Chile, 1976, one of the bloodiest years of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Carmen is a housewife who lives the placidity of middle-class bourgeois life. But someday she receives an appeal from the family priest to hide a political refugee in her beach house. Screened at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Manuela Martelli
Born in 1983, Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress known for her performances in the films B-Happy (2003), Machuca (2004), and The Future (2013) – based on the novel "A Little Lumpen Novelita", by Roberto Bolaño. 1976 is her first feature film as a director.
