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A documentary by Pablo Martínez Pessi won an award at the Third Dominican Republic and Caribbean Documentary Film Festival

March 31, 2016
The documentary *Tus padres volverán* (Your Parents Will Return), by Pablo Martínez Pessi, a graduate of the Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication, was awarded Best Latin American Documentary at the Third Dominican Republic and Caribbean Documentary Film Festival, which took place from March 10 to 17, 2016, in Santo Domingo. Additionally, it won the Prix du Jury Jeune at the 18th Rencontres du Cinéma Sud-Américain. This event, organized by the association Solidarité Provence Amérique du Sud, took place from March 18 to 26 in Marseille, France. 

The film recounts the 1983 visit to Uruguay by 154 children who had been exiled during the last military dictatorship.

These children flew alone from Europe to Montevideo. They were the children of Uruguayan political exiles, who traveled that year to meet their relatives and see their country of origin. Since then, six of those children are still trying to reconstruct their identities, because they have lived a life in retreat, repeatedly abandoning what they have clung to.

Your Parents Will Return tells the stories of Cecilia Rodríguez—born in Cuba—Salvador Banchero—born in Buenos Aires—Marcos Medina—based in Belgium—Jorge Garibaldi—based in Denmark—Guzmán Tierno—based in Italy—and Fernando De Meersman—who, according to him, “still doesn’t know where he belongs in the world.”