Seattle, Film Festival
Thursday, December 12/097pm, 911 Media Arts Center
Director: Andrei Nekrasov
Documentary. 2004. USA/Russia. 105 min. English and Russian, subtitled
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In September 1999, two working-class Moscow apartment buildings were bombed in atrocious and deadly attacks that authorities blamed on Chechen terrorists. As fear rippled through Russia, Vladmir Putin centered his presidential bid on settling the score with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, vying to "rub them out in the outhouse." With this visually stunning documentary, Andrei Nekrasov powerfully questions Chechen responsibility for the blasts, and explores recent evidence that the bombings were orchestrated by Russian authorities in order to discredit the democratically elected Chechen leadership and to precipitate a second war with Chechnya.
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Olga Konskaia
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Director: Rodrigo Vazquez
Documentary. 2003. France. 90 min. English, Spanish and French, subtitled
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Launched in 1975, Operation Condor united half a dozen Latin American dictatorships with a singular cause: to stamp out the threat of leftist political opposition by any means possible, often by torture and assassination. In the name of "the struggle against terrorism," Condor conducted a secret war on South American dissidents for more than a decade - a war its architects openly claim as a progenitor of the current "War on Terrorism." Through the stories of both victims and perpetrators, CONDOR - AXIS OF EVIL chillingly explores this brutal coalition, whose roster of collaborators included then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the CIA.
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Sarah Trévillard
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Director: Simone Duarte
Documentary. 2004. Brazil/Argentina. 28 min. Spanish, subtitled
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In Argentina, adopted children have grown up with a haunting legacy of state violence: the "disappearance" of their parents under circumstances that are still being unearthed. In the course of their search for truth, the new generation is building an archive of remembrance. ARCHIVO DE LA IDENTIDAD presents the work of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association and a group of students at the University of Buenos Aires, as they bring to life the forgotten faces and memories of "Los Desaparecidos." They file not statistical facts or fingerprints, however, but memories of the deceased: a favorite color, or a place frequented on leisurely afternoons. This is a work that can help all of Argentina to search for its identity.
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Simone Duarte
sduarte1@nyc.rr.com