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Marilú Mallet
Born in Santiago de Chile, Marilú Mallet is a multi-award-winning director and one of the most important female filmmakers of the Chilean diaspora. She permanently settled in Canada after the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende. In 1974, collaborating with fellow Chilean filmmakers Jorge Fajardo and Rodrigo Gonzalez, Mallet completed the NFB triptych film Il n’y a pas d’oubli, to which she contributed the 25-minute short Lentemente (1974), one of the first films ever directed by a Latin American-born filmmaker in Canada. During a career spanning almost 50 years, she has directed five NFB films in total, including Les Borges (1978), Mémoires d’une enfant des Andes (1985), Chère Amérique (1990) and La Cueca Sola (2003).
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La Cueca SolaMarilú Mallet 2003 52 minSantiago, Chile. September 11, 1973. A military dictatorship seizes power and wields it for 17 years. Thousands of men disappear. "Donde estan? (Where are they?)," ask the women, their partners in la cueca, the traditional Chilean courtship dance. Surmounting their grief, the women speak out and struggle to restore democracy. Their lives suspended, they continue to dance la cueca sola, alone.
This documentary by Marilu Mallet tells the stories of five women who suffered under dictatorship and emerged as heroes under democracy. The threads of the five stories are closely intertwined with the history of Chile, encouraging reflection on the burden of heritage, the relativity of happiness and the power of memory. Navigating through the past but firmly moored in the present, the film expresses an entire nation's faith in a future in which such a thing will never happen again. -
Child of the AndesMarilú Mallet 1988 27 minThis documentary presents the people of Andahuaylillas, Peru, a small village located high in the Andes. Ten-year-old Sébastiana recounts their history and legends and explains the local customs, which have persisted for over three centuries. Child of the Andes is a look at a simpler way of life still undisturbed by modern society's technology and materialism.
