Spoils of War / Botín de Guerra (NY Premiere)
David Blaustein, Argentina/Spain, 1999, 116m (35mm, doc)
During Argentina's military dictatorship, from 1976 to 1982, over 500 children were "disappeared." Many of these children's parents had been abducted by the military police and a number of them were born while their mothers were incarcerated in military jails. In 1977, the "Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo" were created in response to the government's refusal to disclose the truth of the "disappeared." In interviews conducted over the past three years with these women and the grandchildren they found, filmmaker Blaustein succeeds in exposing a system of dictatorship where repression and torture were used to control society and where personal relationships were sacrificed for the sake of the State.
Wed June 14, 6:15;
Thurs June 15, 1:00;
Fri June 16, 3:30;
Sun June 18, 2:00