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Awakening From Sorrow

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Director(s)	John Knoop, Karina Epperlein
Release Date	2007
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	40 min
Format(s)	DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

Awakening From Sorrow: Buenos Aires 1997
A Film by John Knoop & Karina Epperlein

Awakening From Sorrow is about a crucial moment in history when the grief of young Argentines — whose parents disappeared and were tortured and killed during the ‘Dirty War’ erupts into public action, and becomes a cornerstone for social movements from South America to Serbia. Until these young people began to organize and demand explanations from their government, the predominant coping strategy has been to pretend that the missing are still alive. This film documents the power to transform pain into action to lift the veil of repression that has gripped a generation of young people.

The film’s voices are woven into a “tapestry of remembrance” questioning and pushing for justice, accountability and resolution from all angles. They include: Nobel Prize- winner Perez Esquivel, history professor Wolfgang Bayer, death camp survivor Graciela Deleo, and the infamous Captain Adolpho Scilingo who admits to having ordered the dropping of dissidents from a naval cargo plane into the Atlantic Ocean.

When a dictatorship ends and democracy takes over many people are left with not just physical but emotional scars. The expressionistic and moving drawings of the “HIJOS” (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence) together with original music by cellist Beth Vandervennet help to highlight a universal story. The atrocities committed by the state against its own people take a long time to heal and the young people’s courage gives hope to us all.

Karina Epperlein is also the producer of Fanlight’s film Phoenix Dance. Short listed for the 2006 Academy Awards for best documentary, the film follows renowned dancer Homer Avila who lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer. Following the creation of a pas de deux choreographed by Alonzo King, Phoenix Dance takes us on a journey of transformation and healing, challenging our expectations of what it means to be “disabled.”

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Last Updated On:	October 05, 2010