translated from Spanish: “Haydee and the Flying Fish”: documentary about woman who aborted as a result of torture opens in Sanfic

In 2016, after ten years of legal proceedings, the Supreme Court is about to rule against former Navy agents responsible for the torture and death of Haydee Oberreuter’s son (65), arrested when she was 4 months pregnant. It is a landmark trial, where the first conviction in Chile for torture of four of Navy agents is to be handed down.
The filmmaker Pachi Bustos (Tales about the future, Best Film Sanfic 8, Supporting Actors and Black Angels) follows this process, and through the story – which delicately alternates photographs of each moment – also portrays the physical and emotional wounds of an empowered woman, who has continued with her life after the egregious events she had to live.
After an acclaimed international premiere in Hot Docs, the Canadian Documentary Festival (the most important in North America), “Haydee and the Flying Fish” will be part of the Chilean Film Competition at SANFIC, a festival to be held between August 18 and 25 in Santiago.
The documentary, distributed by Miradoc, will have on November 7, its commercial premiere in theaters from Arica to Punta Arenas, with cinephores in Santiago and regions.
“I was shocked by his attitude”
Busts mix sahedes of the present with still photographs that enhance the poetic lyrism of a moving story. Haydee revisits her past as a porteña and fervent admirer of maritime culture that prevailed in the city until, in 1973, when she was studying history in Valparaiso, she was expelled from the university. Two years later, aged 21 years and 4 months pregnant, she was abducted with her mother and daughter a year and a half.
The son he was waiting for and lost during the torture wanders like a ghost about his existence. It stimulates in her, and in her family, the imagination for what it never was. Haydee even prepares a ritual so that he can leave in peace.
“Haydee’s story, her strength, her conviction and commitment also show us how resilience, affection and networks are fundamental tools to resist and advance the path of justice,” says the director, who met the protagonist ten years old. “I was shocked by his attitude of life, his strength and his energy. His sense of truth and justice,” he confesses.
From the pain, “Haydee and the Flying Fish” looks for the light. This is generated by solidarity people who cross paths like a lawyer who, shocked only by reading Haydee’s story in a news publication, decided to file a complaint in court against “those who were responsible.”
“As Haydee says, this story was woven with gold threads. It is based on a series of chances, of unlikely situations, which allowed this unprecedented case in our country: The first conviction for torture against a pregnant woman in Chile, the first conviction against Navy agents and also a unique case for her transgenerational character: it affected a woman, her mother, her 2-year-old daughter and her young son in gestation,” says Bustos.
“It’s a story of people who achieved what seemed impossible: journalist Alejandra Matus published a story to reveal the story. Vicente Bárzana, a lawyer, outsider for many, fortuitously read it and moved to file a complaint for crimes against humanity. The third apex was Judge Alejandro Solis, who, defying the absence of a law criminalizing torture, dismissed any prescription and brought four former Navy officials to trial. An unpublished story, which speaks to the value of selfless, supportive and citizen gestures, and allows us to reflect on how adverse circumstances allow us to bring out the best and the worst in people,” he adds.
The documentary is a production of Errante, in co-production with the Brazilian production company Giros, both companies consolidated within the documentary field at the Latin American level. It has the support of the Audiovisual Fund of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, CORFO, the Brazilian channel Curta! and Ancine.
SANFIC FEATURES
Tuesday, August 20at 6:30 p.m. At CineHoyts The Queen
Friday, August 23 at 19:00 hrs. In CineHoyts Live Empire
COMMERCIAL RELEASE
Thursday, November 7
Distributes Miradoc
ARTISTIC SHEET
Documentary feature film
Running time: 75 minutes
Address: Pachi Bustos
Screenplay: Pachi Bustos – Paola Castillo
Production: Paola Castillo
Co-producer: Belisario Franca (BRASIL)
Editing: Titi Viera-Gallo
Direction of Photography: Pablo Valdés
Fixed photograph: Michelle Bossy
Sound: Romina Núñez
Music: Juan Antonio Leyva and Magda Rosa Galbán
Sound Post Production: Vinicius Leal – AUDIORAMA (BRAZIL)
Post Production Image: Bernardo Neder – AFINAL (Brazil)

Original source in Spanish

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