MEMORIA IMPLACABLE – RELENTLESS MEMORY
Paula Rodríguez Sickert | Chile, Argentina 2024 | 93 Min. | Mapudungun, Spanish, German with engl. Subtitles
Austrian Premiere
WEDNESDAY, 14.05. | 5 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
In a Berlin archive, Margarita Canio discovers unpublished visual and audio material created by the ethnologist Robert Lehmann-Nitsche. Canio follows the records of Katrülaf, a prisoner of war, who was deported by the Argentinian government during the Mapuche genocide. She travels to the places of Katrülaf’s deportation. The act of working through history opens up wounds, but it also enables healing and self-empowerment.
In MEMORIA IMPLACABLE, the attempt to restore collective memory becomes an act of resistance. The reclamation of memory, knowledge, language and the connection to the land provide a way to counter the continuity of colonial violence that is perpetuated in European museums.
Director: Paula Rodríguez Sickert
Camera: Cristián Soto
Editing: Titi Viera-Gallo
Sound: Marta Luciana Sanhueza, Romina Cano
Producer: Paola Castillo Villagrán
Production: Errante Producciones
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AWARDS & SCREENINGS (SELECTION)
Honorable Mention at Cinema Verite Iran IDFF
Best Script at Festival of Chilean Films
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Seattle Latino FF
Double Exposure Investigative FF
Crossing the Screen FF
Kinolatino FF
BIOGRAPHY
Paula Rodríguez Sickert (1963 in Santiago, Chile) lived in Berlin between 1989 and 2014. She obtained a degree in architecture from the Berlin School of Arts in 1992 and the German Film and TV Academy in Berlin in 2002 and embarked on her professional career as a documentary film director and TV journalist.
Many of her documentaries, such as, “First Steps“ (1998), “Pinochet´s Children“(2003) have been awarded by international film festivals. The Documentary “Isabel Allende” (2008) has been distributed on television channels around the world. In 2010, she founded her the film production company VISIONA Film productions in Berlin. After moving back to Chile she filmed the 8-chapter series, “Muertes Anunciadas” (2016), a journalistic report from Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia regarding the subject of femicide, in which she was director, scriptwriter and producer.
