In Her Place

In Her Place (El lugar de la otra, 2024) is a Chilean crime drama from Maite Alberdi, ready to watch online on iFILM. Santiago, the mid-1950s: a well-known society novelist shoots her lover in the tearoom of a smart hotel, then calmly sits down to wait for the police, no panic at all.

The file lands at the courthouse where Mercedes works — a meek legal secretary used to vanishing behind paperwork and other people's stories. Sent to inventory the accused woman's sealed apartment, she starts trying on a different life: the books, the quiet, a room that answers to no one but her. Elisa Zulueta plays it almost wordlessly, letting envy curdle into something closer to obsession with a single look.

Alberdi made her name in documentary (The Mole Agent); this is her first scripted feature, drawn from the real 1955 trial of writer María Carolina Geel that gripped the country. The film isn't really about the killing — it's about a woman with nowhere to be herself. One for anyone who likes a hushed, precise thriller about freedom and a borrowed life. Stream In Her Place (2024) online on iFILM.