After a shocking incident upends her family life and her marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation in this incendiary drama about art, desire, and the modern family.
Pablo Larraín (Santiago de Chile, 1976) debuted as a director with Fuga in 2005. His next work, Tony Manero (2008), won the Films in Progress Award at Toulouse 2008 and premiered in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Festival in 2008 and Post Mortem (2010) competed in the Official Section at the Venice Festival. He returned to the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes with No (2012), Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominee, and with Neruda (2016). In 2015 El club (The Club) won the Jury Grand Prix at the Berlin Festival and in 2016 he directed his first film in English, Jackie, starring Natalie Portman. He is also the director of Prófugos (2011), the first HBO TV series to be produced in Chile. Ema competed at the last Venice Festival.