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Vicenta

Vicenta
Darío Doria
International Competition 2020
Documentary Film
Argentina
2020
69 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.

“Vicenta” conveys the details of this truly incredible imposition in the form of a fable in which plasticine figures seem rooted to the spot in a Kafkaesque nightmare. Only the camera moves through this scenery, usually in travellings across the set-up. Very occasionally excerpts of newscasts, broadcast from small monitors on the stage of this “puppet show”, authenticate the narrative. And yet the whole spectrum of conceivable feelings between being openly paralysed with shock and proud self-empowerment of the mother who stubbornly fights for justice for herself and her daughter is conveyed and made comprehensible. In the above-mentioned UN ruling, the Argentinean state was accused of having fundamentally disregarded the recognised right to freedom from inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment in the case of Laura and her mother Vicenta.
Ralph Eue

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Director
Darío Doria
Script
Luis Camardella, Florencia Gattari, Darío Doria
Cinematographer
Darío Doria
Editor
Darío Doria
Producer
Felicitas Raffo, Pamela Livia Delgado
Co-Producer
Virginia Croatto
Sound
Federico Esquerro
Score
Ezequiel Menalled
Animation
Darío Doria
Narrator
Liliana Herrero
Winner of: FIPRESCI Prize