This afternoon at 6.30pm, Casa América will be screening in its Iberia hall the documentary film Partidos, voces del exilio (Parties, Voices of Exile), directed by Silvia Di Florio, on the occasion of its commercial premiere in Spain. After the screening there will be a colloquium with the participation of the director of the documentary. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.
The universe of Partidos is the Argentinean exile in Madrid during the time of the military dictatorship in Argentina. It tells of those who had to go into exile to survive, of political activists whose lives were in danger. They had to learn to live in another land. And it also speaks of the children of that exile, a generation of which some were born in a foreign land and others left at a very young age. The presence of both generations contributes to the expansion of the conflict. The necessary exile of the parents, feeling distant and expelled and becoming friends with the land that shelters them. The children inherited this split identity. The parents were impregnated by a tragic history that the children process as best they can.
The documentary tells the present and their story, the need they had to leave their own land to take refuge in another that would protect them, and how they were split in two, between fear and tranquillity, between desire and need, between longing and disillusionment, between two cultures and two belongings. Both lands are part of them and this is how they live their lives today. The film features the special participation of Héctor Alterio, who recites León Felipe’s poem Qué lástima.
