WED JUN 3, 2026 10:00 PM JACKAL OF NAHUELTORO $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by professor José Miguel Palacios Curated in partnership with Cineteca de la Universidad de Chile ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ This event has passed
ABOUT THE FILM: In Spanish with English subtitles. Miguel Littín’s now legendary debut feature is a crucial work of the New Chilean Cinema, a transformational movement that ushered an urgently realist and political imperative into Chilean filmmaking. Based on the true story of an impoverished drifter whose seemingly inexplicable cold-blooded murder of a widow and her five young children shocked the nation and set in motion a fierce debate about penal reform, JACKAL OF NAHUELTORO revisits the crime to ask penetrating questions about the class system and responsibility of the state towards its citizens. Following the tragic story of the killer’s difficult life as an abused orphan who never receives an education, the film convincingly insists on holding to task the sociocultural conditions that shaped a life lost to indolence, alcohol and dark forces and that can push one to commit the most heinous of crimes. FORMAT: DCP COUNTRY: Chile