Olbia calls Latin America. And Latin America responds through great cinema. After the debut with “Kiss of the Spider Woman” by Hector Babenco, the Politecnico Argonauti festival continues with the film by Costa-Gavras “Missing”, starring Oscar winners Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, about the 1973 Chilean coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.
The film, scheduled for Wednesday at the Argonauti Polytechnic in Olbia at 7:30 p.m., will be introduced by Livia Iglesias and Marco Navone and some members of the local Latin American community, in line with the America Latina chiama program. The project, which will develop over five weeks through screenings and meetings, was born, as the organizers explain, from a reflection stimulated by the Oscar-winning film “I'm Still Here” by Walter Salles (2024), based on the 2015 memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva on the disappearance of his father Rubens Paiva, desaparecido during the twenty-year Brazilian military dictatorship in the context of the Cold War.
Also during the evening of Wednesday, around the film “Missing”, the drama of the desaparecidos in Latin America will be analyzed, with the results of the infamous Operation Condor, conducted by the United States of America and aimed at destabilizing the democratic governments of the continent, replaced with authoritarian and military regimes.
Also on the bill are “Garage Olimpo” by Marco Bechis, Wednesday, May 7, and “The Secret in Their Eyes” by Juan Josè Campanella (Friday, May 16), both about the Argentine dictatorship. The film festival will end on May 21 with “Return to Havana,” a bitter reflection by Laurent Cantet on the Cuban revolution.
The project, created by the cultural association Argonauti, is sponsored by the Municipality of Olbia, and involves the New Generation association and many of the Latin American citizens present in Olbia, who actively participate in the screenings.
