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From The Fanlight Collection
Awakening from Sorrow: Buenos Aires 1997

A Film by John Knoop & Karina Epperlein

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AWAKENING FROM SORROW is about a crucial moment in history when the grief of young Argentines - whose parents disappeared and were tortured and killed during the 'Dirty War' (Argentina's dictatorship organized mass killings of civilian dissidents during the 1970s until 1983) erupts into public action, and becomes a cornerstone for social movements from South America to Serbia. Until these young people began to organize and demand explanations from their government, the predominant coping strategy has been to pretend that the missing are still alive. This film documents the power to transform pain into action to lift the veil of repression that has gripped a generation of young people.

The film's voices are woven into a "tapestry of remembrance" questioning and pushing for justice, accountability and resolution from all angles. They include: Nobel Prize- winner Perez Esquivel, history professor Wolfgang Bayer, death camp survivor Graciela Deleo, and the infamous Captain Adolpho Scilingo who admits to having ordered the dropping of dissidents from a naval cargo plane into the Atlantic Ocean.

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When a dictatorship ends and democracy takes over many people are left with not just physical but emotional scars. The expressionistic and moving drawings of the "HIJOS" (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence) together with original music by cellist Beth Vandervennet help to highlight a universal story. The atrocities committed by the state against its own people take a long time to heal and the young people's courage gives hope to us all.

"Chilling in scope and effect."—San Francisco Chronicle

"…a commendable documentary. This film is slightly unique in the sense that the story is being told from the perspective of the children of the Disappeared. …achieves its mission by giving the voiceless a voice to expose the atrocities of the Dirty War."—Educational Media Reviews Online

2009 Mill Valley Film Festival
2010 Charleston Film Festival
2010 Newport Beach Film Festival
2011 Western Psychological Association Conference

40 minutes / Color
Release: 2010
Copyright: 2009

For colleges, universities, government agencies, hospitals and corporations

This DVD is sold with a license for institutional use and Public Performance rights.

Subject areas:
Adolescence, Anthropology, Conflict Resolution, Cultural Anthropology, Fanlight Collection, History (World), Human Rights, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Politics, Social Movements, South America, US & Canadian Broadcast Rights

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