17th Annual Latin America and Spain Film Festival: Beyond My Grandfather - Chile
Date | Thursday 20 September 2018 |
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Time | 6pm - 9pm |
Where | S.G.01 S Block Building, University of Waikato |
Contact | Aandrea Murray |
Contact email | aandrea.murray@waikato.ac.nz |
Website | lasffnz.co.nz/ |
Admission Cost | Free |
The selection include a wide range of genres, topics and styles, giving the general public and cinephiles a chance to immerse themselves into the languages – Spanish and Portuguese – as well as the cultural and social aspects of our countries.
Admission to the movies is free.
Venue: S.G.01 S Block Building, University of Waikato
Parking is off Knighton Road via Gate 1.
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Latin America and Spain Film Festival
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Tonight's film in the 17th Latin America and Spain Film Festival - Hamilton at 6pm. Beyond My Grandfather - Chile
For more information and to watch the trailer >>
http://lasffnz.co.nz/portfolio-posts/chile/
Synopsis
More than 40 years have passed since a military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende. The death of Allende and the years that followed have left deep scars in both the country and in Allende’s immediate family. In Beyond My Grandfather Allende, his granddaughter Marcia Tambutti Allende goes in search of Salvador Allende the man.
She attempts to reconstruct the past through informal interviews with her family, quickly discovering that they don’t talk about “Chicho”, as he was affectionately known. Memories of him have been buried deep and seem too painful to extract. Nevertheless, the filmmaker’s aged grandmother slowly but surely becomes accustomed to her compassionate but sharp interviewing style and starts to talk more about Allende, her marriage and her role as the president’s wife. Other members of the family, many of whom never knew Allende personally, also start to talk.