Pablo Mensi

Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’ homes and workplaces to publicly shame them and raise awareness about the government’s systematic and brutal targeting of its people — and how it had gone unpunished. The human rights group HIJOS (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence) led and labeled this direct-action style of protest “escrache,” or exposure.

December 2001, Pablo lives in Buenos Aires in the middle of the worst economic crisis in Argentina. It is not easy for him to find a job and if he does, he is fired almost immediately. He lives alone in a small apartment and his main objective is to find a woman.

A Musical Journey is a documentary film exploring the story of the Argentine digital cumbia movement (with a focus on the ZZK label) accompanying a band (La Yegros) as they tour Europe for the first time.