# Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

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**Original title**: *Nostalgia de la luz*
**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Documentary
**Directed by**: Patricio Guzmán
**Written by**: Patricio Guzmán
**Starring**: Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel, Victor Gonzalez, Vicky Saaveda

> *Astronomers and Archaeologists - Two sides of the same coin*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The arid Atacama Desert houses both stargazers charting cosmic dawn and women pawing through sand for the bones of Pinochet’s disappeared. This juxtaposition of science and memory asks which light restores the past. The desert itself becomes the film’s enduring witness.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, cerebral, slow-burn

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