Grandmothers

Full Frame President’s Award 2012

NEW DOCS

From 1976 to 1983 a brutal regime in Argentina “disappeared” thousands, including hundreds of pregnant women who gave birth in concentration camps before they were killed. For years the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have searched for their grandchildren. At first they took blindly to the streets, practically helpless, but after years of determined protest they met with success when scientific advances in genetic testing made positive identifications possible. This is a multigenerational story of familial love and devotion that surmounts cruel and seemingly impossible barriers. Told with strength and resolve, touching images of ordinary domestic spaces are creatively animated to bring the sad truth to light.  TBW

Director

Afarin Eghbal

Producer

Kasia Malipan

Editor

Katherine Lee

Cinematographer

Claire Buxton

Original Title

Abuelas

Release Year

2011

Festival Year

2012

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

10 minutes