Chile '76

Chile '76 (original title 1976), co-written and directed by Manuela Martelli with Alejandra Moffat as her feature debut, had its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section at Cannes on May 26, 2022, and opened in Chile on October 20, 2022. The film follows an upper middle class housewife during the Pinochet regime who, drawing on past Red Cross training, agrees to secretly treat a wounded young resistance fighter targeted by the regime. The film won the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the Havana Film Festival. Director Martelli had previously acted in Machuca (2004) alongside Aline Küppenheim, this film's lead, winning Best Actress at the Viña del Mar Festival for that earlier performance. Who it's for: anyone curious about an actress's directorial debut, reuniting with an actress from a film she'd previously starred in, a Pinochet era drama that premiered at Cannes. Who it's not for: viewers wanting a film focused directly on the resistance movement, since this centers on a housewife's routine upended by events around her.