Missionnaire, un camino de liberación(2004)

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Directed by: Fernando Nogueira 　　Montage: Gustavo Cataldi 　　Produced by: Maria Cabrejas 　　Date: 2004 　　Country: Argentina 　　Language: Spanish (Spanish subtitles) 　　Running time: 49' 　　Availability in the UK: Queen Mary, University of London, Library 　　Missionnaire is a documentary about Sister Ivonne Pierron's ongoing missionary 　　work in a remote area in the Province of Misiones (Northeastern corner of 　　Argentina). Although the film is set in Pueblo Illia [Illia Village] (Misiones), it 　　opens with panoramic views of the city of Buenos Aires, while a radio newsreader 　　tells us about France's request for Captain Alfredo Astiz's extradition for the 　　disappearance and murder of two French nuns during the last Argentine 　　dictatorship (1976-83). Then, the title sequence gives us the background for 　　Missionnaire's story: 'Sister Ivonne Pierron, comrade during those years of Alice 　　Domon and Léoni Duquet, the disappeared nuns, survived.' 　　The film shows in detail the beautiful and colourful landscape – green soil and 　　green vegetation – of this rural area, but also the deprivation of its inhabitants. 　　Most of them have small farms, put their produce commands insufficient prices in 　　the market. That is why they find it so hard to survive and many children have to 　　work. Within this context of poverty and deprivation, Sister Ivonne set up a 　　shelter for children where they receive education, have their meals and pray. The 　　film presents interviews with these children, their parents and their teachers. 　　Many of the children interviewed say that they would not be able to study if 　　Ivonne was not there with her shelter, because they live too far from the schools. 　　There are also sequences of classroom situations where the pupils learn about the 　　history of human rights in Argentina under the last military dictatorship. It is then 　　when Sister Ivonne explains to the pupils what 'dictatorship' means, and how the 　　concept should not only be applied to the military regime of late 1970s and early 　　1980s Argentina, but also to the 1990s because the government deprived people 　　of the possibility of surviving, and thus many peasants and shanty-town dwellers 　　died in indigence. Ivonne affirms that only the survivors of a dictatorship can tell 　　the true story. Photographs of Videla and Astiz are inserted, and in some of them 　　they are in churches, while Ivonne says that the Catholic Church sinned during 　　the last dictatorship because it did not take a position in relation to the ongoing 　　violation of Human Rights and did not condemn those responsible for them. 　　Ivonne considers herself a revolutionary as Jesus Christ and Che Guevara were, 　　and shows her photograph of Che – which was given to her by Che's father – 　　while she tells us that the shelter's children know who he was. There are long 　　interviews with Ivonne, in the last of which she explains her concept of 　　'liberation', drawing our attention to the fact that the poor are more liberated 　　from material wealth when they face death than the rich, and in this respect they 　　die freer than the rich. The film ends with the testimony of a mother who says 　　that Ivonne 'is another peasant, another nurse, another teacher. Ivonnne is 　　everything.'