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The miniseries “Wanted”, focused on the theft and appropriation of babies during the last civil-military dictatorship, and the documentary strip “Rereading Mafalda”, by the filmmaker Lorena Muñoz, on the cultural impact of the iconic cartoon created by Quino, are the two national label productions that were chosen to be part of the official selection of the Canneseries festival.
The announcement was officially released this Tuesday by the organization of the contest, whose sixth edition will take place between April 14 and 19 nextwhen both titles have their world premieres before their arrival on Argentine screens.
In “Wanted”, the director Mariano Pozzi -also in charge of the script along with Agustín Muñiz- brings to fiction different real cases related to the search to restore the nearly 500 boys and girls born in captivity who were kidnapped during the exercise of the State terrorism, through the perspective of those who claimed and still claim for the right to their identity and for justice.
Mara Bestelli, Romina Escobar, Rita Terranova, Tom CL, Lola Chiara Carelli García, Santiago Kuster, Dana Crosa and Elena Petraglia are part of the cast of the miniseries produced by UN3, Posta and the Multimedia Institute for Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will participate in the Short Series section along with nine others selected from Australia, Canada, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, France and Spain.
The production of “Se busca” was carried out with the support of the Contestable Development Fund for Audiovisual Communication Media (FOMECA), of the National Communications Entity (ENACOM).
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Meanwhile, among the titles of the Documentary Series section is “Rereading Mafalda”, a documentary strip by Lorena Muñoz -known for her films “Gilda: I do not regret this love” (2016) and “El Potro, the best of love ” (2018)- which focuses on the birth and development of the classic comic strips by graphic humorist Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better remembered as Quino, and on the relevance they acquired and still have in culture.
“Rereading Mafalda”, scripted by Julián Trokberg and produced by Disney+ along with Non Stop, will participate in its category along with the true crime story “Chevaline” (France), the portrait of different female illustrators around the world from “Draw for Change!” (Belgium) and “Juan Carlos: Downfall of the King” (Germany), about the corrupt plot of sex, money and power that led the former Spanish king to abdicate in favor of his son in 2014.
“Lac-Mégantic: Ceci n’est pas un accident” (Canada), about the repercussions that the citizens of a city in the province of Quebec still suffer from the derailment of a train loaded with oil in 2013, and “Miracle N° 71” (Belgium), about the acceptance and search for a miracle cure against multiple sclerosis by director Nathalie Basteyns, complete the section.
