Film Screening of Awakening from Sorrow
with film makers John Knoop & Karina Epperlein
Wednesday February 24, 2010
$10 - 7:30pm
Dir. by John Knoop and Katina Epperlein. 40 min., 2009.
This 40-minute expressionistic documentary is about a crucial moment in history when the sorrow of young Argentines—whose parents were disappeared, tortured and killed during the 'Dirty War'—is erupting into public action, and becomes a cornerstone for people’s movements all over South America, and even as far away as Serbia. It was recently premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Filmmakers will be on hand to present and discuss the film.
The film’s voices are woven into a “tapestry of remembrance” questioning and pushing for justice, accountability and resolution from all angles. They include: Nobel Prize winner Perez Esquivel, history professor Wolfgang Bayer, death camp survivor Graciela Deleo, a grandmother, and the infamous Captain Adolpho Scilingo who admits that he was ordered to drop dissidents from a naval cargo plane into the South Atlantic.
The expressionistic and moving drawings of the “hijos”—together with the original music—are highlighting a universal story: atrocities committed by the state against its own people take a long time to heal. And the young people’s courage—inspired by the “madres”—gives hope to all of us.
