Long synopsis : October 5, 1974. Chile. Calle Santa Fe, in the Santiago suburbs. Carmen Castillo, 6 months pregnant, is badly injured and her partner Miguel Enriquez, head of the resistance against Pinochet’s dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins “Calle Santa Fe”, a journey into the memories of the defeated, a journey undertaken without self-indulgence or complacency ; a narrative driven by the question: Were these acts of resistance worth their terrible cost ? Did Miguel die in vain ? Through the lives, faces and voices of his family, his neighbours, his comrades in arms, the director follows a path that leads from the underground into exile, from the glory days of Allende through the long, black years of dictatorship, accompanied by those who resisted and resist still. Between the chaos of the past and the undimmed emotions of today the story of a revolutionary generation and a broken country emerges. “Calle Santa Fe” depicts the quest for the meaning of these lives of struggle, leading us into the heart of a land eager to forget; a land where the dead are never truly dead and the fight against injustice continues.

Crew

• Producer(s): Sergio Gándara, Serge Lalou, Christine Perrier
• Director(s): Carmen Castillo
• DP: Ned Burgess
• Editing: Eva Feigeles
• Original Music: Juan Carlos Reyes Zajal

• Original Title: RUE SANTE FE, DE DEFAITE EN DEFAITE, JUSQU'A
• Genre(s): Documentary


• Production company: FILMS D'ICI (LES)
• Production date: 2007
• Language: Spanish
• Duration: 163 min
• Image Ratio: 1.66
• Sound Info: Dolby SR

• Festival de Cannes 2007 - Un Certain Regard
  
• Montreal World Film Festival 2007
  
• San Sebastian Film Festival 2007
  
• Festival do Rio 2007
  
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2007
  
• New York Film Festival 2007
  
• Sao Paulo Mostra Internacional de Cinema 2007
  
• CPH:DOX 2007
  Award(s) : CPH:DOX Award
• Palm Springs International Film Festival 2008
  
• Göteborg Film Festival 2008
  
• Mexico International Film Festival 2008
  
• Miami International Film Festival 2008
  Award(s) : Documentary Features
• Geneva International Film Festival 2008
  
• BFI London Film Festival 2008
  
• Istanbul Film Festival 2008
  
• Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2008
  
• Sarajevo Film Festival 2008