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Verdades Verdaderas, a Vida de Estela (Real Truths, the Life of Estella)

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Verdades verdaderas is a feature film describing through the life of one woman, the disappearances of Argentine citizens during the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. The film tells the personal story of Estela de Carlotto, a founder and president of the Association of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, devoted to finding those children taken from their assassinated parents and to return them to their true families.

The film tells the story of the work of the Grandmothers through Carlotto whose daughter Laura, arrested by the dictatorship when she was three months pregnant, was murdered after giving birth to her son in prison. The film follows the experience lived by the leading character as she was transformed from a mother and housewife into the leader of a crusade for the recovery of the children stolen by the military dictatorship. Film director Gil Lavedra states: "What this film develops is the mission of this woman who keeps remodeling herself every minute until she becomes what she is now: a world famous figure, universally acknowledged for her total commitment in the international field of human rights, and the president of a NGO [non-governmental organisation] which has been proposed for the Nobel Prize for Peace".

The film is the winner of the Signis-World Alliance for Christian Communication (WACC) Human Rights award of 2011.

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96 min.
Date Year of Production
Not specified
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Signis website, May 31 2012.