Calle Santa Fé in the suburbs of Santiago de Chile on 5th October 1974. Carmen Castillo survives her partner, Miguel Enríquez, leader of the Revolutionary Left-Wing Movement (MIR) and of the Resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship, killed in combat. This is the starting point of Calle Santa Fé, a journey through these neighbourhoods and the memory of the defeated: a journey showing neither complacency nor self-indulgence; a narrative guided by the questions: Was all of the resistance worth the effort? Did Miguel die for nothing?
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| Carmen Castillo |
| Born in Santiago de Chile, she worked at the Palacio de La Moneda alongside Salvador Allende. Following the death of her partner, Miguel Enríquez, killed by military forces, Carmen Castillo, who was pregnant at the time and injured in the occurrence was expelled from Chile and landed in France as a political refugee. There she directed documentaries for television, the most recent of which are José Saramago, le temps d’une mémoire (2003) and Le Chili de mon père (2004). In 2002, she started working on Calle Santa Fé while living between Paris and Santiago de Chile. |
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