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Post-Production - SPANISH - Drama, True Story - 91 minutes

Log Line

Two women, two generations, the fight and the poetry.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2016 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2019 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2020

Director(s) : Carlos MARTINEZ
Writer(s) : Carlos MARTINEZ
Cast : Malena SANCHEZ, Ingrid PELICORI, Jorge SUAREZ, Enrique DUMONT, Miguel BELÁUSTEGUI, Lucas POSE, Manuela ROCA, Horacio ROCA, Marcela FERRADAS, Horacio PEÑA

Producer(s) : Carlos MARTÍNEZ (ESTUDIOA CINE), Lucia MARTINEZ (EstudioA Cine), Oscar AZAR (Cinema Digital)

Synopsis

In the revolted 70's in Argentina, teenage Graciela is an artist and a poet. She and Julio, a charismatic student leader, are brought together by their ideals for social justice. Her poems reach young musician Flecha, who dreams of singing them for a roaring crowd.

As the times grow harder and more dangerous, friends are persecuted, Graciela and Julio protect each other, but the dictatorship kidnaps them.

Graciela's mother desperate search for her daughter brings her together with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who's relentless clamor for their missing children is only met with more terror and death from the bloody dictatorship.

35 years later, that mother publishes a book of Graciela's poems, and brings it to Flecha, now an accomplished musician. He turns them into songs that let her words live and fly.

Production

Country(ies) : ARGENTINA


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