Director: Nicholas Vezirgiannis Producer: Pavlos Nerantzis Writer: Pavlos Nerantzis Genre: Documentary Country: Greece Duration: 80 Original Format: HD 16.9 Photography: Nicholas Vezirgiannis Editing: Nikos papanastasiou
Synopsis of the Film: In 1976 Argentina suffered a military coup. General Videla's cruel and violently oppressive junta remained in power for 7 years. During that time, 30,000 citizens, mostly students and unionists, were silently and systematically erased from existence. They became known as "los desaparecidos", the disappeared. Relatives desperately sought for news of their people through enquiries to the police, the military, the hospitals; but the dictatorship had enforced a reign of fear and darkness. These facts were the basis for the creation of the movement "Mothers of the May Square", who demonstrated every Thursday demanding to know what had become of their children, and later the "Grandmothers of the May Square" who are continuing the search. Missing children were "adopted" by members of the military regime who used to abduct pregnant women, take the babies as soon as they were born, and kill the mothers. The ongoing search for the missing children continues until today. Thirty years later, this dark page of Argentinean history is brought back to focus. The country's current democratic government, the Argentinean citizens and various organizations are demanding vindication, punishment of the culprits, recognition and honor of the memory of all those people who perished so unjustly. By many, it is considered genocide. Bio-filmography of the Director: Born in Thessaloniki, he studied filmmaking in the United States, at New York University, and since 1992 he has worked as a director for ERT3 in Greece. He has directed many documentary series of a historical, political and ethnological content. He also worked as program director between 2001-2004. Today, he works as program designer for ERT3 in Thessaloniki. For five years he taught at various film and theater schools. 1995 The Kalash (doc series) 1998 Lines across the Landscape (doc series) 1999 Hunting Hares (feature film) 2000 Observer (TV movie) 2007 The Road of Suffering (doc) 2007 The Spider's Web - Guantanamo Express(doc) 2008 The Guards of the Holy Sepulture (doc) 2009 The Campaign that Changed the World (doc series) 2010 The List of Silence (doc).
Annual Program Without Frontiers - The list of silence
