A journey into Uruguayan history denial.
Footage: Uruguay | 2006 | 31 minutes | Presented at the Lussas (France, Ardèche) Documentary Festival in 2006; presented at the ARTESS (Not-for-profit art association) in 2007.
Synopsis: A Jail Called Prison was conceived as a very personal road movie. Lucia, a Franco-Uruguayan woman, is looking for testimonies on the memory of the dictatorship in Uruguay.
She first interviews her relatives and then various protagonists who played a role in this part of History. Lucia makes us discover with lightness the silences, the fears and the oblivion of a whole society that cannot yet grasps its denials.
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