Machuca
Machuca is a 2004, inspired by the novel Tres años para nacer - Historia de un verdadero machuca, by Chilean author Eledín Parraguez. The film reperesented Latin America at the 57th Cannes Festival where recieved a special mention and was nominated as Best Spanish-Speaking Foreign Film at the Goya Awards (2024).
Synopsis: Set in Santiago during the months leading up to the 1973 coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet – which overthrew Salvador Allende's socialist government – the film tells the story of two boys who attend an upper-class elementary school: Gonzalo Infante – who belongs to a rich family with a European background – and Pedro Machuca – who is poor and comes from an indigenous background. They are classmates and become friends at this English-language Catholic elite school, which Machuca attends thanks to the social integration project developed by its director, Father McEnroe.
