Cannes Interview: Dominga Sotomayor on Her Spontaneous and Liberating La Perra

Dominga Sotomayors cinema is one of confined spaces. Her features tend to unfurl in tight, growingly claustrophobic settings. In her 2012 debut Thursday till Sunday, the action took place by and large inside a car en route to the beaches of northern Chile; her festival prizewinning breakout Too Late to Die Young (2018) never strayed beyond the confines of a bohemian commune at the dawn of the countrys post-Pinochet era; and her Netflix-produced Swim to Me (2025) zoomed in on an affluent villa in...