My Imaginary Country, which premiered to standing ovations at Cannes this year, is perhaps the documentary Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has always wanted to make. In 2019 Guzmán told me, ‘I express a longing for Chile to improve... Read Article
“The Indians of Patagonia believed that souls didn’t die and that they could live again as stars.” Five years after making Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán comes back to fascinate us again with the second in a... Read Article
Patricio Guzmán’s new documentary, The Pearl Button, is an exciting exploration of Patagonia and the connection of this land and sea with the history of the indigenous culture and the Chilean settlers. After travelling to the north to... Read Article
Icarus Films have announced that they will be releasing a special eight-disc box set collection called Five Films by Patricio Guzmán, which will (not surprisingly given the title) feature five of the master Chilean documentarian’s seminal works. Filmed... Read Article
The 2013 Santiago Festival of International Documentary (FIDOCS) once again saw a whole range of films coming to the Chilean capital. With close to one hundred films on show, the six-day event covered a vast range of themes... Read Article
For anyone interested in learning more about the Pinochet years in Chile, there are a whole host of documentaries, spanning the early stages of the dictatorship to the modern day, which dissect and examine distinct aspects of the... Read Article
If 2011 was a year of outstanding debuts in Argentine cinema, 2012 highlighted some of the exciting and diverse talent amongst its Latin American neighbours. Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Paraguay were amongst the countries producing some of the... Read Article
Patricio Guzmán is one of Latin America’s most extraordinary filmmakers. The director of more than a dozen documentaries, his films chronicle the recent political history of his native Chile, from the democratic socialism of the early 1970s through... Read Article
Nostalgia for the Light is a documentary by Chilean director Patricio Guzmán. It premiered as a special screening at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded the François Chalais Prize, given to the film “dedicated to... Read Article
There will be a London Premiere for Nostalgia for the Light, the new film from Patricio Guzman – and one that featured in many Best of 2011 lists – on February 2nd that will be followed by a... Read Article
