One of the best ways to strengthen democracy is to protect it and continue to build it through daily collective participation. In this sense, the National Bicentennial House will offer a series of free films.

Documentaries, to enjoy Sundays in October (except the 22nd) at 7 p.m., at the headquarters of the National Bicentennial House (Riobamba 985, CABA), are proposed to reflect on the need for a strong and present State that protects the well-being and freedom of its people, both in Argentina and in the rest of Latin America. A total of four documentaries will be produced in the country, which will report on crimes and dark moments that directly and indirectly violate democracy.

The functions will be monitored by their directors.

PROGRAMMING

Sunday 1 at 7 p.m.
There will be millions of us. Bolivia, Evo and the strength of a people (2022) 90 minutes.
Directors: Diego Briata and Santiago Vivacqua
Screenplay: Paulo Soria
Producer: María Eugenia Ferrer
Original music: Gustavo Santaolalla, León Gieco and Miss Bolivia
Original music lyrics: Evo Morales

It tells of a unique historical moment in Latin America, during which an indigenous leader becomes president to rebuild Bolivia. His name is Evo Morales Ayma, a son of peasants born into poverty in the Bolivian highlands and who, throughout his life, confronted the power that plundered and dominated his country for centuries. In 2019, after his fourth electoral victory, a coup d’état attacked the hopes of the change process. Since his exile, Evo has fought alongside the Bolivian people to recover democracy, sovereignty and for the wiphala (the flag of indigenous peoples) to fly again in his native country.
Interviewed: Evo Morales Ayma, Álvaro García Linera, Gabriela Montaño, Adriana Salvatierra. Ramiro García, Segundina Orellana, Margarita Terán González, Special Interview 2020 with President Luis Arce Catacora

Sunday 8 at 7 p.m.
Maelstrom 2001 (2022) 121 minutes.
Director: Juan Pollio
Screenplay: Federico Arzeno and Juan Pollio
Photography: Sergio Claudio
Editing: Lucila Kesselman and Emiliano Serra
Executive producer: Nicolás Martínez Zemborain

On December 20, 2001, during the social mobilization that demonstrated in the federal capital of the Argentine Republic against the state of siege and the socio-economic crisis, five people were murdered and hundreds of others injured by police repression . During the judicial process that tried some of the political and material perpetrators of the crimes, the physicist Rodolfo Pregliasco was summoned to reconstruct with images from various sources contributed to the case – photographs from columnists and videos from Police security cameras Federal. informers and documentarians – the circumstances in which each of the crimes occurred. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” Pregliasco created the panopticon, a program that spatially and temporally orders the chaos of images produced that day. The panopticon makes it possible to locate the victims and witnesses throughout the trial, to relate the police orders transmitted by radio and those which remain latent to reconstruct the day of the bloodiest police repression of Argentine democracy and also a day of party.

Sunday 15 at 7 p.m.
Sebastián Moro, the walker (2023) 95 minutes.
Director: María Laura Cali
Screenplay: Maria Laura Cali, Marcelo Schapces
Music: Cergio Prudencio
Photography: Sergio Bastani, Libio Pensaballe
Companies: Argentina-Bolivia co-production; Barakacine, Buda Production House, Ukamau Group Foundation

At the time of the coup d’état in Bolivia in November 2019, Argentine journalist Sebastián Moro died in unclear circumstances, Sebastián’s voice and words reconstruct his journey from Mendoza to La Paz and shed light on the reasons for his death.

Sunday 29 at 7 p.m.
In the line of duty: Iron Mountain (2022) 68 minutes.
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Screenplay: Carlos Castro
Actors: Cécilia Roth

The documentary shows the hidden story of the intentional fire of Iron Mountain, in the Barracas district of Buenos Aires, on February 5, 2014. When a wall of the company’s warehouse dedicated to file storage was collapsed and fell on firefighters and rescuers. , caused the death of six police firefighters, two volunteer firefighters and two Civil Protection agents. The film denounces that the same company has already suffered accidents in the United States, England, Italy and Canada, where its intentionality has been demonstrated. Likewise, expert reports concluded that the fire in Barracas, where ten people lost their lives and sensitive information from banks and financial companies formally suspected of money laundering was destroyed, was intentional. In 2015, the Argentine courts determined that there was a plan to incinerate the entire deposit and promote the disappearance of sensitive documents. The maneuver allegedly sought to eliminate evidence of money laundering. The Iron Mountain board and suspicious names were closely tied to politics.