未完成日记 Journal inachevé

Open City Documentary Festival 2023

Marilú Mallet arrived in Quebec in 1973, fleeing her native Chile after the coup d’état against Salvador Allende led to Augusto Pinochet’s military junta. Diario inconcluso/Journal inachevé was made nearly a decade later. In the words of film scholar Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto, the film “uses the intimate diary form to convey Mallet’s everyday life as an exiled woman filmmaker in Montreal, working through her past while navigating a new culture,” thereby “bridging the individual and collective experiences of forced displacement.” The film emerged from an unfinished epistolary project titles Les lettres (The Letters), which Mallet planned to undertake with her friend and fellow Chilean filmmaker in exile, Valeria Sarmiento, who was at the time living in Paris.