France's Pompidou Centre to Host the Largest-Ever Exhibit of Chilean Documentary in September

The prestigious Pompidou Centre has announced the retrospective film series ‘Chile, Obstinate Cinema’ (‘Chili, cinéma obstiné’), which marks the largest exhibition ever of non-fiction films from the South American country. The series, screening over 50 documentary films made between 1958 and 2020, was planned for April this year, but was rescheduled due to the global pandemic. It will symbolically open on September 11th, the day of the 1973 coup d'é·tat that drastically changed the course of the country.

The three-month retrospective is organized by the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information du Centre Pompidou in Paris, with collaboration from La Cinémathèque du Documentaire, curation by Harm Pietr Bos. The inaugural film will be Carlos Araya Díaz’s Space Journey / El viaje espacial, winner of the Best Film Award at the past edition of FIDOCS, the Santiago International Documentary Festival, and it will include titles such as Nostalgia for the Light (2010), Calle Santa Fe (2007), Surire (2015), The Grown-Ups (2016), and the epic landmark film The Battle of Chile, Part I, II and III (1975-1978).

Among the featured filmmakers are Patricio Guzmán, Carmen Castillo, Raúl Ruiz, and Ignacio Agüero. The series will also feature the work of younger filmmakers such as Maite Alberdi, Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut, Tiziana Panizza, Teresa Arredondo, Francisco Hervé, and Marcela Said.

For complete lineup visit https://cinemathequedudocumentairebpi.fr/cycle/chili-cinema-obstine/.