Forest of Memory(2023)
The Forest that they wanted to forget, but it was heard louder and louder, NEVER AGAIN.
The documentary tells the story of the Memory Forest, located in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of San Juan. The short film shows some of its protagonists; Margarita Camus, Diego Fiol, Alicia Ruso, Cristina De Santis and Carlos Rodríguez, who met again in the place where the idea of creating this space for the memory of the detained-disappeared people in the last civil-military dictatorship was born. The piece was filmed entirely at the Faculty of Social Sciences and is the only high-resolution record of the history of the Forest and the testimony of its protagonists.
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