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EXCLUSIVE: Chilean head Manuela Martelli will make her Cannes Official Selection debut this May arsenic pinch her 2nd characteristic Meltdown premiering successful Un Certain Regard, and Deadline tin uncover a first teaser.
Set successful Chile successful 1992, during a a clip of modulation aft Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship, nan play follows nine-year-old Inès who befriends teenage German skier Hanna, while staying astatine her grandparents’ distant edifice adjacent an Andean skis resort. When Hanna vanishes without a trace, nan hunt for her exposes hidden truths.
Paris-based Losange Films, which is handling world sales, has unveiled first a first teaser giving a a sensation of nan film’s distant alpine consciousness and aerial of mystery.
Martelli is nary alien to Cannes having premiered her first characteristic movie 1976 in Directors’ Fortnight successful 2022, kicking disconnected a agelong show circuit which besides saw it group down astatine San Sebastian and nan BFI London Film Festival.
Aline Küppenheim starred arsenic a female who agrees to shelter a young wounded guidance activity personnel successful her summertime formation location successful nan Pinochet era drama.
Prior to that, Martelli participated successful Directors’ Fortnight’s Chile Factory program, done which she co-directed nan short movie Marea with Amirah Tajdin. It premiered successful nan parallel conception and was besides presented astatine nan Sundance and NYFF festivals among others.
Meltdown is produced by Alejandra García astatine Ronda Cine (Chile); Alex C. Lo astatine Cinema Inutile (U.S.) and Andrés Wood astatine Wood Producciones (Chile), successful co-production pinch Elastica Films (Spain), Piano (Mexico), Fundación Río (Chile).
