Release Date

07 May, 2026

Runtime

00:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This documentary, made entirely of archival footage shot mainly by amateurs, revisits 50 years of Chilean history. A fascinating lesson in memory, this personal montage adopts a popular, even fringe, perspective to help write a more complete national memory. As the filmmaker asserts in her narration, there’s the history we’re told, the history we live, and the history we tell ourselves. Between the coup d’état of September 11, 1973, and the recent double failure of the new constitution project, this film shows that the people of Chile have long oscillated between excitement and disappointment, accumulating shattered hopes. Rejecting the pessimism that would trap us in collective immobility, Karin Cuyul instead draws on the past to ask how we can continue to dream of the necessary social and political changes.

Original Title

La vida que vendrá

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Actors

Crew

Karin Cuyul

José Cardenas Lorca

Karin Cuyul

Federico Atehortúa Arteaga

Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga

Josephine Schroeder

Miguel Yilales

Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga

Josephine Schroeder

Diana Martínez

Darío Órdenes Duarte

Matías Reyes