Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light) (Free Entry)

This screening will be introduced by Rosie Hays, Australian Cinémathèque.

An exquisite slice of storytelling, Nostalgia for the Light is part cosmic musing, part scientific wonder and part historical reckoning all seeped in the deep thinking and eloquent filmmaking of brilliant Chilean director Patricio Guzman. The Atacama Desert in Chile is a place like no other. Its dry and remote landscape holds multilayered and vastly different histories and meanings. It is the site of three interconnected searches into the past: astronomers study distant stars and solar systems located billions of years ago, archaeologists exhume and study carefully preserved human remains and artefacts from the desert, and a group of women search for Chile’s desaparecidos, loved ones assassinated during Pinochet’s 17-year military dictatorship, whose bodies are believed to have been scattered in the desert. This extraordinary documentary unites this desire to connect with the past by balancing that which is personal and defines one’s experience of the world, and the larger narrative of how and why we remember.

Ages 12+ | Contains mature themes