Presented by Icarus Films and Cinema Tropical
An exploration of identity, history and landscape by acclaimed Chilean director Patricio Guzmán. In his latest philosophical act of cinematic self-reflection, the Andean Cordillera mountain range becomes an ark where the most important poetic laws are stored, containing the ruins of the director’s childhood memories and the acts of police brutality and civil resistance that happened under Pinochet’s dictatorship. Spectacular aerial images bring us into the Cordillera and the troubled history it continues to witness.
Cannes Film Festival: Oeil D'Or for Best Documentary and Satori Critics Prize
Best Documentary Nominee, César Awards
Official selection: DOC NYC, Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival
"Deeply personal. In this poetic documentary, Patricio Guzmán mediates on the past and future of his home country via the mountains that close it off from the rest of the world." - Sight & Sound
"Whatever the future holds for his native land, Guzmán's trilogy will have its place in their history." - POV Magazine
Screening as part of the series Patricio Guzmán, Dreaming of Utopia: 50 Years of Revolutionary Hope and Memory