The Cannes Film Festival announced today some additional titles for the lineup for its upcoming 75th edition, including the world premiere of My Imaginary Country / Mi país imaginario, the latest film by Chilean master documentarian Patricio Guzmán, which will be exhibited out of competition as a special screening.
Guzmán returns to the French film festival after he premiered there his 2019 documentary The Cordillera of Dreams / La cordillera de los sueños, the third and last part of his acclaimed Chilean landscape-and-memory trilogy (with Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button), which won The Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary at Cannes.
In his latest film, Guzmán documents the recent history of Chile, including the social unrest that started in October 19 that lead to rewrite of the constitution of the South American country. My Imaginary Country features the testimonies of journalist Mónica González, feminist collective Las Tesis, Mapuche constituent Elisa Loncón, writer and actress Nona Fernández, photographer Nicole Kramm and political scientist Claudia Heiss, among others.
“This is a different film because it is what Patricio saw when he returned to Chile: female voices that spoke with urgency, new leadership and a totally different country,” said Alexandra Galvis, producer of the film for a Chilean newspaper. “He has filmed the most important events in our history for 50 years. It is difficult to forget that the same director who made The Battle of Chile is the one who now has a particular vision of what is happening.”
The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place May 18-28 in France.
