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Society Sebastián Silva (Chile 2012) Director Q&A with Sebastián
Siva following the film  If Alicia could just get some sleep,
everything would be all right. As she and her cousin Sarah make
their way through rural Chile with Sarah’s boyfriend, his
sister, and their strange American friend Brink, Alicia’s
insomnia slowly takes control. The difference between what is
happening in reality and what is happening in her own mind
becomes less and less clear to her. After she takes a stab at
hypnosis to help solve the problem, things only get worse. As
her waking nightmare continues, will her “friends” be her
salvation or her downfall? Writer/director Sebastián Silva
crafts an unsettling film that examines sexual repression and
the fear of loss. With vivid characters in conflict, evocative
landscapes, and Christopher Doyle and Glenn Kaplan's fluid
cinematography, Silva shows how the smallest choices we make can
have significant and insurmountable consequence