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The Pearl Button is a chilien film of genre Documentary directed by Patricio Guzmán released in USA on 23 october 2015 with Patricio Guzmán

The Pearl Button (2015)

El botón de nácar

The Pearl Button
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Released in USA 23 october 2015
Length 1h22
Directed by
OriginChili
Rating75% 3.78843.78843.78843.78843.7884

The Pearl Button (Spanish: El botón de nácar) is a 2015 Chilean documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Script.

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The filmmaker has described the film as part of a diptych with Nostalgia for the Light, exploring familiar Guzmán themes such as memory and the historical past, particularly of that of the history's "losers" rather than victors, as it documents the settlement of Chile’s Tierra del Fuego, including some of the last surviving descendants of the original Alacalufe and Yaghan inhabitants.

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Patricio Guzmán

(Narrator (voice))
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