Il Cileno

directed by Sergio Castro-San Martín

written by  Simona Nobile / Sergio Castro-San Martín

cast Camilo Arancibia / Sara Serraiocco / Andrew Bargsted / Gaetano Bruno / with the participation of Lorenzo Richelmy

drama / historical • Italy / Chile / Switzerland, 2026

lenght 100′

produced by dispàrte / Equeco / Cinédokké in association with Redibis Film

in coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera / SGR SSR

with the support of MiC – Ministero della Cultura DGCA (Italy) / PR FESR Piemonte 2021-2027 Bando “Piemonte Film Tv Fund” (Italy) / Film Commission Torino Piemonte (Italy) / Creative Europe MEDIA / Ibermedia /FFA – Ministerio de la Cultura (Chile) / CORFO (Chile) / Fondo De Fomento Audiovisual – Mincap (Chile) /Federal Office Of Culture (Switzerland) / Repubblica e Cantone Ticino – Fondo Cantonale Per La Cinematografia (Switzerland) / Ticino Film Commission (Switzerland)

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1976. At the height of the Chilean miners’ protests against Pinochet’s dictatorship, Aldo Marín, a young socialist and explosives expert, is forced into exile. Leaving his wife and newborn son behind, he tries to scrape by in Turin, a city torn apart by the tensions of the ‘Years of Lead’.
Everything changes when he meets Luciana, a doctor with links to anarchist circles who performs clandestine abortions. She offers him the chance to be reunited with his family, but in return Aldo must dust off a talent that is also his greatest curse: that of making bombs.

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