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It recounts the prison experiences of political prisoners during the last Argentine dictatorship and questions the laws of due obedience and the final point.

Documentary film about the life of Neuquén bishop Jaime de Nevares.

The words of the Río Turbio miners and their wives. A testimony to human dignity, shaped by a past of sacrifice and an uncertain future.

In December 1977, two French nuns, Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet, were kidnapped in Buenos Aires by a squad of commandos from the Argentinean Navy. They were held and tortured at the ESMA - the School of Naval Engineering and were never seen again. Moving tale based on letters Alice Domon sent to her family and friends back home as well as on the testimony of many friends in Argentina who remember her humanity and courage. She shared the lives of those in need, helped heeling their sick and bringing in their crops. And she raised their political awareness - which brought her to the attention of the regime. A film retracing recent history that is by no means in the past.

Argentinean singer and tango legend Ada Falcón disappeared without a trace in 1942 at the height of her career. This is the story of how she was located sixty years later, living in an unexpected way, in an unexpected place.

In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing together her memories and fantasies in a quest to understand her parents' untimely fate.

Documentary about the group H.I.J.O.S. (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Oblivion and Silence).

This film is the story of tracking a filming from which its director is interrogated by the crosses between the cinema, reality, ghosts and death. Edgardo Cozarinsky Films in Buenos Aires at night, the story of a taxi-boy who faces the death embodied in former lovers. Guarini discovers the scenes and the daily life of this filming. Her rejection of the "making off" format, leads her to doubt the way forward.

In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on the 30th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of this film was hidden away on a fragile VHS tape for twenty years. Today, these images come to life and shed some light on the life of this Latin American poet and master filmmaker, who, at the age of 92, still refused to give up on his own utopias.

The way a group of police journalists track and obtain information for their work.

D-Humanos is a choral project coordinated by Pablo Nisenson in which nine filmmakers participate and aim to reflect, in an equal number of short films, the state of human rights in Argentina today.

“The grid of squares works like memory. We have clear memories, fuzzy memories, and some non-memories.” With this simple statement, the plastic artist Jorge González Perrin tirelessly begins to explain to anyone who wants to listen, the technique he developed together with the Arte Memoria collective.

Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic World March of Women was a bold initiative of the Québec Federation of Women and represented a turning point in global solidarity. Director Sophie Bissonnette invited five filmmakers from around the world to cover the march. She also asked each one to film an innovative project. Set against the backdrop of a song, 'A Score for Women's Voices' ends at the UN, where women deliver 5 million cards signed during the marches. Their goal? To change the world.

Monica contracted polio at age seven, during one of the national epidemics in 1957. Although the disease confined her to a wheelchair, with great difficulty moving her four limbs, Monica has worked as a private English teacher and, more importantly, has been the mother of a daughter who is now 15. After the birth of her daughter, Monica felt the need and the impulse to make a documentary about her "colleagues," mothers in similar situations, a task she undertook with the help of her documentary filmmaker husband.