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
Renowned Chilean documentary film-maker, Patricio Guzmán, will be honoured at the 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. “The Hot Docs Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has chosen masterful Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán... 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
It’ll soon be that time of year again when the best in world documentary filmmaking converges on Santiago for one of the Chilean capital’s most diverse and enthralling film festivals. The Santiago Festival of International Documentary (or FIDOCS... 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
The Battle of Chile, subtitled La Lucha De Un Pueblo Sin Armas (The Fight Of An Unarmed People) by Chilean documentary film-maker Patricio Guzman, is a classic. It’s a portrayal of the rise and fall of the presidency... 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
The alternative film circuit in Santiago is a pretty lively place to be these days, thanks to several annual festivals and a number of independent cinemas which focus on arthouse and world cinema that is ignored by the... Read Article
