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Abuelas: Grandmothers on a Mission

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Abstract
In 1985, the Academy Award® nominated film Abuelas: Grandmothers on a Mission profiled the Argentinian mothers’ movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 “disappeared” sons and daughters. Now three decades later, Argentina’s courageous Grandmothers, or “Abuelas”, have been searching for their grandchildren: the children of their sons and daughters who disappeared during Argentina’s “dirty war.” The women in Abuelas: Grandmothers on a Mission are seeking answers about their children that nobody else will give — answers about a generation that survived, but were kidnapped and relocated to families linked with the regime that murdered their parents.

Argentine filmmaker Noemi Weis beautifully documents the grandmothers’ painstaking work and its results - dramatic, inspiring and sometimes controversial - as the women make contact with grandchildren who have grown up living lies created by their adoptive parents. Their tireless work continues today: the justice they are seeking for their children’s murder, their drive to find their grandchildren, and their international status speaking out for family reunification.
Collection
Women Make Movies
Subject
Children of disappeared persons -- Family relationships -- Argentina, Missing children -- Family relationships -- Argentina, Disappeared persons -- Argentina, Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1955-1983, Human rights -- Argentina, Civil rights -- Argentina
Contributors
Weis, Noemí (director), Weintraub, Sharon (executive producer), Weis, Noemí (producer), Freiberg, Daniel (composer), Weis, Eugene (editor), Weis, Eugene (videographer), Filmblanc (collaborator), Women make movies (distributor)
Duration
00:27:53 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Target or Intended Audience
adult/continuing education, higher education, high school (grades 10-12), college
Copyright Holder
Name Women Make Movies
Roledistributor
Telephone212-925-0606
Address462 Broadway, STE 500, New York, NY 10013
Email[email protected]
Copyright Date
2012-01-01
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