Underplayed Gems

El edificio de los Chilenos (2010)

El edificio de los Chilenos poster
Directed by
Macarena Aguiló
Genre
documentary film
Country
Cuba
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In the late 1970s, exiles from the Chilean revolutionary group MIR returned home to fight the dictatorship, leaving their children behind. The film tells the director's own story of growing up in a communal home with dozens of other kids, cared for by surrogate parents.

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What happens

El edificio de los chilenos è un film documentario del 2011, diretto dalla regista cilena Macarena Aguilò. Alla fine degli anni settanta, i militanti del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) esiliati in Europa tornarono in Cile per lottare clandestinamente contro la dittatura. Molti di loro avevano figli che non poterono portare con sé. Per quei bambini nacque il Progetto Hogares, uno spazio di vita comunitaria che riunì oltre sessanta figli di militanti accuditi da venti adulti, chiamati Padres Sociales. Nel film, che ritrae la tragedia di un periodo storico ricorrendo anche all'animazione, la regista racconta in prima persona la sua drammatica esperienza. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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