Patricio Guzmán
- Directing
- August 11, 1941 · Santiago, Chile
- September 15, 2026
Biography
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (August 11, 1941 – September 15, 2026) was a Chilean documentary and feature film director, and screenwriter. He is most known for his film trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975–1979) and more recently for another trilogy; Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Pearl Button (2015) and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019). Guzmán also taught documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America, and was the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS). He lived in France. His 1983 film The Compass Rose was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2015 film The Pearl Button screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for his 2010 film Nostalgia for the Light. Guzmán died from cardiorespiratory arrest on September 15, 2026, at a hospital in Paris. He was 85.
Known for
Filmography
- O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2 · Self
- Film: The Living Record of Our Memory · Self
- My Imaginary Country · Self, Director
- Nas Asas da Pan Am · Self
- The Cordillera of Dreams · Director, Screenplay
- Santiago, Italia · Self
- The Pearl Button · Narrator (Voice), Director
- Luc Moullet (et Patricio Guzmán) à Manosque III
- Mentiras verdaderas · Self
- Nostalgia for the Light · Director, Writer
- Chile, a Galaxy of Problems · Director
- José Maza, Sky Traveller · Director, Screenplay
- Astronomers From My Neighborhood · Director, Writer
- María Teresa and the Brown Dwarf · Director
- Oscar Saa, Technician of the Stars · Director
- The battle of Chile · Director
- Capturing Reality · Self
- My Jules Verne · Director
- Salvador Allende · Self, Director
- Madrid · Director, Writer
- The Pinochet Case · Director
- La bataille du Chili · Production Executive, Creator
- Invocación · Co-Director
- Los Jaivas en Sacsayhuamán · Editing
- Robinson Crusoe Island · Director, Sound
- Chile: Obstinate Memory · Self, Director
- Barriers of Solitude · Director, Writer
- Pueblo en vilo · Director, Screenplay
- The Southern Cross · Director
- Moon Over Parador · Family Member
- En nombre de Dios · Director
- The Compass Rose · Director
- The Battle of Chile: Part III · Director, Screenplay
- The Battle of Chile: Part II · Director, Writer
- The Battle of Chile: Part I · Director, Screenplay
- The First Year · Screenplay, Director
- Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo · Screenplay, Director
- Electro show · Director, Screenplay
- Mimbre y Greda · Director, Screenplay
- Viva la libertad · Director