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The Cordillera of Dreams

La Cordillera de los sueños
Patricio Guzmán
France, Chile
2019
85 min
Dutch Premiere
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In the long and narrow country of Chile, the Andes are never far away—the mountain chain (cordillera) is the country’s rocky spine. In the closing part of his essayistic Chile trilogy director Patricio Guzmán analyzes the relationship between the impassive, timeless landscape and the tumultuous history of the country he has not lived in since 1973. Artists and intellectuals fled the country in droves following the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, who would remain the country’s dictator for many years.

Breathtaking panoramas of snow-capped mountains are accompanied by Guzmán’s own reflections in voice-over: the mountains both protect and isolate the country from the rest of the world. He interviews artists and scientists, among them cameraman Pablo Salas, who stayed behind in Chile and filmed all the protests, remaining a thorn in the regime’s side for all those years. Footage of violent police actions from Salas’s inexhaustible archive contrast with the serene natural scenes in which Guzmán intertwines his personal recollections with the broader narrative of Chile’s history. He also contemplates the fate of the new generation: can they dare to dream?

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Director
Co-production
    Market Chile,
    Sampek Productions
    Market Chile,
    Sampek Productions
Sound
Music
    Miranda & Tobar
    Miranda & Tobar
Involved TV Channel
    ARTE France
    ARTE France
World Sales
    Pyramide International
    Pyramide International
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Cinéart Nederland BV
    Cinéart Nederland BV
Screening copy
    Cinéart Nederland BV
    Cinéart Nederland BV

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