SANTA FE STREET
Calle Santa Fe
Synopsis
October 5, 1974: In the suburbs of Santiago, pregnant Carmen is badly injured and her partner Miguel, head of the resistance against Pinochet’s dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins a journey into the memories of the defeated…
Synopsis
October 5, 1974: In the suburbs of Santiago, pregnant Carmen is badly injured and her partner Miguel, head of the resistance against Pinochet’s dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins a journey into the memories of the defeated…
Our take
Carmen Castillo’s multilayered essay film explores her exile in France as a political asylum during Pinochet’s dictatorship, as well as the personal and historical events that preceded her departure. An investigation of the past through memory, reunions, archive footage, and constant interrogations.