THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS

Patricio Guzmán, who has been one of South America's premier documentarians for fifty years, concludes his essay film trilogy about the natural wonders and history of his lost homeland of Chile. With the Atacama desert and the great waterways done he now turns to the majestic Andes mountain range that both isolate the country from its neighbours and invite reflections about Chilean politics and Guzmán's own biography. This brilliant mixture of the poetic with the personal was awarded as the best documentary at Cannes.