The Close-up

Welcome to a new episode of the Film at Lincoln Center podcast. This week we’re excited to present two Q&As: the first from Chile '76, a 2023 New Directors/New Films selection, and Unrest, a Main Slate selection of the 60th New York Film Festival. Both Chile '76 and Unrest open in our theaters on May 5 with filmmaker Q&As at select screenings opening weekend. In Chile '76, Manuela Martelli places the viewer in a historical moment fraught with anxiety: the early years of Augusto Pinochet’s regime in Chile. Her narrative presents Pinochet’s oppressive reign from the unusual and surprising perspective of Carmen (a superb Aline Küppenheim), an upper-middle-class woman whose life begins to unravel after local priest Father Sánchez (Hugo Medina) implores her to use her summer beach house, under renovation, to hide an injured young man (Nicolás Sepúlveda) whom she comes to suspect is a victim of political persecution. As Carmen descends into danger, she experiences a gradual moral awakening. Martelli’s film is a ta