A still from the film Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento // A Death and A Birth, showing a black and white image of three children around a woman, who has been edited to stand-out in a bright red. A banner across the still reads “Coming soon to Fringe of Col

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Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento//A Death and A Birth

UK / 2022 / 9m / UK Premiere / Spanish

In-Person: Sun 25 June / 19:00 BST

Online: 23 - 29 June

A family retells their experience escaping the horrors of the Argentine dictatorship and 'La Junta Militar' in the 70s.

It is 1976 and Argentina is experiencing a military coup d'état, led by Jorge Rafael Videla and backed by the US, that will grip the country for over six years. At this time, filmmaker Mourad Kourbaj’s family is enduring the greatest upheaval of their lives, the effects of which remain some fifty years later. Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento//A Death and A Birth (2022) recounts the family’s experience through their own words in a memoir that honours the journey and search for safety they and so many others took at this historical time. Blending together oral histories and collages of family photographs and found footage, the film demonstrates the losses and lives turned upside down by the Argentine military dictatorship.

  • Director/Producer: Mourad Kourbaj

    Editing: Mourad Kourbaj

  • (in order of appearance)

    Pablo Capurro Ferrer

    Maria Capurro Ferrer

    Mario Capurro

    Josefina Ferrer

    Candelaria Capurro Ferrer

    Sebastian Capurro Ferrer

  • Escualo - Astor Piazzolla

    Milonga Del Angel - Astor Piazzolla

    Oblivion - Astor Piazzolla

  • Captions by Sarya Wu

    British Sign Language by Grace Buckle

    BSL Editing by Tao-Anas Le Thanh

    Audio Descriptions provided by the International Digital Centre

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Filmmaker Mourad Kourbaj talk about Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento//A Death and A Birth in our Audio Programme, Before the Applause - available wherever you get your podcasts.

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This screening will all be accompanied by a live Q&A with Mourad Kourbaj, maker of Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento//A Death and A Birth. A recording and transcript of this event which will be made available to Online audiences the following day.

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Filmmaker Q&A: Mourad Kourbaj

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The transcript for this event will be available soon.

A still from the film Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento // A Death and A Birth, showing a black and white image of three children around a woman, who has been edited to stand-out in a bright red. A banner across the still reads “Coming soon to Fringe of Col

Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento//A Death and A Birth - British Sign Language

A still from the film Una Muerte y Un Nacimiento // A Death and A Birth, showing a black and white image of three children around a woman, who has been edited to stand-out in a bright red. A banner across the still reads “Coming soon to Fringe of Col