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One of the leading voices in Latin American documentary cinema, Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán was born in Santiago in 1941. He studied philosophy and film in Chile and Spain, where he graduated from the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía de Madrid. After returning to Chile in 1971, he made “El Primer Año” (1971), about the first months of Salvador Allende’s government. Following the 1973 coup d’état, he was arrested and left the country, taking with him some of the footage he had shot for “The Battle of Chile” (1975-1979, 3rd Mostra), a documentary trilogy about Allende’s government and its downfall. In exile, he lived in Cuba, Spain, and later France. His major films include “En Nombre de Dios” (1987), “Chile, la Memoria Obstinada” (1997), “The Pinochet Case” (2001, 25th Mostra), “Salvador Allende” (2004), “Nostalgia for the Light” (2010, 34th Mostra), “The Pearl Button” (2015, 39th Mostra), winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, “The Cordillera of Dreams” (2019), winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, and “My Imaginary Country” (2022). In 1997, he founded the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS). He received the Humanity Award at the 39th Mostra in 2015 and Chile’s National Prize for Arts in 2023. Patricio Guzmán died in Paris in 2026.