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The Human Rights and the Arts Working Group at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice invites you to attend a screening of the film "Nostalgia de la Luz"! The screening will take place on Monday, March 7 at 3:30pm.

A discussion on human rights and their portrayal in film will follow, featuring Prof. Carcamo-Huechante (Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Prof. Zipporah Wiseman (School of Law), and Dr. Lucas Lixinski (Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice).

Among many intersecting themes, the film sheds light on several Chilean women’s search for their relatives, victims of “enforced disappearance” during Augusto Pinochet’s reign. The film, written and directed by Patricio Guzmán, was featured in the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, with the following synopsis:

“In Chile, at three thousand metres altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather together in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe.

It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of the mummies, explorers and miners. But also the remains of the dictatorship's political prisoners.

Whilst the astronomers examine the most distant galaxies in search of probable extraterrestrial life, at the foot of the observatories a group of women are digging through the desert soil in search of their disappeared relatives…”

Questions may be directed to Rapoport Center Human Rights Scholar, Stacy Cammarano, at stacy.cammarano@gmail.com.