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Madres: la historia de las madres de plaza de mayo

DIR. Eduardo Félix Walger Documentary (18+) ARGENTINA 2007 98 MINS

The white scarves of the ‘Mothers of the Disappeared’ are a universal symbol of the struggle for human rights. MOTHERS is an engaging documentary about a group of Argentinian women who have banded together since the 1970s when their children were kidnapped by the military government during the dirty war.

The love for their absent children led them to overcome their fears and move into the political and economic centre of the country, confronting a totalitarian and brutal power unarmed. Today they preserve the identity of their sons with their cry “30,000 detained disappeared, present, now and always”.

In this moving documentary, the mothers speak of a determination to uncover what happened to their children through touching interviews.

Archival footage lets us witness the drift of a country from the idyllic Evita years to state terrorism based on the forced disappearance of people.

Film to be accompanied with a photographic exhibition.

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