NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT Moving documentary from acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman April 22, 2011

For his new film, master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries capturing the history and politics of Chile (The Battle Of Chile, Salvador Allende, The Pinochet Case), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth. Atop the mountains of the Atacama Desert, astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama Desert is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, “disappeared” by the Chilean army after the military coup of September 11, 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families’ histories. Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the Chilean women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey.
http://icarusfilms.com/new2011/nost.html

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"An extraordinary film about the unknown and the unknowable." —Sight & Sound Magazine

"Stunningly beautiful. I don’t know how you can put more into a film, or make one that’s more deeply moving." —Stuart Klawans, The Nation

"Such a moving masterpiece... NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is Guzmán's leap into a different sort of cinema: a philosophical treatise that is as stunning to the eye as it is disturbing to the brain... I was enthralled. So was the audience around me." —B. Ruby Rich, SF360

"NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT may just be the most profound movie I have ever seen." —Peter Howell, Toronto Star

Winner Best Documentary, Prix ARTE, 2010 European Film Academy Awards
Winner Best Documentary, 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Official Selection, 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection, 2011 San Francisco International Film Festival
Official Selection, 2011 Miami International Film Festival
Official Selection, 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival

The film’s running time is 90 minutes; it is not rated. In Spanish; fully subtitled in English