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JUNE AT THE SKIRBALL ~ OUR DISAPPEARED ' NEUSTROS DESAPERECIDOS' ~ LA screening
Event Type:  Event Screening
06/14/2009 @ 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Los Angeles, CA

OUR DISAPPEARED (NUESTROS DESAPARECIDOS)
Sunday, June 14, 2:00 p.m.
View this poignant documentary about Argentine director Juan Mandelbaum's efforts to learn what happened to loved ones who were "disappeared" by the Argentine military in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Presented as part of the Skirball's Latin Jewish Life in Film series.

Our Disappeared (Nuestros Desaparecidos)
Latin Jewish Life in Film
Sunday, June 14, 2:00 pm
ADMISSION:
$6 General, $5 Members and Full-Time Students
Through a casual Google search, Argentine director Juan Mandelbaum finds out that Patricia, a long-lost girlfriend, was among the thousands kidnapped and tortured by the military in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews with family and friends of the victims, Our Disappeared chronicles Mandelbaum's grievous journey to find out what happened to Patricia and other friends who were "disappeared." (Argentina, 2008, 99 min. No MPAA rating. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.)

Inés Kuperschmit, one of the film's subjects, will talk about her life experiences and discuss the film after the screening.

$6 General; $5 Skirball Members and Full-Time Students

Location Name:  Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Address: 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd. , Los Angeles, CA 90049
Tel: (310) 440-4500
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