Thaw: chilling trailer for the new drama from the director of Chili 1976
This film will be presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
A landscape covered in white, a young girl who disappears, a tense political context and breathtaking music: Thaw unveils a trailer with nervous poetry between thriller and family drama.
Four years later Chile 1976her first feature film presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, Chilean director Manuela Martelli, is back on the Croisette with a new drama, this time selected for Un Certain Regard. 1992, in the Chilean mountains, in the middle of winter, Hanna, a young 14-year-old German skier, suddenly disappears. Among the distraught adults, little Inès who had become friends with her seeks to explain this mysterious disappearance…
In the cast, we will find Maya O’Rourke in the role of Inès, Maia Rae Domagala and Saskia Rosendahl.
After Chile 1976which looked back on the political events that occurred after the 1973 coup d’état, Manuela Martelli this time anchors her story in 1992, just two years after the end of the dictatorship established by General Pinochet… Through these very personal intrigues, it is the entire Chilean tragedy that she tells.
Synopsis: “Chile, 1992. The country remains marked by years of dictatorship. While she is looked after by her grandparents in their ski resort hotel, 9-year-old Inès becomes friends with Hanna, a young sportswoman from Germany. When it disappears without a trace, the child seeks to understand…”
Thaw has no release yet. Trailer:
