This animated short exposes the Pinochet government through comparisons to Hitler's Nazi regime using cut-out silhouettes.
In spring 1974, a Studio H&S camera team manages to film in Chile. With a permit from the Junta’s Chancellery, they enter two large prison camps in the northern provinces of Chacabuco and Pisagua and interview inmates.
Twelve-year-old Isabel and her mother, a famous political singer in Chile, fled their home country after the 1973 military coup. Isabel’s father stayed behind, fighting in the underground resistance movement.
The Mapuche people always pray to their gods in the face of hardships like drought or disease. When the Spanish conquistadors arrive on horseback, they seem to be supernatural beings, and the powers of the traditional gods fail.
Cuba in the late 1800s: After overpowering their Spanish masters, cimarrons – runaway African slaves – hide in settlements in the eastern mountains of Cuba. But discord is sown by traitorous elements secretly working for the Spanish.
Cuban director Rebeca Chávez uses archival film and audio material to create a collage of important moments in Fidel Castro’s political life. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba for over five decades, since revolutionary forces toppled the Batista regime in 1959.
During the Junta period in Pinochet’s Chile, banknotes are used as resistance leaflets. Between 1973 and 1975, General Cano, President of the Central Bank, fights against inflation and the defaced banknotes. As a result, he must withdraw banknotes and have new ones printed.
Combining collage animation and live action, this short depicts the achievements of the Chilean people under the Allende government and the subsequent reversal of this progress following the military coup.
A Moscow expert, Sascha, and his counterpart from Berlin, Dieter, find common ground and work together to deliver a vital amplifier to Radio Havana in a short amount of time, even though computer calculations indicate that it will be impossible.