Its next screening is Thursday, May 28 at 9:30 p.m., premiering at the the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) where this reviewer expects it will probably blow audiences out of their seats.
Directed by Arianna Ortiz. Written by Stephanie Alison Walker & Paula Pizzi. Produced by Rachel Stander
Cast: Cruz Gonzalez-Cadel, Paula Pizzi, Ignacio Serricchio, Nate Santana, Margarita Lamas
Cinematography by Christopher Rejano, Edited by Jonathan Cuartas.
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Director Arianna Ortiz
Ortiz’s film is a 16-minute short film set during an intimate birthday dinner in Chicago. She uses what looks like a typically bourgeoisie feel-good family gathering to recall the devastating effects of fascism and the disappearance of children during Argentina’s dictatorship in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The lives of an Argentine mother and daughter are shockingly disrupted when an unexpected guest causes jarring recollections of country’s “Dirty War,” thematically recalling stolen identities, intergenerational trauma, memory and political violence.
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