Ximena González

On the outskirts of Buenos Aires, there is a neighborhood built around two cemeteries. Amidst virgins and pagan offerings, the elders recite memories and forget ghosts. Children invent their childhoods with graves and hammocks. Oblivion is a territory where these creatures glide, feeling the passage of time, even though they are no longer part of it. Fears wander among the shadows of the disappeared; there is silence where voices should have been, and the everyday becomes ritual.

For 20 years, a documentary filmmaker has been searching for his father, who was detained and disappeared during the last Civic-Military Dictatorship. Meanwhile, the EAAF (Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team) is exhuming unidentified bodies in the Avellaneda Cemetery, Buenos Aires province.

This documentary explores the case of Julián Acuña, a boy from the Mbya Guaraní Indigenous Community. Julián was transferred and hospitalized in Buenos Aires by court order. Doctors prescribed heart surgery. The community's spiritual leader dreamed of a stone in the boy's heart and requested his return to the village to heal him with traditional medicine. Time passed, but the boy and his family, far from the forest and completely alone, continued to suffer.

I. I examine damaged film material. II. I recover stories by breaking down the medium that contains them. III. I observe the intervention of biological processes in the production of images. IV. The life of signs makes its way.

Documentary about Maximiliano Kosteki, one of the two young activists killed in the so-called Avellaneda Massacre in 2001. Young Joel follows in Kosteki's footsteps, guided by the questions that marked his life: Who was Maxi? What was Maxi doing there the day of the massacre?