CUERPO CELESTE
Under the hot summer sun of the Atacama Desert, 15-year-old Celeste (Helen Mrugalski) is celebrating New Year’s Eve with her family at the beach. Her parents are archaeologists, ostensibly searching for whale bones in the sand. When the clock strikes midnight, it will be 1990, a new decade that will bring the end of Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship and the beginning of a better future. However, a life-altering incident stops the celebration dead in its tracks, forcing Celeste and her mother to figure out a new way forward. A year later, Celeste returns to the same coastal town, her eyes finally opened to long-hidden secrets and the harsh realities that faced Chile under dictatorship. Filmmaker Nayra Ilic García merges the personal with the political to create a brilliant coming-of-age film featuring a breakout performance by Mrugalski and vivid cinematography by Sergio Armstrong. –Josh Gardner
Special Jury Mention for International Narrative Feature, 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. DIR/SCR Nayra Ilic García; PROD Fernando Bascuñán, Úrsula Budnik. Chile/Italy, 2025, color, 97 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, October 05, 2025
Genre: Drama
