The Life That Will Come (2026)

La vida que vendrá

Fifty years of Chilean history are vividly reconstructed through an intimate collage of amateur archival footage in this powerful documentary. Defying official narratives, filmmaker Karin Cuyul assembles a personal, ground-level mosaic that captures the nation’s emotional arc—from the thrill of possibility to the weight of disappointment. Spanning the 1973 military coup to the recent collapse of two constitutional proposals, the film reveals a country caught between hope and heartbreak. But rather than surrendering to despair, Cuyul mines the past for answers: how do we keep dreaming of transformation when dreams keep breaking? A masterclass in collective memory, this film dares to ask what happens when the history we’re told, the history we live, and the history we tell ourselves refuse to align.