Memoria del cuerpo

Encounter with Chilean filmmaker Carmen Castillo, survivor of the Pinochet dictatorship. The scars inscribed on her body and her soul take us on a profound journey, a reflection on loss and exile.Survivor of the military dictatorship of Pinochet, the chilean filmmaker Carmen Castillo has narrated her life and that of her country through some of her films: “La flaca Alejandra”, “Calle Santa Fe”, “El país de mi padre”… On October 5, 1974, the military stormed the house where he lived underground with his comrade Miguel Enríquez, leader of the MIR and leader of the Resistance who died in combat. She, pregnant, survived the grenade blast that seriously injured her, but she lost so much blood that her and Enríquez＇s son, Miguel Ángel, died a month after she was born in Cambridge, where Carmen Castillo began its long exile when being expelled from Chile. To everything that happened afterwards she calls "survival". Now she lives in Paris.