Nora Cortiñas

Caos de tránsito

Through testimonies and images, the crude reality of human rights in Argentina in democracy is portrayed and the role of the hegemonic means of communication to make causes and protests invisible ...

Vox populi

Norita

As a mother seeking justice for her disappeared son during the dark days of Argentina's dictatorship, Norita's unwavering determination and fearless activism led her to co-found the renowned Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a pivotal human rights organization.

Scarves of History

Argentina and Turkey are geographically apart by thousands of kilometers. However, despite the distance, both countries' recent past brings them immediately together. That nearness takes Nora Cortiñas -a member of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line- into a journey to the Kurdish region of Turkey. There, she meets the Mothers of Peace, who lost their children to violence and state terrorism by the Turkish government, and in order to carry on their fight, have taken the Argentine mothers as a model to become the Saturday Mothers.

Seré Memoria

The documentary rescues in its essence the experience of the first Clandestine Center in all of Latin America converted into a Museum ("Espacio Mansión Seré", inaugurated in March 2013) and manages to make visible a place where, years ago, death and horror ravaged, where today life, art and activism can flourish to continue building a country that explores its past, understands its present and looks with hope to the future.