A family retells their experience escaping the horrors of the Argentine dictatorship and 'La Junta Militar' in the 70s. It is 1976 and Argentina is experiencing a military coup d'état, led by Jorge Rafael Videla and backed by the US, that will grip the country for over six years. At this time, filmmaker Mourad Kourbaj’s family is enduring the greatest upheaval of their lives, the effects of which remain some fifty years later. Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento//A Death and A Birth (2022) recounts the family’s experience through their own words in a memoir that honours the journey and search for safety they and so many others took at this historical time. Blending together oral histories and collages of family photographs and found footage, the film demonstrates the losses and lives turned upside down by the Argentine military dictatorship.

In this episode, Mourad discusses the inspirations and influences behind the film and more.

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