The Pearl Button

The Pearl Button

82 mins | Documentary | Oct. 15, 2015

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. 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, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

The Pearl Button

82 mins | Documentary | Oct. 15, 2015

The Pearl Button
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. 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, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, France 3 Cinéma, France Télévisions, Ciné+, Mediapro, RTS, Atacama Productions, Valdivia Film, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes
Original title El botón de nácar
Directors Nicolás Lasnibat, Patricio Guzmán
Writers Patricio Guzmán

Cast

Patricio Guzmán

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Raúl Zurita

as Self

Gabriel Salazar

as Self

Claudio Mercado

as Self

Emma Malig

as Self