Children of Memory (2012)

Genre

documentary film

How it feels

A documentary follows an investigator and families looking for children who disappeared during El Salvador's civil war. They travel through the countryside interviewing witnesses and facing obstacles from sealed military records.

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What happens

Children of Memory (Niños de la Memoria) is a documentary film produced by Kathryn Smith Pyle and Maria Teresa Rodriguez and directed by Rodriguez. From 1980 to 1992 about 75,000 women, men and children died and disappeared during El Salvador’s civil war. It was known fact that most adults would be assassinated, but no one knows exactly what happened to the children. The film follows Pro-Búsqueda investigator Margarita Zamora as she searches the countryside asking eyewitnesses to recall what they remember from war times. As Pyle and Rodriguez tell the personal account of Zamora's search for her four siblings, so do they also tell the story of American Jaime Harvey, who was adopted from El Salvador in 1980, and Salvador Garcia, a farmer who continues the search for his daughter Cristabel. Their efforts to find their family members are challenged by the lack of access to Salvadoran military war archives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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