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Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (August 11, 1941 – September 15, 2026) was a Chilean documentary and feature film director, and screenwriter. He is most known for his film trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975–1979) and more recently for another trilogy; Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Pearl Button (2015) and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019).
Guzmán also taught documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America, and was the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS). He lived in France. His 1983 film The Compass Rose was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2015 film The Pearl Button screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for his 2010 film Nostalgia for the Light. Guzmán died from cardiorespiratory arrest on September 15, 2026, at a hospital in Paris. He was 85.
As director
My Imaginary Country
The Cordillera of Dreams
The Pearl Button
Nostalgia for the Light
Chile, a Galaxy of Problems
Astronomers From My Neighborhood
José Maza, Sky Traveller
María Teresa and the Brown Dwarf
Oscar Saa, Technician of the Stars
My Jules Verne
Salvador Allende
Madrid
The Pinochet Case
Robinson Crusoe Island
Chile: Obstinate Memory
Barriers of Solitude
Pueblo en vilo
The Southern Cross
En nombre de Dios
The Compass Rose
The Battle of Chile: Part III
The Battle of Chile: Part II
The Battle of Chile: Part I
The First Year
Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo
Mimbre y Greda
Electro show
Viva la libertad
