INDIECORK FESTIVAL is delighted present the irish premiere of this new Chilean film:

The Settlers / Los Colonos Felipe Gálvez / Chile / 2023 / 97 mins Mark Stanley, MacLennan Camilio Arancibia, Segundo Benjamin Westfall

Chile, at the beginning of the 20th century. A wealthy landowner hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a �civilising� raid. This revisionist Western drama is forthright in it�s depiction of the harshness at the core of this mission. What appears to be an administrative expedition turns into a merciless hunt for Onas, the natives of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

Winner, Fipresci Prize, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2023

Best Film, Stockholm Film festival 2023

�The film is a blistering laceration of the contradictions and hypocrisies of European racism�

Slant Magazine

�A heady, opaque western, slow to stir but vicious as a rattlesnake when it does�

Variety

�The work of a daring director intent on developing a distinctive and original voice�

Screen International