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Lelio’s (2017) made history as the first Chilean film to win the Oscar for Best International Feature. It follows Marina, a transgender waitress and nightclub singer, grieving the death of her older lover. The film is a masterclass in empathy. It doesn’t just ask you to feel sorry for Marina; it makes you feel her rage, her resilience, and her surreal, beautiful dreams. It changed the global conversation about trans representation overnight. The Surreal and the Horror If you think Chilean cinema is all political dramas, think again. The country has a wild, experimental streak.

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Take Pablo Larraín, arguably Chile’s most famous director. Instead of making a standard war film about the coup, he made Tony Manero (2008)—a claustrophobic portrait of a sociopath obsessed with John Travolta in 1978 Santiago. It’s not about politics on the surface, but the air of paranoia and moral rot is suffocating. Larraín followed this up with the masterpiece No (2012), starring Gael García Bernal as an ad man who uses pop culture to defeat a dictator in a referendum. It’s a true story, and it proves that sometimes, a rainbow logo is more powerful than a gun. While Larraín handles the political, Sebastián Lelio handles the human heart. cine chileno