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NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ [NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT]
by Patricio Guzmán
Chile/France/Germany 2010 HDCAM 90 min. Span. OV Engl. ST

sat 20 nov 17.30 h Caligari FilmBühne <Tickets>

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A documentary-essay, turning into a poetic parable on astronomy and Chile’s history of the past 50 years. The film fascinates by the author’s texts, the fantastic desert and images of Chilean nightly skies. The Atacama desert hosts one of the most well-known observatories worldwide, as the conditions there allow to see almost until the end of our universe. The scientists go back in history in order to find the latest lights in universe, which will tell them more about humankind’s future. Other than that the unique climate perfectly preserves human remains. While on the mountain astronomers research other galaxies, in the desert mothers dig for the remains of their sons, who disappeared during Pinochet’s dictatorship.

 
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