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Señorita Extraviada
Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman) unfolds like the unsolved mystery that it examines—the kidnapping, rape and murder of over 350 young women in Juárez, Mexico. Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, this haunting documentary unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed these brutal murders to continue just south of the US-Mexican border. Relying on what Portillo comes to see as the most reliable of sources—the testimonies of the families of the victims—Señorita Extraviada documents a two-year search for the truth in the underbelly of the new global economy. The result is a shocking and brutal portrait of Ciudad Juárez, "The City of the Future." (Official Website: lourdesportillo.com)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Espejos del corazón
Lourdes Portillo is a filmmaker of undoubted importance for Latin American nonfiction cinema. Her lucid filmography oscillates between documentary, experimental film and video art. Astutely inscribing herself to the genealogy of Third Cinema, she became a pioneer in the exploration of Latin American identity within and outside of the United States. Dealing with themes of extreme sociopolitical complexity and exploring them through a meticulous investigation guided by intuition and feeling, Lourdes’ work – which has documented situations from Argentina to California – carefully highlights the postcolonial relationalities that have emerged in the various societies that reside in the continent commonly referred to as the “Americas”. [...] This is a film in which Lourdes rerouted her experimentation towards the task of informing audiences in the United States about Bolivian, Dominican and Haitian societies and cultures. Portillo weaves together a documentary that is at once formally conventional while also defiant of the model in which it was produced due to its insightful social, political and aesthetic study. This documentary directly speaks of the consequences and changing contradictions that have occured in these territories due to European colonization and the neo-colonial process coming from the United States. Making use of a procedural approximation, she shows us the crystallized elements but also a point of demonstrating that we are witnessing cultures in the process of transformation and hybridization: presenting traits and fragments of who they were and who they will become. (Portillo, Lourdes. Interview with Eduardo Makoszay. Corrientes, Nov-Dec 2020, www.corrient.es/portillo-makoszay-eng) -
Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Las Madres: The Mothers of la Plaza de Mayo documents the courageous political actions of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of Argentine women who gather weekly at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to remember the children who "disappeared" during the Dirty War (1976-1983). Undeterred by relentless intimidation by the military government, the mothers stand together for justice, as a national conscience, to demand to know the fate of their missing loved ones. Both an overview of Argentina’s tumultuous recent past and a riveting profile of an woman-led resistance movement, Las Madres continues to provide an uplifting example of human rights activism and oppositional struggle today. (Film's Official Website) -
El diablo nunca duerme
Cinta sobre la misteriosa muerte del tío de la realizadora en Chihuahua y de cómo reaccionó su familia ante la posibilidad de un suicidio. Es un reflejo de la sociedad actual de provincia. El gobierno está lleno de secretos que todo el mundo sabe pero no lo dice. (Filmoteca UNAM)