Movies: Marilú Mallet

In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, r...

Ten-year-old Sébastiana recounts the history and legends and explains the local customs of Andahuaylillas, Peru, a small village located high in the Andes. Their simpler way of life has persisted for over three centuries, undisturbed by modern societ...

Two women from Montreal, from very different backgrounds, become great friends. Celeste, of Portuguese origin, sacrifices the love of her family to make her fortune in America. Catherine, single, dedicates herself completely to her double career as a...

The filmmaker adapts "De mémoire incomplète", one of her own short stories, into a film that portrays the encounter of two people wounded by the past and by history, over the course of a day and a night on a street in Montreal. Past, present, imagina...

No hay olvido, composed of three parts, each directed by a young Chilean filmmaker forced to flee his country, is about the difficult condition of exiles in a specific political and social context, in this case, Quebec. The first part, entitled J'exp...

Documentary on the egalitarian religious community of Solentiname in Nicaragua, with an extensive intevew with its founder, the poet Ernesto Cardenal. The film describes the aim of the Solentiname community and explains, through a thoroug interview, ...

Santiago, Chile. September 11, 1973. A military dictatorship seizes power and wields it for 17 years. Thousands of men disappear. "Donde estan? (Where are they?)," ask the women, their partners in la cueca, the traditional Chilean courtship dance. Su...

The painter María Luisa Señoret paints a portrait of her filmmaker daughter, while the latter films the process and walks among the canvases hanging on the walls of her mother’s studio. These movements become a pretext for a journey back in time that...

This film takes a look at the Portuguese community of some 30,000 people settled in Montreal, focusing in particular on the family of Manuel Borges, who arrived in Quebec in 1967. It thus portrays, with nuance and sensitivity, the issues arising from...

An early film by Marilú Mallet (as Maria Luisa Mallet) created for the Education Ministry's Department of Culture under Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government. The film combines images with intertitles that present the disparity in land distribu...

Lucia has left her native Chile and is now living in Montréal, Canada. Here, she tries to start a new life as an art teacher while also dealing with the painful memories of the coup d'etat that overthew the democratically elected government of Salvad...

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