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The Pearl Button (2015)

The Pearl Button (2015)

Documentary
Release Date: 2015, October 15
Directors: Patricio Guzmán
Countries: Switzerland, Chile, Spain, France
Production: France 3 Cinéma, Ciné+, Mediapro, Atacama Productions, Valdivia Film, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, CNC, RTS, France Télévisions, WDR
Cast: Gabriel Salazar, Raúl Zurita, Javier Rebolledo, Martín G. Calderón, Gabriela Paterito, Cristina Calderón, Adil Brkovic, Juan Molina, Emma Malig

Overview:

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Keywords:

genocide button concentration camp water dictatorship indigenous peoples colonization south america chile british colonialism colonialism indigenous patagonia cultural genocide political prisoners settler colonialism kawésqar