Spider (Spanish: Araña) is a 2019 political thriller film directed by Andrés Wood and written by Guillermo Calderón.
[1] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
[2] It was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Inés (22), along with her husband Justo (28) and their best friend Gerardo (23), are members of Fatherland and Liberty, a violent paramilitary group with nationalist and neo-fascist ideological orientation that committed multiple terrorist acts with the purpose of overthrowing the left-wing government of the Popular Unity in the early 1970s.
Together, they commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and, in the process, involves them in a great betrayal that separates them forever.