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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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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