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RESULTS 2015sElECtion of projECts154/FIDocS - Reality in a FestivaljAViEr yustEEL CULTURAL | 21/09/2015Chile’s International Documentary Film Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS) celebrates its 19th edition with a programme that includes the Spanish director Hermes Paralluelo.“Documentary lmmaking is one of the layers making up the gigantic atmosphere of the Earth,” says, somewhat mystically, the lm director Patricio Guzmán. He is the name behind such poetic and solid documentaries as Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la Luz), released in 2010. He also founded one of Latin America’s most important documentary lm events, Chile’s International Documentary Film Festival of Santiago. From 22-27 September, the 19th edition of the event takes place andis divided into four categories —Latin America, Nationa, Short Films and First Cut— and aims to bring tradition and the vanguard together at the ve venues around the Chilean capital, Santiago.“ is festival’s work consists in exhibition and contemplation through lms creating tension of language that cuts through our sight and sound habits,” explains Carlos Flores, festival director: “What really characterises FIDOCS is its e orts to bring together tradition and the vanguard; stability and experimentation; its capacity to make us visualise the return of a disappeared world and sketches of a new one yet to come.”A key roles is played at one of the events by the festival’s founder, Patricio Guzmán. is director, now in his seventies, will present the rst showing in his countryof birth, of the documentary e Pearl Button (El botón de nácar), a that won the Siver Bear award for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale. e lm constitutes the second part of the trilogy that kicked o with