In Argentina, there are judicial cases that marked society and caused controversy. The “Bethlehem” is one of them. The young Tucumana, whose real name remains in reserve, was arrested in 2014 after suffering a spontaneous abortion and ended up accused of homicide. It spent almost three years imprisoned until the Tucumán Supreme Court acquitted it in 2017.
Now, that story returns to the scene with Nativity scene, the new film directed and starring Fonzi Dolores. The film reaches theaters with an outstanding cast and promises to put a debate on the table that shook Argentine society: The criminalization of women’s bodies.
Beyond its judicial side, the case is also intertwined with the years of greatest effervescence of the feminist movement in the country, which led to the Historical claim for legal abortion.
What is “Belén”, the new Dolores Fonzi movie
The film, which Fonzi co -wrote with Laura Paredes, is Inspired by the book Somos Belén, by Ana Correawith prologue by Margaret Atwood. The protagonist, played by Camila Pláate, is a young woman who arrives urgently to the hospital with strong abdominal pain and ends up after a spontaneous abortion.
In the script, Fonzi embodies Soledad Deza, the Tucumana lawyer He assumed his defense, while Paredes plays one of his colleagues. The cast is completed with figures such as Luis Machín, Julieta Cardinali and César Troncoso, in addition to tucuman talents that provide realism and freshness to the plot.
He Film will debut in Salas on September 18before competing in the San Sebastián Festival and to be released in Amazon Prime Video. According to Fonzi, the idea was to build a work that worked as much as Judicial drama as a human story about solidarity and activism.
The real case that inspired the film Belén
The story began on March 21, 2014, when “Belén”, 25, entered the Avellaneda hospital in San Miguel de Tucumán with intense abdominal pains. Over there suffered a hemorrhage and underwent a curettage. Shortly after, without understanding everything that happened, She was accused of having caused an abortion and having killed the baby.
The tests were weak: There was no clear DNA analysis or expert opinions. Even so, she was sentenced to Eight years in prison. It remained almost 900 days arrested until, thanks to the work of lawyer Soledad Deza and the social pressure headed by feminist organizations, the cause was reopened.
His case became a flag of the movement that years later would boost the Not one less and the Campaign for legal, safe and free abortionapproved in 2020. In the midst of that wave, Bethlehem recovered his freedom and his name was recorded as a symbol of the struggle of pregnant bodies.
What’s the life of “Belén” today
Since it was acquitted, Belén decided to keep the profile low. Keep anonymity as a personal protection form And familiar, although its story continues to circulate in talks, classrooms and books.
Today he lives away from the flashes, trying to rebuild a life that was marked by stigma. It does not grant interviews and avoids publicly exposed, but its fictional name continues to be invoked in marches, university classrooms and debates on reproductive rights.
Source: Ambito
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