Thu May 24 | 9:30 pm | PC

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Cine Chile Spotlight, Part 2

Director: María Elena Wood, Chile, 2006, 59 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles

The General’s Daughter tells the story of the life of Michelle Bachelet and her surprising journey along the road to the presidency of Chile. Despite being a socialist, a single parent and an agnostic, Dr. Bachelet succeeds in becoming the first woman President of Chile, one of South America’s most conservative nations, and captures the attention of the world’s press with her singularly female way of engaging with politics.

Chilean filmmaker María Elena Wood spent one year following this once anonymous doctor and socialist militant as she travelled through Chile on the campaign trail, discovering some of the forces motivating Dr. Bachelet and examining the high points in her personal and family life.

Through the letters written by her late father, a general in the Chilean Air Force imprisoned after Pinochet seized power in 1973, we learn the story of a middle-class Chilean family, so profoundly marked by the collapse of democracy and whose experiences are emblematic of Chile’s
recent history.

Screening Partner

Cine Chile is a promotional initiative for contemporary Chilean
Cinema in Canada; its main task is to present recent films with the
purpose of creating a Canadian audience for Chilean Cinema. Cine
Chile is also a liaison agent between industry participants in Canada
and Chile with the aim to lead the way to a more fluent relationship
in the light of a Co-Production Agreement Chile and Canada signed
in 1995.