According to Cooperativa, the feature documentary "Cobija", by director Pamela Pequeño, premieres this Thursday, October 29, at 18:45 at Centro Arte Alameda in Santiago (Arturo Prat 33). The source did not report the ticket price.
The film runs just over an hour. It tells the story of Cobija, a port in the municipality of Tocopilla, in the Antofagasta Region.
The site was Chango territory, belonging to the coastal people who inhabited the northern coastline. It briefly flourished during the nitrate era and passed from Bolivian to Chilean control during the War of the Pacific. Today, a small community of fishermen lives there.
Pequeño connects her family history with that of the port, gathers accounts from its residents and follows the search for a lost treasure. With a poetic tone, the film explores memory, identity and the passage of time.
"I spent my childhood summers in this remote corner of the Atacama Desert. I immersed myself in its wild natural surroundings and fell in love with the uniqueness of its community," the filmmaker explained. In 2014, she decided to return and, in her words, found a place that "had barely changed, with its magic intact".
"Cobija" was screened at festivals in Chile and abroad, including Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse in France, which is dedicated to Latin American cinema.
In addition to screenings at Centro Arte Alameda, the commercial release in Santiago includes screenings at the Ñuñoa House of Culture and Sala K. Dates and times for those screenings were not reported.
After its run in the capital, the documentary will be screened on November 28 in the same area where it was filmed.
