In the frame of the 12th edition of the Month of Documentary, during November 2011:
Every wednesday at 7 p.m.
in cooperation with the Embassy of France in Albania
Filming the invisible
screening ‘Nostalgia de la luz‘ by Patricio Guzman
90 min – Documentary – France/Germany/Chile – 2010
in Spanish with English subtitles
In Chile, at three thousand meters altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather together in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of the mummies, explorers and miners. But also the remains of the dictatorship’s political prisoners. Whilst the astronomers examine the most distant galaxies in search of probable extraterrestrial life, at the foot of the observatories a group of women are digging through the desert soil in search of their disappeared relatives…
Entrée Libre – Hyrja e Lire – Free Entrance – Eintritt Frei – Entrada Libre
