The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has started at the Castro Theatre and I enjoyed a pretty heavy Argentinian film as well as a great short project, yesterday.
Te Extraño is an Argentine film about the Disappeared, of whom many were Jewish. The family in this film were Ashkenazi and were victims of this terrible epidemic when their eldest son, Adrian, was disappeared mid-film. The film was multi-layered, focusing on family dynamics, cultural identity, and Jewish and Latino displacement.
The first I heard of the Disappeared was through Sting's protest song They Dance Alone (Cueca solo). This film made it much more real for me. The film-maker truthfully and eloquently tells this semi-autobiographical story through the main character, a high school aged Javier (Adrian's younger brother), who is sent to Mexico in order to protect him from the political situation in 1970's Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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