The Suspended Mourning: Alfredo Garcia

The series consists of 16 x 5min short films that narrate true stories based on the cases that make up the Rettig Report, information from the library of the Association of Relatives of the Disappeared Detained and the testimonies of witnesses, relatives, and friends of people detained in Chile who have not been found to this day. The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, in 1991 looked into human rights abuses resulting in death or disappearance that occurred in Chile during the years of military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet, which began on 11 September 1973 and ended on 11 March 1990. They found that over 2,000 people had been killed for political reasons, and dozens of military personnel have been convicted of human rights abuses.