EXCLUSIVE: Chilean director Manuela Martelli will make her Cannes Official Selection debut this May as with her second feature Meltdown premiering in Un Certain Regard, and Deadline can reveal a first teaser.
Set in Chile in 1992, during a a time of transition after Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship, the drama follows nine-year-old Inès who befriends teenage German skier Hanna, while staying at her grandparents’ remote hotel near an Andean ski resort. When Hanna vanishes without a trace, the search for her exposes hidden truths.
Paris-based Losange Films, which is handling international sales, has unveiled first a first teaser giving a a taste of the film’s remote alpine feel and air of mystery.
Martelli is no stranger to Cannes having premiered her first feature film 1976 in Directors’ Fortnight in 2022, kicking off a long festival tour which also saw it set down at San Sebastian and the BFI London Film Festival.
Aline Küppenheim starred as a woman who agrees to shelter a young wounded resistance movement member in her summer beach house in the Pinochet era drama.
Prior to that, Martelli participated in Directors’ Fortnight’s Chile Factory program, through which she co-directed the short film Marea with Amirah Tajdin. It premiered in the parallel section and was also presented at the Sundance and NYFF festivals among others.
Meltdown is produced by Alejandra García at Ronda Cine (Chile); Alex C. Lo at Cinema Inutile (U.S.) and Andrés Wood at Wood Producciones (Chile), in co-production with Elastica Films (Spain), Piano (Mexico), Fundación Río (Chile).
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