“La Ola”, interview with director Sebastián Lelio

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio is at the 78th Cannes Film Festival to present "La Ola" in the Cannes Premiere section. The Oscar Winner for "A Fantastic Woman" is again portraying women, in a musical he produced with Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín and Rocío Jadue about the historic feminist occupation and massive protests in May 2018. With a screenplay he wrote with acclaimed writers Manuela Infante, Josefina Fernández and Paloma Salas, the film relies on a cast of brilliant new faces such as Daniela López as the protagonist Julia, Lola Bravo as Rafa, Avril Aurora as Luna and Paulina Cortés as Tamara. Mixing entertaining and political, the film not only talks and “sings” about the struggles women still have to face when it comes to redefining their relationship with men who are still carrying a patriarchal system but, at the same time focus on the Latin American situation which, in some cases, have still a lot of battles to fight and win.