Travel 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, Chile’s Atacama Desert, where astronomers from all over the world gather to gaze up to the stars. As their telescopes scan the skies for new galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women search the sands for traces of their sons, daughters, husbands—part of the thousands of political prisoners "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime in the 1970s. Melding his country’s hidden history to the secrets of the cosmos, Chilean auteur Patricio Guzmán’s landmark first entry in his Chile Trilogy is a magical and moving exploration of historical memory, eternity and the search for the unknown.

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The Chile Trilogy: On the release of Patricio Guzmán’s new Cannes Award winner, The Cordillera of Dreams, we present all three films in the Chilean master’s powerful triptych connecting Chile’s awe-inspiring landscapes to its unresolved past.