One of the leading figures of contemporary Chilean cinema.
Sebastián Lelio, one of the leading figures of contemporary Chilean cinema, makes films about love and compassion – and the limits of our love and compassion. About who is loved, and accepted, and who is deigned not worthy, and excluded.
He has a personal warmth, friendliness and a winning smile. ‘Film’, he tells me, ‘is a machine for empathy’ and his films deeply immerse us in a life and experience. Usually it’s a woman who is, in some way, an outsider.
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