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Event
SLFF 2014 - El vals de los Inutiles | The Waltz
Argentina, Chile 2013 Color 80'
US Northwest Coast Premiere
Director: Edison Cajas
Drama, Documentary
Rated: PG
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Cast: Dario Diaz, Jose Miguel Miranda
Dario is a student who just lost the school year in the National Institute one of Chile's most emblematic schoolsafter a student protest that lasted seven months and demanded quality public schools. Miguel Ángel is a successful man whose life revolves around tennis. In 1979 he was kidnapped by the Pinochet dictatorship, savagely tortured, and deprived of his freedom for more than six months. During the social uprising of 2011, they both decide to run around the La Moneda Government Palace together with thousands of people demanding free and quality education, in one of the strongest citizen demonstrations against the neoliberal policies implanted by the dictatorship. By following their routines, Edison Cájas' first documentary portrays a country that was broken by the dictatorship, and although it seems half reconstructed and the wounds and aftermaths of the past haven't entirely healed, appears to hide a brilliant life at the end of the tunnel.
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Location120 Communications, University of Washington (View)
Memorial Way NE, War Memorial Flagpole
Seattle, WA 98195
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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