Gino Bartali’s legacy endures far beyond his three Giro d’Italia and two Tour de France victories. He was a true hero of cycling, but it was only after his death that it became known that he was also a genuine war hero. He rarely spoke about the sacrifice he had made, and very few people knew that he had smuggled fake identity papers for Italian Jews in his bicycle frame. During his daily "training rides" on the gravel roads between Florence and Assisi, he repeatedly put himself in danger.
During the Falklands War, a young second lieutenant is forced to confront the dilemmas of obedience, honor, and endurance. Amid violence, fear, and uncertainty, the inner surge for dignity and survival prevails.
Using a technique that blends real-life footage with reconstructed environments, the epic finds its place in this short film, which echoes statements by English pilots praising the skill and bravery of their Argentine counterparts, given the problems they caused them despite being at a marked technological disadvantage.
In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy kidnapped a young Aboriginal man from the Yamán ethnic group. The young man was taken to England aboard the HMS Beagle and christened Jemmy Button, because a mother-of-pearl button was all he paid for him. In England, he learned English and had tea with King William IV. A year later, he returned to his native Tierra del Fuego. Some thirty years later, a reverend set out for the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego. His immediate objective was to find Jemmy Button. The reverend confidently goes to this meeting with someone he assumes is now a "civilized" Aboriginal man. But what he finds comes as a surprise.
On March 24, 2004, Patricia, a teacher from Monte Grande, saw on television President Néstor Kirchner take down the portrait of Videla and other de facto presidents of the military dictatorship from the Military College. This image repeated itself in her mind, leading her to retrieve from her box of memories the letters addressed to the soldiers of the Malvinas War, which she had saved from destruction when she worked as an administrator at the Municipality of Monte Grande. She then decided to give meaning to that event by starting to deliver the letters that had never arrived.
A journalist interviews a general from the Process a few days after the defeat in the Falklands War. The general's speech is brutally sincere. These are the words that no Argentine military officer would say, has said, or will say. The idea is to exploit one of the feelings many people experience during the trials of repressors: it's strange that no one explicitly admits a single truth. The irony of this story is built on this sense of need to listen, with a certain moral and political awareness.
On a hilltop in the Falkland Islands, two children, about 10 years old, are finishing their vigil and will soon be replaced by their own mothers, both members of the Falkland Islands Celebration Committee. The purpose of the vigil is to catch a glimpse of the plane that will bring Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to Falkland Islands for the first time to visit her subjects on the islands.
The film is set during World War II in a German-occupied European country. In a covered truck on a snow-covered road, the Germans are transporting a group of civilians. Thoughts of imminent death inevitably visit the passengers of the van. The Catholic priest accompanying the arrested, among whom there is a boy, prepares the companions to leave for another world. A complex psychological conflict arises between the priest and the boy. Circumstances develop in such a way that the boy manages to escape.
Julia is 30 years old and the daughter of a fallen soldier. She never knew her father: she was born when he was due to die in the Falklands. Julia has decided to embark on a journey, on her bicycle, from northern Argentina to the Falkland Islands. Everywhere she looks, she finds traces of her own memory: her father is evoked in the memory of the cause for which he gave his life.
The short documentary chronicles an event that occurred immediately following the start of the Falklands War. The Peruvian Air Force secretly sent a small fleet of Mirage aircraft to the Tandil air base to assist the Argentine Air Force.
Javier, a 19-year-old young man drafted into the war, goes to his ex-girlfriend's house seeking forgiveness before he leaves. At the same time, Javier's mother, Alicia, visits an old friend who is now a colonel to ask her to spare him.
Two Argentine soldiers, complete strangers, find themselves face-to-face in a foxhole during the Falklands War, forced into a tense and unexpected encounter at the edge of survival.