Alcides Chiesa

Between 1976 and 1982 thousands of citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in Argentina. How do Argentinians cope with this tragedy? How do they elaborate their recent past?

The film is the confrontation of archival material rescued from the television news of the last military dictatorship in Argentina between the years that go from 1976 to 1983 and the documentary tour to different places in the City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires , Córdoba, Tucumán and Neuquén, in the so-called Clandestine Detention Centers (CCD).

The film is the confrontation of archival material rescued from the television news of the last military dictatorship in Argentina between the years that go from 1976 to 1983 and the documentary tour to different places in the City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires , Córdoba, Tucumán and Neuquén, in the so-called Clandestine Detention Centers (CCD).

A young father takes his son on a journey away from Buenos Aires and through the strange and wondrous world of rural South America. The man is unemployed and separated from the boy's mother. The trip teaches the man to rediscover both the world outside urban Argentina, and also to rediscover his son.

A young father takes his son on a journey away from Buenos Aires and through the strange and wondrous world of rural South America. The man is unemployed and separated from the boy's mother. The trip teaches the man to rediscover both the world outside urban Argentina, and also to rediscover his son.

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.

Between 1976 and 1982 thousands of citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in Argentina. How do Argentinians cope with this tragedy? How do they elaborate their recent past?

Between 1976 and 1982 thousands of citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in Argentina. How do Argentinians cope with this tragedy? How do they elaborate their recent past?

Short film by Jeanine Meerapfel and Alcides Chiesa

Short film by Jeanine Meerapfel and Alcides Chiesa

Documentary about Tito Ingenieri, a man from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Quilmes, sculptor and craftsman, dedicated to blacksmithing and glass. Tito has the particularity of having built his house with glass bottles. Thousands and thousands of bottles of different shapes and colors that refract the south wind and the sun's rays.

Documentary about Tito Ingenieri, a man from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Quilmes, sculptor and craftsman, dedicated to blacksmithing and glass. Tito has the particularity of having built his house with glass bottles. Thousands and thousands of bottles of different shapes and colors that refract the south wind and the sun's rays.

Rob, a young Berliner, travels to Iberá, that place about which so many legends are told, in search of his roots, but instead of exoticism, he finds misery.

Rob, a young Berliner, travels to Iberá, that place about which so many legends are told, in search of his roots, but instead of exoticism, he finds misery.

Short documentary about artist Manuel Oliveira.