Reckoning with Perpetrators and Collaborators

El pacto de Adriana (Adriana’s Pact), dir. Lissette Orozco. Chile, 2017. Haydee y el pez volador (Haydee and the Flying Fish), dir. Pachi Bustos. Chile, 2019. Pastor Claudio, dir. Beth Formaggini. Brazil, 2017. Responsabilidad empresarial (Corporate Accountability), dir. Jonathan Perel. Argentina, 2020. Latin America’s entangled histories of civil-military dictatorships have been fertile ground for film production about state violence and terrorism, mostly focusing on victims’ trauma narratives and the reconstruction of the personal memories of dissidents and opponents during authoritarian rule. The abundance of both fiction and documentary films since the transitions to democracy in the region in the 1980s has helped shape a historical memory of the atrocities of these regimes, as well as a reckoning with the personal traumas of the families of abducted, tortured and murdered victims. Recently, several documentaries have sought to denounce the failures of legal systems through narratives that urge

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