Mother, Country + Q&A (Online Documentary Screening)
Alborada Films Film Club presents
Directed by Pablo Navarrete, 91 minutes, English/Spanish with English/Spanish subtitles), Alborada Films, 2024
Watch the film in your own time online from 20 November until 31 December.
Important note: Once you buy a ticket you will be emailed a unique link to watch the film on Vimeo during the above dates/times. You will also be sent a link to watch a recording of a Q&A with the director Pablo Navarrete, film participant Cristina Godoy-Navarrete and the film's co-producer Rodrigo Vázquez-Salessi (Bethnal Films) that took place in August 2025. The Q&A was chaired by journalist Grace Livingstone.*
**Facebook event page // Listing on the Alborada Films website
Event supported by Alborada, Asamblea Chilena en Londres, Chile Solidarity Network and the Independent Media Association (IMA)
FILM SYNOPSIS
[EN]
Pablo Navarrete's parents were forced to leave Chile after a military coup on 11 September 1973. They arrived in the UK as political refugees after spending time in the Pinochet dictatorship’s torture centres. They didn’t know it then, but Britain would be where they would settle, have a family, and still live, nearly 50 years later. Filmed over more than three years, Mother, Country is a deeply personal film that follows the director as he travels to Chile with his parents in 2020 to witness a people’s uprising and finally confront their past.
[ES]
Los padres de Pablo Navarrete tuvieron que abandonar Chile después de un golpe militar el 11 de septiembre de 1973. Llegaron al Reino Unido como refugiados políticos después de pasar por los centros de tortura de la dictadura de Pinochet. No lo sabían entonces, pero Gran Bretaña sería el lugar donde se establecerían, tendrían una familia y seguirían viviendo, casi 50 años después. Filmada durante más de tres años, Mother, Country (El país de mi madre) es una película profundamente personal que acompaña al director mientras viaja a Chile con sus padres en 2020, para presenciar el levantamiento de un pueblo y finalmente confrontar su pasado.
*Dr Grace Livingstone is a journalist and an affiliated lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. She has reported for the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and The Observer. She is the author of several books including America's Backyard: Latin America and the United States from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror and Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82.
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> Watch a teaser for Mother, Country here.
> Read a short article about the film written by Pablo here; click here to read a review of the documentary on the film website DMovies
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