Silenciados

Silenciados is a documentary that gives voice to the families of victims of urban violence in Brazil. Through their stories, the film discusses controversial subjects in the public debate: impunity, public security and minimum age of criminal responsibility. Unlikely the majority of Brazilian films that victimize the perpetrators, this documentary shows who are the real victims.

In December 2004, the Comprehensive Law Against Gender-Based Violence was adopted in Spain with the aim of curbing the scourge of women killed at the hands of their partners. Fourteen years later, not only the number of victims has not decreased, but it has become clear that the law has created a serious situation of inequality between men and women…

A photographer is murdered after taking photos of a group of kidnapped students. A politician involved in the events is forced to lie in a false official speech.

The story of Olga, a young deaf woman from Central America, receives what appears to be a scholarship to a faith-based sign language school located in Brooklyn, New York.

The documentary "The Silenced Cannot Change The World", has as essence the listening of an unpublished interview with the educator Paulo Freire, were he talks about rebellion, authority, licentiousness and love. Two others young caracters, one from Pernambuco hinterlands and the other from Recife streets, get together with the educator on a contemporary approach tha stimulate a total reflection about the themes.

In the mid-1980s, peace initiatives between the Colombian government and the guerrilla group, FARC, led the latter to disband after two decades of fighting and establish a legal-political party, the Union Patriótica (Patriotic Union). As the UP met with some successs in local elections, it became a target of right-wing death squads and paramilitaries. So far, 3,000 UP members have been murdered or have disappeared, making it a case of political genocide unparalleled in the world. The documentary "The Red Dance" views, through the memories of survivors and relatives of victims, this period of terror and assassination. While FARC has reverted to war, a petition is pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) regarding human rights violations by the State of Colombia.