DARIO DORIA, a 36 year-old Argentinian filmmaker, was awarded a US $5,000 grant for his project, provisionally entitled “Ángel Bertuzzi”. The jury was impressed by the filmmaker’s sensitive and human approach as well as the original visual treatment he proposes. By portraying a somber, enigmatic character, and the contradictions he is prey to, the filmmaker wants to denounce the hypocrisy of Argentinian society and engender an important debate on the need to legalize abortion in the country, and render it more accessible to women

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Seventy-three-year-old Ángel Bertuzzi has been performing abortions in an illegal context for over 40 years now. But, day after day the loneliness, this illegal context and the hypocritical social condemnation he undergoes are becoming unbearable. Quite fed up, he thus tries to show us he’s not an inhuman killer but just a doctor doing his job. It will not be that simple – the path he’s decided to take is like those of The Quixote and, his attempts being worn out, Ángel will return to his consulting room to go on doing the thing he does best: abortions.