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¿QUIÉN SOY YO ? (WHO AM I? THE FOUND CHILDREN OF ARGENTINA)
Directed by Estela Bravo
Best Latin American Documentary, International Latin American Film Festival, Havana, Cuba, 2007
What does it feel like to suddenly discover that your parents are not actually your parents, but part of a network of military criminals who murdered your mother and father? Or that your mother gave birth to you one minute and was killed the next? Or that as a young child you were kidnapped and given to friends of those who tortured and killed your parents? And then to find your true family? The children of Argentina's disappeared are now young adults struggling with such complex and traumatic discoveries. For three decades, the Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers have been searching for their 500 stolen grandchildren, the children of their own children who disappeared in Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83). To date, 88 of these missing children have been found and have recovered their true identity. WHO AM I? tells their story.
"Award-winning director Estela Bravo's most moving documentary." –The Guardian
"With no commentary besides the words of the victims and their unrepentant tormentors, it held to light the absolute extremes of which humanity is capable." –Andrew Billen, The Times
"WHO AM I? offers no happy ending or closure–there are still 400 children missing–but finishes with a message of hope." –Simon Smythe, More 4
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NOMADAK TX
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Named 2nd of the Top 20 best documentaries of the last 20 years by the International Documentary Foundation; Winner at Guadalajara, San Sebastián, and Silverdocs.
Nomadak TX tells the story of two Basque musicians moving across the globe with their unique musical instrument, the txalaparta. As they travel to India, Lapland, the Sahara and Mongolia, they fuse their musical tradition with that of the locals. Our musicians - Igor and Harkaitz - travel across long deserts, frozen wastelands and treacherous mountains in search of the sound that creates culture. Ultimately they find a space where are all people come together.
GRISI SIKNIS
By Enrique Ruiz-Skipey
Nicaragua, 2008, 100 minutes
“An epidemic of collective madness is affecting the Miskito communities of the banks at Coco River. Twenty people are suffering the disease and many of them are lost in the mountain where they ran as the result of the state of madness this strange disturbance is causing them”
“Those affected grab poles, machetes, anything they may find, and attack people, destroy their homes and fields, after which they run away and get lost in the mountains, or even drown in the river...”
A frightening documentary that analyzes for the very first time an unknown and supernatural disease, about which no one has been able to arise a logic explanation on its causes and origin. Is it the spirits protesting about how Nature is being destroyed while they posses the mind of the natives? Is it a disease caused by the cultural clash of a rushed and late colonization? Are we just witnessing fraud in relation with black magic?
All these aspects are analyzed in this interesting, curious and surprising documentary that shows for the very first time cruel images of the terrible and spine-creeping effects of the disease and its treatment.