A Fantastic Woman

  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Sebastián Lelio
  • Chile, USA, Germany, Spain 2017
  • 103 minutes
  • Spanish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio follows his marvelous Gloria (2013) with another resoundingly affirmative portrait of a marginalized woman holding her ground. Santiago bar singer Marina Vidal is headstrong, vivacious and happily in love. When her lover dies, Marina finds herself, a trans woman living with an older man, immediately suspected of foul play.

Rising Chilean director Sebastián Lelio celebrates the endurance of a woman under suspicion of murder in a film that heralds a stellar debut for transgender actress Daniela Vega.

Filmography: Disobedience (2017), Gloria (2013), La sagrada familia (2005).


  • Director Sebastián Lelio
  • Production Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza
  • Script Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza
  • Cinematography Benjamín Echazarreta
  • Editing Soledad Salfate
  • Music Matthew Herbert
  • Festivals Berlinale (Best Screenplay, Teddy Award), Telluride, Toronto, London
  • Actors Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Kuppenheim
  • Source Lev Films and Cinemas