Led by ‘The Hyperboreans,’ ‘El Conde,’ ‘The Settlers,’ Chile Looks to Genre Blending and Bending to Cut Through the Crowd

“The Hyperboreans,” the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight entry from Chile, defines the inventive works that have emerged from this small nation. Many of its films touch on traumatic national events of the past but play with rarely explored genres in the region. Case in point: the country’s recent Oscar submission, “The Settlers,” about Chile’s bloody colonial […]