2024-09-07 09:46:37
The film will be released in Chilean cinemas in September and on a popular streaming platform in October.
The Chilean Film Academy surprised by announcing that The Place of the Otherthe new movie of Dear Alberdi, will represent our country in prominent international awards such as the Oscar and Goya.
The association celebrated the news with a post on their social media in which they wrote: “We are excited to announce that our members They have chosen The Place of the Other as the Chilean candidate for Best Foreign Film at the 2025 Oscars and Best Ibero-American Film at the Goya Awards.”
The Chilean director, twice nominated for an Oscar for her documentary films, Infinite Memory and The Mole Agent, For the first time, he ventures into a fiction inspired by real events occurred in our country.
The Place of the Other, the film by Maite Alberdi that will represent Chile at the Oscars and the Goya
On this occasion, director Maite Alberdi left documentaries aside to present a dramatic feature film entitled The Place of the OtherThis film is set in the 1950s in Chile, and tells the story by Maria Carolina Geel, a writer who impacted society by murder his lover in cold blood in the now defunct Hotel Crillón.
“When Maria Carolina Geel (Francisca Lewin) murders his lover, the case captivates Mercedes (Elisa Zulueta), the shy clerk of the judge in charge of the case. After visiting the writer’s apartment, Mercedes begins to question her life, identity and the role of women in society when she finds an oasis of freedom in that home.” preview the synopsis.
The Place of the Other features performances by Eliza Zulueta, Francisca Lewin, Pablo Macaya, Marcial Tagle and Gabriel Urzúa, among others.
The film will premiere in the San Sebastian Film Festivaland will be released in our country’s cinemas in September. In addition, The Place of the Other will arrive in the catalogue of Netflix the next October 11th.