10 · 23 · 23 “A story erased from the official page of Chile's history”: Felipe Gálvez at the Presentation of LOS COLONOS Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Said García Felipe Gálvez Haberle, winner of the FIPRESCI Award in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, presented his film Los colonos (2023) at the 21st Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). Gálvez brings us a story set in the early 20th century, where a wealthy landowner hires three horsemen to delimit the territory of his property in Chile. The expedition soon turns into a "civilizing" raid. Jorge Negrete, Felipe Gálvez Haberle During his speech, Gálvez described the film as: "A story erased from the official page of Chile's history." The director was joined by producer Emily Morgan. He also confessed that this was his first time in another Latin American country personally presenting a film. At the end of the screening, Gálvez returned to the room to answer questions from the audience. "I was interested in making a work of fiction. I believe that cinema is a machine to distort reality. To present reality seems pretentious to me," the director said. He revealed that for his next projects, he would like to deal with political and propaganda themes, but above all, he would like to take up stories that have been erased from the pages of history.
