"Director: Patricio Guzmán"

• Nostalgia For The Light | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth. Atop its mountains, astronomers gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent they can see right to the boundaries of the universe.It is also a place where the heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners disappeared by the Chilean army after the military coup of September 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, surviving relatives of the 'disappeared', search for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families' histories.Gradually the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the Chilean women come together.

• The Pearl Button | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £1.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (703.52%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After the acclaimed Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la Luz, 2010), with its study of the desert, the stars, light and time, as well as the recent memory and remains of disappeared people in North Chile under Pinochet, Patricio Guzmán takes us on a journey into the water and ocean of Southern Chile. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people and their tragic history, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film gives it a voice. Using both archival images and gorgeous new footage, The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) manages once again to convey different periods of history and geography in a gripping tale of our modern world.

• Nostalgia For The Light | Blu Ray | (22/10/2012) from £9.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (116.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth. Atop its mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama Desert is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners disappeared by the Chilean army after the military coup of September 11 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies at the foot of the mountains women surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here search even after twenty-five years for the remains of their loved ones to reclaim their families histories. Gradually the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the Chilean women come together. Special Features: Chile - a galaxy of problems Oscar Saa Technician of the Stars José Maza Sky Traveller Maria Teresa and the Brown Dwarf Astronomers from my Neighbourhood Trailer