In 1973, the Chilean military, under the direction of General Augusto Pinochet and backed by the CIA, overthrew the shaky socialist government of democratically elected President Salvador Allende. The coup led to the murder of 3,000 leftist Allende supporters and the detention of an estimated 250,000 political prisoners.
Set against the background of the political instability that led to the crisis, Andrés Woods' Machuca is the moving story of the friendship between two boys from different sides of the social spectrum. A major box-office hit in Chile, the semi-autobiographical film succeeds on both a human and a political level, the different elements coming together in a final conflagration.

‘You don't have to know Chile's bloody history to be moved by the poignant new film Machuca, the first movie made by a Chilean about the country's 1973 military coup.’ New York Post

Other films in this section:

• Amazing Grace
• Cafe Lumiere
• Casshern
• Dig!
• Falling Angels
• It's All Gone Pete Tong
• Mysterious Skin
• Palindromes
• Republic of Love
• Scared Sacred
• Sky Blue
• Steamboy
• The Take
• Untold Scandal
• Wall (Mur)
• White Skin