Impunity

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Chilean writer-director Felipe Gálvez, whose debut feature The Settlers premiered in Cannes in 2023, has set his second feature film as Impunity, a spy thriller set in the late 1990s around the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The film, which is based on the upcoming book 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands, follows an ex-spy hired to prevent the escape of the Chilean dictator after his capture in London unleashes geopolitical unrest. Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in Chile by former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón before he was arrested in 1998 at the London Bridge hospital. He was held under house a rest for a year and a half before being released by the UK government in 2000. +