One of the most striking, haunting debuts of this year is Felipe Gálvez’s The Settlers. The otherworldly western is Chile’s official submission to the 96th Academy Awards. Set around the beginning of the 20th century, it centers on the massacre […]

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(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of The Settlers. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Felipe Gálvez’s directorial debut The Settlers takes us on a journey to early […]

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One of the highlights of New Directors/New Films this year is Manuela Martelli’s directorial debut, Chile ’76. It premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight section and screened at the BFI London Film Festival, where it […]

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It’s refreshing and reassuring to see a documentary where nobody is the villain. Alberdi’s humanist tale is covertly moving, and will leave your soul more stirred than grandma’s Borscht.

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I spoke with Chilean directors and partners Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut on Sunday, April 7, 2019, by phone as part of my remote coverage of the 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, to discuss their marvelous new documentary Los […]

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A lyric ode to the friendship between two canine residents of the oldest skate park in Santiago, Chile, Los Reyes (“The Kings,” also the name of the park) offers sublime filmic joys of a rare kind.

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The river is possessed of inexorable kinetic energy, unstoppable in its progression. It's a perfect visual metaphor for Marina Vidal, the protagonist of the Oscar-nominated (in the Foreign Language Film category) A Fantastic Woman, from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria).

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Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi focuses her camera on a group of septuagenarians who have been meeting for tea for several decades. The film serves as a look into the lives of these women but also serves notice that nothing lasts forever.

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There is such a thing as pitch black comedy, and then there is the work of Chilean director Pablo Larraín, whose warped sense of humor deserves its own adjective. Tar black, maybe?