Angelina Vásquez
Directing
Biography
Angelina Vásquez (born 1950) is a Chilean documentary filmmaker who was exiled to Finland following the 1973 Chilean coup but returned to film clandestinely during the Pinochet dictatorship in the early 1980s. Like Marilú Mallet in Canada and Valeria Sarmiento in France, she is notable as one of the first Chilean women film directors, emerging in the early 1970s but producing most of her work in exile.
Known For
A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.
Presencia lejana
The story of a Chilean refugee, marked by imprisonment and torture, illustrates the tragedy suffered by victims of violence in Latin America during the years of dictatorship.
Gracias a la Vida (o la Pequeña Historia de una Mujer Maltratada)
Story of the history of the workers' movement in the saltpeter offices of northern Chile. The voices of the workers are heard, with images of the mining sites.
Crónica del salitre
Portrait of the Chilean community in Finland from the perspective of the director, a political exile after the 1973 coup d'état.
Two Years in Finland
Based on María Vesterinen's drawings, it tells the story of the kidnapping of men and women in Chile and the search for their missing relatives.
Así nace un desaparecido
The diary of a trip - interrupted - of the director to Chile, made during the social explosion of the eighties: Expelled from the country after her semi-clandestine entry was discovered by the intelligence services, it was completed from a distance. It is one of the first returns from exile and a fundamental antecedent of the first-person documentary in Chile.
Fragmentos de un diario inacabado
Anita Mikkonen, a Finnish brigadista in Nicaragua's literacy campaign, returns to the highlands of San Andres, where she meets again the men, women and children who shared their homes, their food and their history with her.
Apuntes nicaragüenses
A man, his garden of flowers and a salesman.