Screening: 12th February 2026
Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle
Cast: Camilo Arancibia, Benjamin Westfall, Alfredo Castro, Mark Stanley, Sam Spruell
Country: Chile
Language: Spanish and English (with English subtitles)
Rating: 15
Running time: 97 minutes
Film summary
In Chile in 1901, three horsemen are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a part-indigenous tracker, who realises that his true mission is to help kill the Patagonian natives. Violence escalates on their murderous adventure, exposing the brutality of colonialism and the erasure of indigenous identity.
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What the critics said
“It’s a fierce, stark, almost primitive parable of cruelty and power.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“The film is a searing account of the “settling” of Tierra del Fuego, a borderline area where everything was up for grabs, and lawlessness was the only rule. “The Settlers” is not just an account of historical events, it’s a national reckoning with a barbaric past.”
Sheila O’Malley, rogerebert.com
Major awards
- Winner – International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize, Cannes 2024
- Winner – Best Picture, Stockholm International Film Festival 2023
- Winner – Best Screenplay, Lima Film Festival 2023
- Winner – Fiction Grand Award, International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights 2023
Film Club at the Roxy 