The Official Story

In this 1985 Oscar winner, a teacher sets out to find the biological mother of her adoptive daughter during the final months of Argentina’s military dictatorship in 1983.

Alicia is a respected history teacher living a safe middle-class life with her husband Roberto, a lawyer closely tied to the authorities, and their five-year-old adopted daughter Gaby. When Alicia reconnects with a childhood friend who was arrested and tortured because of her relationship with a leftist activist, she begins to suspect that Gaby is one of the children stolen from the desaparecidos – the disappeared political prisoners who were killed.

An Ode to the Missing

This film is part of the section “An Ode to the Missing,” exploring Latin America’s dark history of dictatorship and the unsettling parallels to our own time.

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