The Pearl Button

This film tells Chile’s story with two buttons. The first, a small button taken from the seabed and fixed to the surface of a rusty rail. The only object bearing witness to the fate of one of the hundreds of missing pearls tied to a piece of iron and flung into the sea. The second, a pearl button gifted by Captain Fitzroy to Jimmy Button in 1830. Two buttons that explain the same story.

 

Winner of multiple awards, including the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at Berlinale