social/political repression, human rights | Sexual Violence/Threat, Death
Buenos Aires, 2008. After thirty-three years in Italy, Mariano Guerra returns to Argentina to face the past, testifying against the former military officers who abducted, tortured and enslaved him during the dictatorship. Housed by the Ministry of Justice alongside other survivors, he reconnects with those who endured captivity with him as he waits for the day of his hearing.
The days spent with the other witnesses, their meetings and their testimony reopen stories that have remained unresolved for decades. Mariano is one of the few survivors of that tragedy and bears a burden that no court judgment can ease. Returning to Buenos Aires forces him to reckon with what it means to have made it out alive.
Marco Bechis (Santiago de Chile, Chile, October 24, 1955) is a Chilean-Italian director, screenwriter and producer.
He is a survivor of the concentration camp “El Club Atlético”, where he was detained for 15 days in April 1977, during the Argentine military dictatorship. Deported from Argentina for political reasons, he ended up in Milan in the same year. He has spent long periods of time in New York, Los Angeles and Paris.
