Running time: 101 mins
Drama
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
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