Summer, 1990. As Chile’s dictatorship draws to a close, fifteen-year-old Celeste spends the holidays with her family on a remote beach by the Atacama Desert. When an event shatters her adolescence and sends her mother into a downward spiral, their world begins to shift. Months later, drawn by the promise of a solar eclipse, Celeste returns to that same place, but nothing is the same. In a country on the brink of transformation, she must navigate her own path forward. Cuerpo Celeste is the opening film of the ‘Bloom’ section.

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Tribeca Film Festival - Special Mention for International Narrative Feature

Nayra Ilic is a Chilean director, screenwriter, and professor. Her debut feature film, Metro Cuadrado (2011), won an award at FIC Valdivia and had its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Cuerpo Celeste, her second feature, was selected for the Torino Film Lab and the co-production forums of the San Sebastián, Málaga, and FIC Valdivia festivals, winning the WIP Latam award at San Sebastián.

Metro Cuadrado (2011)

Director: Nayra Ilic
Cast: Helen Mrugalski, Daniela Ramírez, Néstor Cantillana, Mariana Loyola, Nicolás Contreras
Cinematography: Sergio Armstrong
Screenwriter: Nayra Ilic
Producer: Fernando Bascuñán Ursula Budnik
Editor: Valentina Hernández
Music: David Tarantino
Hungarian Distributor: -
Colour: colour
min: 95 mins

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