Chilean
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Guest Contributor Kareem Tabsch reviews ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo: A Refuge at the End of the World ‘
Northern Chile is a place that seems to exist outside of time and outside of humanity. Its desert landscape — arid and stripped of all vegetation — evokes the surface of another planet more than any inhabited corner of the Earth. And yet it is precisely in this extreme solitude that men have found their…
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The Strong Ones : a powerful queer Chilean love story
For his debut feature film Chilean writer/director Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo adapted his own short film San Cristabel which won the prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2015. It is a beautifully executed queer love story that is a near perfect as it could be. Lucas (Samuel González) has just won a scholarship to…
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Forgotten Roads : a brilliant new queer Chilean drama
Despite all the problems in the world, 2020 has seen a remarkable crop of such excellent queer debut feature films from first time directors/writers. Forgotten Roads from Chilean filmmaker Nicol Ruiz Benavides is right up there amongst them. Kudos for both his script and his visual interpretation but especially for the sublimely nuanced performance…
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Cola De Mono
It’s an unbearably hot Santiago Christmas Eve 1986 in those pre-tech days before cellphones were invented and when families still had to talk to each other. However Borja (Cristóbal Rodríguez-Costabal) ‘s family don’t. Well not very much. He’s a precocious teenager about to turn 17 and obsessed with movies especially the stack of obscure…
