My Imaginary Country documents a new kind of grassroots protest, one in which every participant is also a citizen journalist; in which police and army atrocities are captured by a hundred phone cameras.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2023

It is a frozen image of a point in time; a graceful snapshot of change in motion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2023

All the ingredients here are invaluable, and the film’s vision comes alive with a real sense of hope about the soul of Chile and its thirst for change that’s palpable, not imaginary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2023

You can feel how awed Guzmán is by these young people – chiefly, in fact, young women – and the vast populist force they summoned up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2023

Testament to his curiosity as a storyteller, as Guzmán investigates the macro issues, he also pays close attention to details that may seem irrelevant, but that expand our understanding of how this breaking point injected renewed hope into the citizenry.

| Sep 29, 2022

While this is a first-person documentary, with the director providing voice-over narration, it expresses a poignant humility and a patient willingness to listen.

| Sep 22, 2022

Reflective but not overbearing, Guzmán gets out of the way of his subjects, ceding the spotlight to new generations and marvelling at their good works.

| Sep 19, 2022

With unassuming, generous elegance, the Chilean doc master finds hope and political optimism in his homeland's 2019 protest movement.

| Jun 14, 2022

The movie isn’t encouraging folks to be violent. Guzmán informs viewers that change is possible, but it must be on a united front.

| Jun 10, 2022

Patricio Guzmán’s documentary leaves open the possibility of a future for Chileans that isn’t beholden to the trauma of history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2022