Tag: archive

                    Mojados is an eye-opening documentary filmed over the
        course of ten days that follows four men into the desperate world
        of illegal immigration. Alongside Bear, Tiger, Handsome, and Old
         Man, director Tommy Davis takes a 120 mile cross-desert journey
         that has been traveled innumerable times by nameless immigrants
         who ? like these four young migrants from Michoacan, Mexico ? all
         had the simple, American dream for a better future. Davis brings
         to life the often unheard hopes and stories of these migrants as
         their dehydrated days evading the U.S. Border Patrol turn into
         sub-zero nights filled with barbed wire, brutal storms and the
         ever-present confrontation with death that is reality for the tens
         of thousands of illegal immigrants who make a similar journey into
         the United States every year.

REPATRIATION, winner of the Freedom of Expression Award at the 2004
Sundance Film Festival, documents the lives of North Korean spies who were
captured and imprisoned in the South for 30 to 40 years. Upon their
release, the prisoners had no place to call home, and many moved into
Director Kim Dong-won’s neighborhood. A deep bond formed between some of
the ex-spies and Kim, who ultimately spent 12 years and 500 hours of
videotape making this film. How do men who have spent so much time
incarcerated reenter the outside world? How is one affected by a cultural
conversion four decades in the making? Kim narrates throughout the film,
providing an insightful perspective.

Launched in 1975, Operation Condor united half a dozen Latin American
dictatorships with a singular cause: to stamp out the threat of leftist
political opposition by any means possible, often by torture and
assassination. In the name of “the struggle against terrorism,” Condor
conducted a secret war on South American dissidents for more than a decade
? a war its architects openly claim as a progenitor of the current “War on
Terrorism.” Through the stories of both victims and perpetrators, CONDOR ?
AXIS OF EVIL chillingly explores this brutal coalition, whose roster of
collaborators included then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the CIA.

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ARCHIVO DE LA IDENTIDAD
Director: Simone Duarte
Documentary. 2004. Brazil/Argentina. 28 min. Spanish, subtitled.

In Argentina, adopted children have grown up with a haunting legacy of
state violence: the “disappearance” of their parents under circumstances
that are still being unearthed. In the course of their search for truth,
the new generation is building an archive of remembrance. ARCHIVO DE LA
IDENTIDAD presents the work of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Association and a group of students at the University of Buenos Aires, as
they bring to life the forgotten faces and memories of “Los Desaparecidos.”
They file not statistical facts or fingerprints, however, but memories of
the deceased: a favorite color, or a place frequented on leisurely
afternoons. This is a work that can help all of Argentina to search for its
identity.