Argentinia, 2008, 93 min.

Director: Estella Bravo
Release: 2008/10/10

	Who am I?

Who Am I is the extraordinary story of the 'found' children of Argentina's 'Dirty War' during the 1970s and 1980s, in which many dissidents were disappeared and their children given to families of the junta.

Thirty years later these children must face the painful facts of their background and the families they lost.

A remarkable film about identity by acclaimed film-maker Estela Bravo.

A military dictatorship ruled Argentina from 1976-1983. During this time 30,000 people disappeared including 500 children who were seized with their parents or born in concentration camps. This is the story of some of those children who were found and have recovered their true identities.

Who Am I? takes place in 1986 and 2006, but with the same cast of characters – the Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers, named after the square in central Buenos Aires where they first gathered to demand the return of their grandchildren – sons and daughters of dissidents who had been abducted and murdered by the military government.

The film begins in Buenos Aires in 1986 Estela Carlotto talks to a classroom of primary school-age children. "I'm a Plaza de Mayo Grandmother because I'm looking for my grandson who is missing, who was taken away from my daughter," she explains to them. "I never thought such terrible things would happen in our country – that a military government would start to abduct people, make them disappear. It happened to me. Many other Argentine families suffered this pain." Who am I?
A film about children abducted under the fascist regime of Argentinia. Parents who were jailed and killed by the government lost their newborns to military officials who acted as foster parents untill their grandmothers united to call for Justice.