A disappearance in the Chilean Andes opens the door to a country’s unresolved past in the full trailer for “The Meltdown,” the second feature from Manuela Martelli (“Chile ’76”). And the film has now received a significant boost: the Chilean Film Academy has selected Martelli’s mystery as the country’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards.
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Set in 1992, two years after the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, the film centers on nine-year-old Inés (Maya O’Rourke), who is staying at her grandparents’ remote hotel near an Andean ski resort while her parents attend a trade conference in Seville.
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