Within the framework of Memory Week for a new anniversary of the beginning of the last civic-military dictatorship, Usina Lumiton, in the Buenos Aires town of Munro, offers a selection of films related to the subject for free and online with the intention of to “contribute to the construction” of “future, identity and sovereignty”.
“Through this selection of essential films we remember the 30,000 disappeared, the grandchildren found and still wanted, we say Never Again”, invites a statement from Lumiton Musina del Cine Usina Audiovisual, which offers the films until April 3 on its website www.lumiton.ar.
The first of the chosen films is “La casa de Argüello” (2019), a documentary by Valentina Llorens.
“The bones of a person who disappeared in the last Argentine military dictatorship are found,” says the synopsis. His restitution to the family opens a wound. Through four generations of women in the family, new layers are opened, where the pain of what has been lived takes on a new form: Nelly, her family saga and the pain of having lost two of her children; Fatima, the fact of having been a political prisoner; Valentina, (director of the documentary), her birth behind bars and the long road to meet her mother Fátima; Frida, Valentina’s daughter, witnesses the fact that she moves the family”.
It is followed by “Lamb of God” (2008), by Lucía Cedrón, with Mercedes Morán, Jorge Marrale and Leonora Balcarce among other figures. Its plot takes place in 2002, when Arturo, a 77-year-old veterinarian, is kidnapped in the midst of the economic crisis. Her granddaughter Guillermina, 30, must negotiate with the kidnappers and for that she asks for help from her mother, Teresa, who lives in exile in France.
The traumatic episode of the present will discover for Guillermina what her grandfather’s intervention was like in 1978 in the liberation of her mother.
Finally, “Los del suelo” (2015), by Juan Baldana, with Lautaro Delgado Tymuk and María Canale, follows Remo and Irmina, militants from the agrarian leagues who survive military persecution by taking refuge in Mount Chaqueño. There they give birth to their daughter, who is kidnapped by the military. Now they must decide whether to go into exile or fight to get it back.
In addition, within this framework, tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the York Cinema, at Alberdi 895 in the Buenos Aires town of Olivos, “Argentina, 1985”, the film by Santiago Miter about the Trial of the Boards that has just been nominated Oscar for Best International Film. In that case it can also be viewed for free on a first-come, first-served basis.
Source: Ambito
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