Los Rubios

This film is in Spanish. Film introduced by Jorge Ruffinelli, expert in Latin American cinema and professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford.

Albertina Carri's second feature is a look at Argentina's recent history from the perspective of a generation forced to mourn those of whom they have no recollection. Carri, who lost her parents to Argentina's brutal military junta when she was three years old, travels through Buenos Aires with her crew to unravel the factual and emotional mysteries of her parents' lives, their disappearance, and their deaths. Traces of Carri's family emerge, colored by sharply conflicting perspectives. Who were the Carris? How did they disappear? Were they blonde, brunette, heroes, or merely a fiction of those who remember them?

Crossing the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, Carri enlists an actor, her parents' former comrades and fading photographs to investigate her parents' disappearance. Ultimately, merging fact, rumor, and imagination, Carri succeeds in reconstructing both her parents' history and her own remembrances of them. Emotionally fraught and intellectually provocative, The Blonds resonates far beyond Argentina's dirty war.

Albertine Carri was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied screenwriting, cinematography, and direction at the Fundación Universidad del Cine and spent six years working as a camera assistant on numerous films. She made her first feature film I Won't Go Back Home in 2000 and has directed two short films Barbie Can Also be Sad (2001); and Aurora, (2003).