Patricio Guzmán

Chilean documentary film director (1941–2026)

Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (August 11, 1941 – September 15, 2026) was a Chilean documentary and feature film director and screenwriter, widely regarded as the leading figure of Chilean documentary cinema and one of the most influential nonfiction filmmakers in Latin America. He is best known for the trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975–1979), an epic account of the final year of Salvador Allende's government and the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, and for a later, more essayistic trilogy linking Chile's landscape to its unresolved history: Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Pearl Button (2015), and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019). Arrested after the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power, Guzmán smuggled his film footage out of Chile and spent the following decades in exile in Cuba, Spain, and France, from where he continued to make films almost exclusively about his homeland's history and its legacy of political violence.

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