I hope that there will be some kind of reaction,
that it will be like a mirror of what is happening now
and that people will realize that things are really serious.
That right now Chile is not in a very good situation,
let's say, it's in a difficult situation.
With a right wing that's going up, up, up.
I don't think there will be a coup d'etat because
the military are not going to go for a coup again,
but there will be a revival of the right.
The next government will be right-wing in Chile.
The origin of the film. At the end of 1972
and the beginning of 1973, Raúl was shooting this film.
He was very happy and very interested,
and comrades from the Socialist Party arrived
and said, “Raúl, stop doing that film,
because we need you to make a commercial one.
We need money for the party.”
And they told him to make a film called 'La Palomita Blanca',
which was based on a novel by Enrique Lafourcade,
which had sold 1 million copies.
So they thought that film
would make Raúl to earn money for the party.
Undoubtedly, at the end of the editing of that film,
the coup d'etat came and neither one nor the other was finished.
And 'La Palomita Blanca' premiered 17 years later.
The idea was to play around with the speeches
that were circulating at the time.
Raúl played that game many times
and I thought it was interesting to reproduce it.
Because a good number of the people who left in the '73
have already died.
Sometimes they come to tell us
“Let's see, grandma, tell us what happened”.
But frankly, I don't think we have much of a voice.
I work with Galut Alarcón, who is a much younger man.
I think he must have been born around that time in the year 73,
but he has a political militancy as well.
Then, we could discuss our points of view.
With the material that arrived,
and try to put together something with the material we could save.
In the end it was that. We took material from other places.
Some demonstrations that I put in the film
to give the context of the time,
which were things that Jorge Müller,
the director of photography who is now missing, had filmed.
I made a documentary that is finished
and that will now be presented at the Vienna Biennale
and is called 'Huellas'.
It is a documentary that I made about, precisely,
As I haven't lived in Chile for the last 50 years
because I've lived in exile,
about the traces that I find in Chile,
and a bit about the subject of epigenetics.
And now I want to shoot next year a fiction
that I wanted to do many years ago in Valparaíso,
which is the place where I was born
and is about my childhood.
I'm at the age where I can go back to my childhood.
I was a little scared.
The reaction was impressive.
There were people who came out of the film really moved.
Yes, we talked a little bit with the audience.
That's why I realize
that there were people who were quite impressed.
It premieres on the 29th of September
at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights
and on the same day it premieres, a little later,
at the Chilean Cinematheque.
I don't know what's going to happen now with the new media,
but I think cinema will always be important.
I mean, I hope.
71SSIFF | Kafea - Pedágio
08:45
71SSIFF | Kafea - Beyond the Fog
13:02
71SSIFF | Kafea - Grace
21:08
71SSIFF | Kafea - El juicio
02:46
71SSIFF | Kafea - Les rayons gamma
22:18
71SSIFF | Kafea - The New Boy
18:51
71SSIFF | Kafea - Los delincuentes
24:55
71SSIFF | Kafea - Los impactados
16:26
71SSIFF | Kafea - We Are the Hollow Men
13:25
71SSIFF | Kafea - Bauryna salu
18:28
71SSIFF | Kafea - Contadores
15:35
71SSIFF | Kafea - Single Light
17:24
71SSIFF | Kafea - Alemania
19:30
71SSIFF | Kafea - Camping du lac
15:16
71SSIFF | Kafea - Short Story
26:58
71SSIFF | Kafea - Aunque es de noche
21:22