Currently at the San Sebastián International Film Festival where she premiered the under-the-radar (soon to bee released on Netflix) Limpia (which is inspired by Alia Trabucco Zerán’s Clean), Dominga Sotomayor will quickly move into a new film project backed by RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira. Deadline reports that production on the book-to-film adaptation of La Perra which will begin lensing this year featuring the likes of Selton Mello, Manuela Oyarzún, David Gaete, and Giannina Fruttero. Planta’s Fernando Bascuñán, RT Features’ Berta Marchiori are also onboard as producers. Some of the book’s themes (trauma, motherhood and loneliness) are quite gnarly – we bet this won’t be an easy watch. The good news is that production is set for sometimes this year – so we can already eye a 2026 film festival splash.
Based on the eponymous novel by Pilar Quintana, written by Inés Bortagaray, this is set on a remote island in southern Chile, it follows Silvia, a solitary middle-aged woman with a painful past, who rescues an abandoned puppy and names her Yuri — the name she once chose for the daughter she never had. As their bond deepens, Silvia pours all of herself into trying to set right a destiny she long believed beyond repair.
Best known for 2012’s Thursday Till Sunday and 2018’s Too Late to Die Young, Sotomayor (who has had cruise ship-set drama Niebla in development with RT Features) has a knack for exploring subtle dynamics in family structures – so this new project belongs to that same thematic tree.
