Poster for the movie The Pearl Button

The Pearl Button

2015 • 82 minutes
Documentary

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.

Picture of Patricio Guzmán

Patricio Guzmán

Narrator (voice)

Picture of Martín G. Calderón

Martín G. Calderón

Self

Picture of Gabriela Paterito

Gabriela Paterito

Self

Picture of Gabriel Salazar

Gabriel Salazar

Self

Picture of Claudio Mercado

Claudio Mercado

Self

Picture of Raúl Zurita

Raúl Zurita

Self

Picture of Cristina Calderón

Cristina Calderón

Self

Picture of Adil Brkovic

Adil Brkovic

Self

Picture of Javier Rebolledo

Javier Rebolledo

Self

Picture of Juan Molina

Juan Molina

Self

Picture of Emma Malig

Emma Malig

Self (uncredited)