Trauma
Evil requires loyalty
Directed by Lucio A. Rojas
Produced by Trauma Spa, Border Motion Cinema
A brutal thriller that weaponizes Chile's dictatorship trauma as the source of generational violence, trapping its protagonists in a nightmare where institutional evil has metastasized into family pathology.
Four friends visit a rural locality of Chile, are brutally attacked by a man and his son. After not finding help in the town, they decide to confront these men with the help of a pair of policemen. But in this way, they will discover that their attackers have in their blood the direct legacy of the darkest period of Chilean history and will have to face the most brutal enemy.
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