Awards

Festival Bolivia, El séptimo ojo es tuyo
Premio del Público (2007)

Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana - Cuba
Jury´s Official Mention
Official Mention by the Cultural Centre "Pablo de la Torriente Brau"

"Vivid description of a key event in the Argentine political life in the 70s, with a very well-structured  narrative speech"
Victor Casaus ( La Habana Festival Jury)

XVIII Festival de Cinema Latinoamericano - Trieste - Italia
Awards " Videomaérica" and "Salvador Allende"

"The historical recovery of an event that is part of the long-lasting fight for freedom and human rights in Latin America, according to motivation, and showing the revolt of the political prisoners in the south of Argentina in 1972, when some of them succeeded in running away and being granted political asylum in Chile".

Rencontres Cinemas Dámerique Latine - Toulouse
SIGNIS Special Mention, France - March 2004

"Because of its great film construction that reports the dramatic events which  occurred on a black page of the Argentine history that we should not forget."
Natalie Roncier (France), Roger Delahaut (Belgium) and Juan Pablo Serra (Argentina).

Latin  - American Festival "Contra el Silencio de Todas las Voces" (Against the Silence of All the Voices) - México - 2004
Honour Mention

Toronto Latin Film Festival
Best Documentary 2004

Los Angeles Latin American Festival (LALIFF) 2004
Jury´s Special Mention

La mujer y el cine (The woman and the cinema)
Mar del Plata International Festival


2004 Clarín Entertainments  Awards, nominated

Best Opera Prima
Best Documentary

XII Latin-American Cinema & Video Competition - Santa Fe - Argentina
Best Film About Human Rights and Recovery of the Memory
Best Production - December 2004
Awards by the Human Rights State Department , Province of Santa Fe

Condor de Plata Awards to the best Film Production, 2004
Best full-length script
Best full-length movie
Argentine Cinematographic Columnist  Association

Sheffield International Documentary Festival
Display Selection

February - April 2006, Sheffield International Documentary Festival
The Sheffield International Documentary Festival is the UK's premier international event for factual film and television.

The British Film Institute in collaboration with The Sheffield Festival, have   chosen the film Trelew, by  Mariana Arruti, from 10 films all over the world,  for a tour and presentation programme at cinemas in  the United Kingdom,  during February, March and April 2006, which will end in    a-weekend-showing at the Film National Theatre in London.

   Declared of Interest

Interest in  Trelew Town
Interest in the Province of Chubut
Interest in  Buenos Aires City
Interest in the Province of Buenos Aires
Parlamentary Interest  (Argentine National Congress)
Interest in the University of Luján
Interest in the Province of Córdoba
Interest in  Esquel Town

Educational Interest (Educational Minister. Cience and Technology)


 Critics and comments

Trelew, exceptional. Runaway with a high narrative tension.
by Pablo Shanton - Clarín Ñ
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"…the film is meticulous and deeply human, and their images manage to be urgent due to determination to bring to light and  examine an Argentine historical episode  from different angles…"
Independent Film International Festival, April 2003
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Independent Film International Festival:
"The runaway from the Patagonian prison and the next mass execution that took place in 1972 have been reconstructed as if they had occurred these days and it was about a fiction film".
"Lo nuevo de lo nuevo" (BAFICI) Quintín
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"... Mariana Arruti appeals to firsthand witnesses from that August in 1972, and chooses their testimonies in a clever way  ... these two elements are essential to make Trelew one of the best films … Even when the story itself is exciting, having talent is a must in order to capture that power and transfer it onto the screen."
Interlink Headline News No 3516
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"With the rhythm of a political thriller, the film casts a strong light on dark spans of the ERP and Montoneros militant's assassinations."
The Clarín - Zona - Martín Odoriz Filippini
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"brilliant and strong reconstruction of the imprisonment, runaway and next execution of a group of political prisoners during the first dictatorship in Argentina."
Pantalla 90 Magazine, May 2004
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"Synthetic, unappealable in their images and testimonials, a documentary with an indispensable approach."
Juan Carlos Fisher

INCAA Assessment Committee
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"Excellent documentary, because of its amazing research and suspense handling."Pablo Nisenson, film director
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Trelew
Assessment: Very Good
"As if it were an exciting thriller, this documentary brings back to life, with  valuable material, the Trelew massacre, one of the most bloodcurdling events in the Argentine history."
Javier Firpo - The La Razón

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