In addition to the short film programme by Grupo Cine Sur, and on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the March 1976 military coup in Argentina, ZINEBI is retrieving another film from its Archive: Communiqué from Argentina (Lucha Film Collective, 1977), digitized from a 16 mm projection print during research conducted within the ZINEBI Archive project at the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE). The session will include a panel discussion featuring Matías Fajn (EQZE alumnus) and the legal scholar and researcher Gustavo de la Orden, affiliated with the Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto.
Based on a letter from activist Lili Massaferro to an American friend, narrated in voice-over, and using archival material from various Argentine media outlets, the film recounts Lili’s personal story and her political commitment, intertwined with Argentina’s own history: Peronism and the figure of Evita, the death of her son Manolo, and the Peronist feminist movement of the 1970s.
