Garage Olimpo (NY Premiere)
Marco Bechis, Argentina, 1999, 98m (35mm, drama)
Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship: Maria lives with her mother and Felix, a shy, young boarder in love with her. Felix appears to be without a past or family. He works as a watchman at a garage. Maria works teaching reading and writing in a slum and is active in a small organization that opposes the military dictatorship. One morning, a squad of plainclothes soldiers seize Maria and take her to the garage Olimpo - one of the numerous torture chambers used by the military, situated in the very heart of Buenos Aires, whose atrocities remain invisible to the people who pass by. Quickly Maria realizes that this is the garage where Felix works, supervising and sometimes performing tortures on those kidnapped by the military. Felix's obsession with Maria becomes her only weapon against the nightmarish world surrounding her.
Fri June 23, 9:15;
Sun June 25, 8:45;
Mon June 26, 3:15