Angelina Vásquez

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Angelina Vásquez (born 1950) is a Chilean documentary filmmaker who was exiled to Finland following the 1973 Chilean coup but returned to film clandestinely during the Pinochet dictatorship in the early 1980s. Like Marilú Mallet in Canada and Valeria Sarmiento in France, she is notable as one of the first Chilean women film directors, emerging in the early 1970s but producing most of her work in exile.

12-05-1950

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Chile

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12-05-1950

Birthday

Taurus

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Total Films

Also Known As (female)

Chile

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Fragmentos de un diario inacabado

The diary of a trip - interrupted - of the director to Chile, made during the social explosion of the eighties: Expelled from the country after her semi-clandestine entry was discovered by the intelligence services, it was completed from a distance. It is one of the first returns from exile and a fundamental antecedent of the first-person documentary in Chile.

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1983

Fragmentos de un diario inacabado

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1983

Apuntes nicaragüenses

Anita Mikkonen, a Finnish brigadista in Nicaragua's literacy campaign, returns to the highlands of San Andres, where she meets again the men, women and children who shared their homes, their food and their history with her.

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1982

Presencia lejana

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

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1982

Presencia lejana

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

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1982

Gracias a la vida (o la pequeña historia de una mujer maltratada)

The story of a Chilean refugee, marked by imprisonment and torture, illustrates the tragedy suffered by victims of violence in Latin America during the years of dictatorship.

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1980

Gracias a la vida (o la pequeña historia de una mujer maltratada)

The story of a Chilean refugee, marked by imprisonment and torture, illustrates the tragedy suffered by victims of violence in Latin America during the years of dictatorship.

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1980

Así nace un desaparecido

Based on María Vesterinen's drawings, it tells the story of the kidnapping of men and women in Chile and the search for their missing relatives.

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1977

Flores S.A.

A man, his garden of flowers and a salesman.

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Two Years in Finland

Portrait of the Chilean community in Finland from the perspective of the director, a political exile after the 1973 coup d'état.

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1975

Two Years in Finland

Portrait of the Chilean community in Finland from the perspective of the director, a political exile after the 1973 coup d'état.

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1975

Crónica del salitre

Story of the history of the workers' movement in the saltpeter offices of northern Chile. The voices of the workers are heard, with images of the mining sites.

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1971

Crónica del salitre

Story of the history of the workers' movement in the saltpeter offices of northern Chile. The voices of the workers are heard, with images of the mining sites.

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1971