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After her prized 2017 film, Bad Influence displayed the oppression of the indigenous Mapuche people in Chile, filmmaker Claudia Huaiquimilla s work continues to dig into her country s deeply entrenched inequalities.
Chile’s at it again. Since’s Andrés Wood’s breakout “Machuca” in 2004, Chilean filmmakers, led by Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio and now Maite Alberdi, have punched consistently above the country’s weight, consistently winning plaudits at Sundance, Berlin and Cannes. Chile has also won three Oscars – for Claudio Miranda’s cinematography on 2012’s “Life of Pi,” 2015’s …