Argentineans View
Found Children
The documentary "Los "Niños
Encontrados de
Argentina," dedicated to
the work by the
grandmothers of Plaza de
Mayo to rescue their
grandchildren's
identity, was premiered
on Thursday before a
full auditorium.
Director Estela Bravo,
born in the United
States, who has devoted
44 years to filming the
Latin American reality,
presented the finished
work after several
efforts.
She called that her
first work, in 1984,
about missing children
in Argentina by the last
military dictatorship,
1976-1983, served to the
grandmothers as a
testimony to denounce
the crimes committed.
In that context,
Grandmothers' president
Estela de Carlotto
proposed that she do a
testimonial about the
found grandchildren,
which she began in 1986
and continued in 2006,
concluding this year
with this documentary.
The film details the
grandmothers' work to
return to their
grandchildren their true
identity, because they
were children of people
who disappeared during
the dictatorship who
were given, most of
them, to the repressors
themselves.
The perversity of
attempts to eliminate
all evidence of the
crime, the 30,000
missing people in
Argentina with 500
children who lost their
identities, is movingly
shown in the film.
The theater was filled
with grandmothers and
their found
grandchildren, those
continuing the search,
grown children now
involved in the cause,
some few parents who
survived and those who
collaborated in making
the film, spanning
several generations. |
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