Completed - SPANISH - Documentary
The women's jail “Buen Pastor” was a destination of many political preys of the Argentinean authoritarian regime. On 24th may 1975, twenty-six women from different socialist groups escaped from this prison. Nowadays this building has being transformed in a luxurious shopping mall.
Year of production : 2010 Director(s) : Lucía TORRES, Matías HERRERA CÓRDOBA Writer(s) : Lucía TORRES, Mariana TELLO, Matías HERRERA CÓRDOBA Producer(s) : Juan Carlos MARISTANY (EL CALEFÓN CINE), Viviana GARCÍA
“Since someone arrives, starts thinking of going out, running away, escaping by any possible mean”... One year before the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976) was officially operational, a plan to fight socialist ideals had already been implemented in the province of Córdoba. Good Sherpherd was the women jail run by a nuns’ congregation, where the political prisoners that one day decided to escape were locked. Recently, while walls were demolished and the old prison site was transformed into a place for recreation and into a shopping mall, these women tried to put together their stories of lives within the prison through their different trajectories in that 6-year period. They were young girls, 17 to 30 years old. The militancy and the ideals did not die down for being enclosed; on the contrary, the feeling of the injustice grew stronger. Thus the film becomes a tour to reconstruct the space, a social and political memory, uncovering a historical escape, the escape of the 26 women that jumped through a window towards freedom.
Country(ies) : ARGENTINA