My Imaginary Country + Chile’s Student Uprising

Chile’s Student Uprising (2014)
Dir. Roberto Navarrete
35min; Digital
In English and Spanish with English subtitles

During the nation’s mass student protests between 2011 and 2013, director Roberto Navarrete traveled to Chile to speak to student leaders like Camila Vallejo and Giorgio Jackson (both later key figures in the Gabriel Boric government) about their demands for a state-funded education system and other radical social changes. In a series of interviews, Chile’s Student Uprising unpacks why these protests had such an effect in Chile and inspired others in the country and beyond.

My Imaginary Country (2022)
Dir. Patricio Guzmán
83min; DCP
In Spanish with English subtitles

When the Social Outburst exploded in Chile in 2019, one and a half million people took to the streets of Santiago demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the Pinochet military dictatorship. Patricio Guzmán, a longtime documentarian of Chile’s socio-political landscape, set out to document the demonstrations that would forever alter the trajectory of his nation. Urgent and inspired, My Imaginary Country features harrowing front-line protest footage and interviews with dynamic activist leaders, powerfully connecting Chile's complex, bloody history to contemporary revolutionary social movements—and the election of a new president.