No

​The true story of Chile’s 'Mad Men' who fought a dictator with happiness

A simple vote: “Yes” or “No.” It’s 1988 and the Chilean President Augusto Pinochet agrees to a referendum. If the nation votes “Yes” he remains in power. Ad-man René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal) leads the team campaigning for “No,” using strategies of the American Cola Wars. To complicate matters, his boss Lucho Guzman (Alfred Castro) heads the “Yes” team.

When screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, No won the Art Cinema Award, the top prize in the Directors' Fortnight section.

Pablo Larraín was born in 1976 in Santiago, Chile. In 2003, Larraín co-founded with his brother Juan de Dios Larraín the production company Fabula, through which he develops his cinematic and advertising projects and to support the work of international directors.
Larraín directed his first feature film Fuga in 2005. It was released in 2006 and won international acclaim.

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