Andrès Habegger, a 43 year-old filmmaker from Argentina, received a $5,000 award for his project
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

A ghost-like figure for a father, almost a hero; a political activist who was kidnapped and disappeared in Brazil in 1978, a victim of Argentina’s military dictatorship. A 9 year-old son exiled in Mexico who has lived the major part of his life in the shadow of this absence. A story of the forgotten past and some salvaged memories, related through personal diaries some retrieved, others unfinished, that were marked by this disappearance.

The desire to recover what was lost, to continue and complete today the writings from his childhood.  A search for truth and certitude about the kidnapping, the will to reconstruct the circumstances of this disappearance and to hunt out those responsible in a fleeting quest for justice.

El (im)posible olvido is an emotional and political interior voyage to a place where lost memories are buried.