2023-05-27 18:32:14
the chilean movie the settlers received this Saturday the FIPRESCI prize, from international critics, being recognized as the best work of the category a certain look. The award was also given to Levanteby Brazilian Lillah Halla for being the best film in the parallel sections at Cannes.
the settlerswhich features actors Alfredo Castro, Marcelo Alonso, Benjamín Westfall, Camilo Arancibia, Mishell Guaña and more, It is the debut of its director Felipe Gálvez and is set in the 20th century, located in Patagonia.
The story centers on a wealthy estanciero -played by Castro- who seeks to open a route for his sheep to the Atlantic. Allí, a mestizo Chilean becomes an unwitting accomplice in a violent hunt for indigenous people. The years go by and the film shows how borders emerge at the end of the world and how countries begin to write their own stories.
The Chilean film won the award “for its skilful narration, which sheds light on the socio-political conflicts of the history of the colonization of Latin America too often silenced, and his precise approach to the subject due to the strength and precision of his direction”, the ruling specifies.
Gálvez showed EFE his happiness after receiving an award that is the first for a Chilean film in the history of Cannes, in addition to highlighting that His film is “difficult, of a particular beauty, but rude.”
A film that generates “controversy and debate”, so I saw it difficult to get an award in this 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
the settlerswhich will be released this year in Chile and is already distributed in France and Argentina, is important because “brings to light the genocide of an indigenous people” that had been hidden in the history of his country.
Gálvez’s debut film also marks the history of Chilean cinema, since this It is the first time that a Chilean film has won the Fipresci Award at the Cannes Film Festival.. Other award-winning films in this category have been, for example, The Lighthouse, Drive My Car, Apocalypse Now y Blue is the Warmest Color.
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