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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Argentina, 2014. A young woman arrives at a public hospital with acute abdominal pain. She does not know she is pregnant. Hours later, she is accused of having an abortion. She spends more than two years in preventive detention and is sentenced to eight years in prison. A lawyer from Tucumán, Soledad Deza, takes on the case and will change the history of the country. The victim, who decides to preserve her identity, will be renamed Belén.
A deeply political and emotional work directed by Dolores Fonzi, Belén comes to Zinemaldia with this poignant true story following the efforts of Deza, played by Fonzi herself. Belén is brough to life by Camila Plaate, capturing the character’s vulnerability and strength.
The filmmaker’s second feature film is a testament to active memory in a time when hard-won rights are under threat. Fonzi, who has long campaigned for Belén’s freedom, calls it a film not only about abortion rights but broader injustices within systems that fail to protect basic human rights, and goes beyond feminism, in a crucial time for Argentine cinema, as all state resources for cinema and culture have been cut-off.
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