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2017 Santiago Int. Film Fest: Östlund’s The Square, Mitre’s The Summit & Matt Dillon Part of 13th Edition

Published on July 29, 2017

The Santiago International Film Festival (August 20 – 27, 2017) announced the program for the 13th edition.
Known for his roles of Dallas Winston, Rusty James and Cliff Poncier and future lead in Lars von Trier The House That Jack Built, Matt Dillon is the festival’s special guest and he will be joined by regular Fatih Akin Cinematographer Rainer Klausmann. The opening film of the festival will be the latest film of Argentine director Santiago Mitre’s The Summit (Un Certain Regard section in Cannes). Here are the International Competition titles:

Autumn, Autumn (South Korea) by Jang Woo-jin
The Family (Venezuela-Chile- Norway) by Gustavo Rondón Córdova
The Desert Bride (Argentina-Chile) by Valeria Pivato and Cecilia Atan
The territories (Argentina-Brazil) by Ivan Granovsky
Makala (France) by Emmanuel Gras
In the Intense Now (Brazil) by João Moreira Salles
Porto (Portugal-United States-France-Poland) by Gabe Klinger
Resurrecting Hassan (Chile-Canada) by Carlo Guillermo Proto
Summer 1993 (Spain) by Carla Simón

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Film Festivals

2017 Santiago Int. Film Fest: Östlund’s The Square, Mitre’s The Summit & Matt Dillon Part of 13th Edition