{"id":41867,"date":"2026-04-10T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/?p=41867"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:45:30","slug":"a-yard-of-jackals-premieres-on-indiepix-unlimited-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/a-yard-of-jackals-premieres-on-indiepix-unlimited-may-8\/","title":{"rendered":"A YARD OF JACKALS | Premieres on IndiePix Unlimited May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>One man\u2019s paranoia spirals in <\/strong><em><strong>A YARD OF JACKALS<\/strong><\/em><strong>,<\/strong> a chilling psychological thriller set against the oppressive backdrop of <strong>Pinochet\u2011era Chile<\/strong>, arriving <strong>exclusively on IndiePix Unlimited on May 8, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nominated for <strong>Best First Feature<\/strong> at the <strong>Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival<\/strong>, the film marks the striking debut of writer\u2011director <strong>Diego Figueroa<\/strong>, who won <strong>Best Director<\/strong> in the festival\u2019s First Feature Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Yard Of Jackals\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZXhNOKrIJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter, 1978. Under the suffocating weight of Chile\u2019s dictatorship, <strong>Ra\u00fal Peralta<\/strong> (N\u00e9stor Cantillana) lives a quiet, isolated life in Santiago, caring for his ailing mother and finding companionship only in his pet canary. His fragile routine shatters with the arrival of new neighbors whose unsettling behavior hints at sinister secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Ra\u00fal becomes increasingly fixated on their activities \u2014 and on <strong>Guillermo<\/strong>, a mysterious man in dark glasses \u2014 his grip on reality begins to fracture. Caught between personal grief and political terror, Ra\u00fal is forced to confront the psychological scars of repression in a story of <strong>isolation, moral decay, and a mind unraveling under authoritarian rule<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CREDITS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Written &amp; Directed by:<\/strong> Diego Figueroa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cast:<\/strong> N\u00e9stor Cantillana Juan Cano Consuelo Holzapfel Grimanesa Jim\u00e9nez Blanca Lewin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Produced by:<\/strong> Alejandro Ugarte<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster-660x978.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-yard-of-jackals-poster.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man\u2019s paranoia spirals in A YARD OF JACKALS, a chilling psychological thriller set against the oppressive backdrop of Pinochet\u2011era Chile, arriving exclusively on IndiePix Unlimited on May 8, 2026. Nominated for Best First Feature at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the film marks the striking debut of writer\u2011director Diego Figueroa, who won Best\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/a-yard-of-jackals-premieres-on-indiepix-unlimited-may-8\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,4396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-trailers","category-movies","category-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41869,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions\/41869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}