CHI 2018, R: Gonzalo Justiniano mit: Nathalia Aragonese, Daniel Contesse, Elias Collado, 95 Min, OmeU

In 1983, Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship has a firm grip on Chile. In “La Victoria”, a working-class ghetto in Santiago, Gladys lives with her mother and daughter. They take in Samuel Thompson, a 23-year-old missionary from North America with high ideals. He wants to tell people the Word of God and use his camera to document conditions in Chile. Without intending to, he films the corrupt government’s murderous deeds as well as the first mass protests against Pinochet. Before long, Gladys, too, fights for democracy in Chile and becomes known as “The Frenchwoman”. She and Samuel soon find they have more in common than their political activism. Can their struggle against the regime bring about real change?