Chile, 1992. Staying at her grandparents’ remote hotel near an Andean ski resort, nine-year-old Inés befriends Hanna, a German teenager training as a skier. When Hanna vanishes on the mountain, the search for her exposes the hidden truths the adults around Inés would rather keep buried, in a country learning to look away from its recent past, while an Antarctic iceberg sent to the Seville Expo slowly melts half a world away.
Chile, 1992. At the Vista del Volcán, her grandparents' ski hotel in the Andes, nine-year-old Inés is meant to go to bed early and finish her homework. She would much rather be anywhere else: sleeping in the staff quarters, out on the slopes, or trailing after Hanna, a 14-year-old German racer training on the mountain under the eye of a demanding coach and her mother, Lina, a former East German athlete. Hanna is everything Inés wants to be. She orders pisco at the bar, lets Inés share her room and sneaks out at night with Inés's older brother, Sebastián. Then she disappears.
Helicopters circle, patrols comb the slopes and policemen crowd the lobby. Inés knows more than she should, and her grandmother, anxious to protect the family and the Spanish investors she is courting, tells her, firmly and lovingly, that she knows nothing. Only Lina refuses to stop asking questions. On television, Chile is showing off an Antarctic iceberg at the Seville Expo, proof of a modern country that has turned the page on dictatorship, while inside the hotel, everything the adults have buried is slowly starting to melt. Manuela Martelli's second feature is Chile's submission for Best International Feature at the 99th Academy Awards.
Helicopters circle, patrols comb the slopes and policemen crowd the lobby. Inés knows more than she should, and her grandmother, anxious to protect the family and the Spanish investors she is courting, tells her, firmly and lovingly, that she knows nothing. Only Lina refuses to stop asking questions. On television, Chile is showing off an Antarctic iceberg at the Seville Expo, proof of a modern country that has turned the page on dictatorship, while inside the hotel, everything the adults have buried is slowly starting to melt. Manuela Martelli's second feature is Chile's submission for Best International Feature at the 99th Academy Awards.
