This film screening is part of the film screenings series Chile50: Politics & Aesthetics, curated and organised by the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) and Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (FIC Valdivia). The selected films Read more…
On 11th September 1973 a violent coup in Chile overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. What followed was nearly 17 years of repression in which the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet transformed the country. More than 2000 Chilean exiles came to the UK, aided by a network that included Read more…
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Department of Drama, the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, and the SPLAS Cineclub. In 2023, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup that led to the overthrow of the democratically Read more…
