A los pueblos del mundo
A record of Pinochet's crimes, one of few Chilean exile films made in the US.
21'
United States
IFFR 2024
Three stories about Chilean exiles in Quebec. The first, Rodrigo Gonzáles Rojas's J'explique certaines choses, is named after a poem by Pablo Neruda: Y una mañana todo estaba ardiendo / y una mañana las hogueras / salían de la tierra / devorando seres, / y desde entonces fuego, / pólvora desde entonces, / y desde entonces sangre // Bandidos con aviones y con moros, / bandidos con sortijas y duquesas, / bandidos con frailes negros bendiciendo / venían por el cielo a matar niños, / y por las calles la sangre de los niños / corría simplemente, como sangre de niños.
González Rojas shows discussions and fetes among the more intellectual set of exiles – a certain bleakness pervades the scenes.
The second, Marilú Mallet's cinéma vérité-ish Lentement, follows Lucía through her daily routines: she meets friends, works as a teacher, shops, cooks and watches TV. Pinochet is interviewed and denies the use of torture by his regime. In the end Lucia also accepts to be interviewed – the truth must be told.
The third and final story, Jorge Fajardo's Jours de fer, shows Pablo's first day at his new job working in a steel mill, at night he has dark dreams remembering his incarceration and torture in Chile.
– Olaf Möller
Jorge Fajardo, Rodrigo Gonzáles, Marilú Mallet
IFFR 2024
Programme IFFR 2024
After the coup against the democratically elected government of Chile and the murder of the nation’s president, Salvador Allende, on September 11th 1973, masses of Chileans fled the country for unknown futures far away. In 1974, spearheaded by works like Sergio Castilla’s Pinochet: fascista, asesino, traidor, agente del imperialismo and Raúl Ruiz’s Dialogue d’exilés, a historically unique phenomenon started to take shape: a Chilean cinema in exile. The vast majority of Chile’s film culture had left and were now living spread across different nations, this included already established auteurs like Patricio Guzmán (The Battle Of Chile (Part 1): The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie), Miguel Littin (Actas de Marusia) and Helvio Soto (La triple muerte del tercer personaje) as well as film students like Sebastián Alarcón (Night Over Chile), Leo Mendoza (Reír o no reír) or Luis Mora (Night of the Captain). Remarkably enough, the resulting production forms a coherent whole: it continues the Chilean cinema of the Unidad Popular, and protests against the fascism at home – while often presenting Chile as but an example for the forms of oppression and terrorism found all over the world. In an age where ever more filmmakers are forced into exile and whole communities are violently displaced, IFFR presents a grand overview of the phenomenon on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. We’ll present some twenty-five features and shorts covering the first decade of production in exile, mixing established classics with shorts and television works hardly seen since their original presentation.
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