133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011 Machuca follows the lives, over the course of a school year in 1972/73, of two young schoolboys in Santiago, Chile. One is from an upper-middle-class ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Eduardo Machuca, the former film co-ordinator of Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has launched his own production company, Machuca Films. “After 25 years at the ministry, I felt ...

Stefano Tijerina held a discussion on Tuesday, Feb. 21 surrounding themes of political turmoil, foreign policy and societal issues from the 2004 coming-of-age film “Machuca” directed by Andres Wood.

There is no separating the personal from the political in “Machuca.” This film’s determination to tell a story of profound societal dislocation in intensely human terms favors neither part of the ...

In Spanish, with English sub titles. Running time: 120 minutes. Not rated (some violence). At Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. Through Feb. 1. YOU don’t have to know Chile’s bloody ...

“Machuca,” from Chile, is a fine, exciting film that makes a bloody historical event live all over again by showing it through the eyes of children on the edges of the conflict. Portraying the coup ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Eduardo Machuca, the former film co-ordinator of Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has launched his own production company, Machuca Films. “After 25 years at the ministry, I felt ...