Antonio Skármeta

Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever. (imdb)

The Dancer and the Thief (El Baile de la Victoria),the first non-documentary feature film in seven years from Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque), is an attractively shot, energetic romp, and a likeable genre-bending tale of crime and love among the lost and marginalised of post-Pinochet Chile. (screendaily)

An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. (imdb)

Filmed in Portugal, Calm Prevails Over the Country is a powerful political parable about police repression in Latin America. (FILMAFFINITY)

A poor postman in Isla Negra, Chile, befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help in writing poems to the woman of his dreams.

It follows Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta as he celebrates the end of the autocrats. Cheerful farewell rituals accompany others facing political persecution on their way to fly home.