We Who Are Still Alive

A new judgment was held on 15 March, 2007, against the Argentine military cadres responsible for the genocides during the seventies. At the center of this trial, debating the kidnapping and killing of Italian citizens at Esma, the Mechanical School of the Military Navy. There, 5,000 young people were tortured before disappearing, thrown from airplanes down in the open sea or in the Rio de la Plata river; less of 200 survived. Besides the trial, the doc narrates the mothers’ excruciating sorrow, the survivors’ anguish, the collective effort in the fight for human rights and the trauma of the children who discover that theirs presumed fathers are sometimes the murderers of their true parents. During the trial, comes up the story of the three generation of women who survived and keep together the memory of this “past who never pass”.

Director, scriptwriter and producer. He graduated of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1978. He directed shorts and documentaries for TV. Between 1988 and 1991, he was director of international reportages and documentaries for Italian TV. He directed the shorts The Sandals are Coming (1997) and Shut up everyone, the Noise Man (2000), this one with Jean-Luc Bideau, First Prize at the Turin Youth Cinema Festival. He debuted in feature films with the comedy Last Food (2004). In 2008, he made the production, direction and screenplay of La Sirena, episode of the collective film All Human Rights for All for the 60th anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration. We who Are Still Alive won Brasile Award at the Italian documentary festival SalinaDocFest in 2009. The prize is part of a cinematographic interchange in which Mostra indicates Brazilian documentaries for Salinas’ programming, and also presents the winner of the Italian festival in its selection.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA