Pablo Navarrete's parents were forced to leave Chile after a military coup on 11 September 1973. They arrived in the UK as political refugees after spending time in the Pinochet dictatorship’s torture centres. They didn’t know it then, but Britain would be where they would settle, have a family, and still live, nearly 50 years later.

Filmed over more than three years, Mother, Country is a deeply personal film that follows the director as he travels to Chile with his parents in 2020 to witness a people’s uprising and finally confront their past.

The film was in the official selection at the Santiago Álvarez Documentary Film Festival, the ‘Other Cinema’ Human Rights Film Festival, and the Trieste Ibero-Latin American Film Festival.

The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with director Pablo Navarrete and his mother, Cristina Godoy-Navarrete, hosted by Mariela Kohon, Assistant Director, Strategy & Delivery, Trade Union Congress (TUC).

Click here to listen to a Q&A with them chaired by journalist Matt Kennard, after a sold-out September 2024 screening of the film at the Garden Cinema.