] for my first film, almost 10 years ago,” said Donoso. “There I met two...
At the 18th Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic), Niña Niño Films is screening docu “Me gustaría que vivieras mi juventud de nuevo” (“I’d Like You to Live My Youth Again”), Nicolás Guzmán’s third film, co-produced with Francisca Soto and renowned filmmaker Alicia Scherson (“Il Futuro”).
As in her previous films, Donoso plays on the limits between fiction and documentary. “It is a project that I began to develop when I was researching the world of café brothels [dubbed cafes con pierna in Chile] for my first film, almost 10 years ago,” said Donoso. “There I met two...
- 8/16/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Distributor plans theatrical release next winter.
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights from Luxbox Films to Manuela Martelli’s Chilean drama and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection 1976, which has been renamed Chile 1976.
‘1976’: Cannes Review
Actor Martelli’s directorial debut takes place in the early years of the Augusto Pinochet regime as an upper middle-class woman gets drawn into the political opposition when she is asked by the family priest to take care of an injured man who is in hiding.
Aline Kuppenheim stars alongside Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina and Alejandro Goic and acted with Martelli in Machuca. Martelli co-wrote the screenplay with Alejandra Moffat.
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights from Luxbox Films to Manuela Martelli’s Chilean drama and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection 1976, which has been renamed Chile 1976.
‘1976’: Cannes Review
Actor Martelli’s directorial debut takes place in the early years of the Augusto Pinochet regime as an upper middle-class woman gets drawn into the political opposition when she is asked by the family priest to take care of an injured man who is in hiding.
Aline Kuppenheim stars alongside Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina and Alejandro Goic and acted with Martelli in Machuca. Martelli co-wrote the screenplay with Alejandra Moffat.
- 6/15/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Chilean documentary continues to captivate. Four projects have been selected to participate in the Docs-In-Progress Showcase Chile at Cannes Docs 2022, the documentary section of the Marché du Film at the Cannes Festival: ‘Notes for a Film’, ‘The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine’, ‘Malqueridas’ and ‘Asteroid 2518’.
This is the third time Chiledoc is showcasing films. It is scheduled for May 23 within the framework of Cannes Docs, which takes place from May 17 to 25.
The return of Patricio Guzmán to the Cannes Film Festival
In addition, one of the most important Chilean documentarians, Patricio Guzmán, will have the world premiere of his latest film a French-Chilean coproduction, My Imaginary Country/ Mi país imaginario, in the Special Screenings section of the Cannes Festival. (Isa is Pyramide).
Produced by Alexandra Galvis, My Imaginary Country. Protests exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities. The doc goes from the social explosion to the formation of the constituent assembly and exclusively includes testimonies from female voices such as the journalist Mónica González, the feminist collective Las Tesis, the Mapuche constituent Elisa Loncón, the writer and actress Nona Fernández, the photographer Nicole Kramm and the political scientist Claudia Heiss, among many others.
My Imaginary Country will premiere in Special Screenings, a section that is part of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, in which The Mountain Range of Dreams screened in 2019 and which won the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary.
My Imaginary Country/ Mi país imaginario by Patricio Guzmán
“October 2019, an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Chile had recovered its memory. The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.”
Docs-In-Progress Showcase Chile:
Notes for a Film, directed by Ignacio Agüero is a Chilean-French co-production, and is produced by Tehani Staiger, Viviana Erpel, Amalric de Pontcharra and Elisa Sepúlveda.
This feature film, based on 10 years in the Araucanía 1889–1899, a book with the memoirs of the young Belgian engineer Gustave Verniory, draws a parallel between the present and the past, slipping between the human landscape and the geographical landscape, to reveal the deep essence of the Araucanian territory.
The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine, directed by Alfredo Pourailly and produced alongside Francisco Hervé portrays Toto, the last gold miner of his kind in remote Tierra del Fuego, who is 62 years old and whose body is sick. His son Jorge designs a machine that should relieve the exhausting work.
Malqueridas, directed by Tana Gilbert and produced by Paola Castillo, narrates the experiences of motherhood lived by women in prison, filmed clandestinely with prohibited cell phones. The project participated in the Visions du Réel Pitch in 2021, earning the opportunity to participate in the German festival Dok Leipzig and its market, Dok Co-Pro Market 2021.
In Asteriode 2518, directed by Amanda Rutllant, who produced it with Constanza Luzoro, a filmmaker becomes obsessed with an asteroid that bears her last name and with the lost story of her great-grandfather, a Chilean scientist who pioneered world astronomy in the 1950s and dreamed of building the largest observatory in the Southern Hemisphere as his legacy in the Atacama desert. As she discovers the darker sides of herself, Amanda defies her family’s legacy, as she confronts an autoimmune disease that begins to attack her body.
The prestigious North American weekly Variety, dedicated to cinema and culture, spoke with Paula Ossandón, director of Chiledoc, about the sample of selected projects at Cannes Docs:
“They stand out for their surprising characters, sensitive and imaginative stories, some very loaded with a good dose of humor”, and she revealed the growing attention to Chilean documentaries in the world.
In addition Directors’ Fortnight is screening 1976, directed by Manuela Martelli and Alejandra Moffat, a coproduction of Chile, Argentina and Qatar, being sold internationally by Luxbox. Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
This is the third time Chiledoc is showcasing films. It is scheduled for May 23 within the framework of Cannes Docs, which takes place from May 17 to 25.
The return of Patricio Guzmán to the Cannes Film Festival
In addition, one of the most important Chilean documentarians, Patricio Guzmán, will have the world premiere of his latest film a French-Chilean coproduction, My Imaginary Country/ Mi país imaginario, in the Special Screenings section of the Cannes Festival. (Isa is Pyramide).
Produced by Alexandra Galvis, My Imaginary Country. Protests exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities. The doc goes from the social explosion to the formation of the constituent assembly and exclusively includes testimonies from female voices such as the journalist Mónica González, the feminist collective Las Tesis, the Mapuche constituent Elisa Loncón, the writer and actress Nona Fernández, the photographer Nicole Kramm and the political scientist Claudia Heiss, among many others.
My Imaginary Country will premiere in Special Screenings, a section that is part of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, in which The Mountain Range of Dreams screened in 2019 and which won the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary.
My Imaginary Country/ Mi país imaginario by Patricio Guzmán
“October 2019, an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Chile had recovered its memory. The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.”
Docs-In-Progress Showcase Chile:
Notes for a Film, directed by Ignacio Agüero is a Chilean-French co-production, and is produced by Tehani Staiger, Viviana Erpel, Amalric de Pontcharra and Elisa Sepúlveda.
This feature film, based on 10 years in the Araucanía 1889–1899, a book with the memoirs of the young Belgian engineer Gustave Verniory, draws a parallel between the present and the past, slipping between the human landscape and the geographical landscape, to reveal the deep essence of the Araucanian territory.
The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine, directed by Alfredo Pourailly and produced alongside Francisco Hervé portrays Toto, the last gold miner of his kind in remote Tierra del Fuego, who is 62 years old and whose body is sick. His son Jorge designs a machine that should relieve the exhausting work.
Malqueridas, directed by Tana Gilbert and produced by Paola Castillo, narrates the experiences of motherhood lived by women in prison, filmed clandestinely with prohibited cell phones. The project participated in the Visions du Réel Pitch in 2021, earning the opportunity to participate in the German festival Dok Leipzig and its market, Dok Co-Pro Market 2021.
In Asteriode 2518, directed by Amanda Rutllant, who produced it with Constanza Luzoro, a filmmaker becomes obsessed with an asteroid that bears her last name and with the lost story of her great-grandfather, a Chilean scientist who pioneered world astronomy in the 1950s and dreamed of building the largest observatory in the Southern Hemisphere as his legacy in the Atacama desert. As she discovers the darker sides of herself, Amanda defies her family’s legacy, as she confronts an autoimmune disease that begins to attack her body.
The prestigious North American weekly Variety, dedicated to cinema and culture, spoke with Paula Ossandón, director of Chiledoc, about the sample of selected projects at Cannes Docs:
“They stand out for their surprising characters, sensitive and imaginative stories, some very loaded with a good dose of humor”, and she revealed the growing attention to Chilean documentaries in the world.
In addition Directors’ Fortnight is screening 1976, directed by Manuela Martelli and Alejandra Moffat, a coproduction of Chile, Argentina and Qatar, being sold internationally by Luxbox. Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
- 5/8/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Prestige French distribution house Dulac Distribution has closed rights to France on “1976,” one of the most awaited of films to come out of Chile this year, which will world premiere next month at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The buzzed up title represents the first feature from young Chilean actor-turned-director Manuela Martelli, star of Andrés Wood’s “Machuca” and Alicia Scherson’s “Il Futuro.”
Worldwide sales rights on “1976” are represented by Paris-based Luxbox, adding to its lengthening list of high profile pick-ups from Latin America which include Nathalie Alvarez Mesén’s “Clara Sola,” Alejandra Márquez’s “The Good Girls,” Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses” and Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo.”
The acquisition in a key territory for non English-language art films comes just weeks after “1976” walked off with three of the biggest awards at the Toulouse Latin American Festival’s Films in Progress, including the pix-in-post competition’s Grand Prix and Cine Plus...
The buzzed up title represents the first feature from young Chilean actor-turned-director Manuela Martelli, star of Andrés Wood’s “Machuca” and Alicia Scherson’s “Il Futuro.”
Worldwide sales rights on “1976” are represented by Paris-based Luxbox, adding to its lengthening list of high profile pick-ups from Latin America which include Nathalie Alvarez Mesén’s “Clara Sola,” Alejandra Márquez’s “The Good Girls,” Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses” and Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo.”
The acquisition in a key territory for non English-language art films comes just weeks after “1976” walked off with three of the biggest awards at the Toulouse Latin American Festival’s Films in Progress, including the pix-in-post competition’s Grand Prix and Cine Plus...
- 4/25/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
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