The Los Angeles Latin American Film Festival started on Friday night, and of the 132 films they are showing, one that is getting particular attention is the Argentine documentary “Nuestros Desaparecidos” (Our Disappeared).According to the Los Angeles Times, the film is about the “dirty war” under the country’s last military dictatorship from 1976 until 1983, when around 30,000 people were “disappeared” by the military.Juan Mandelbaum directed the film, which follows the story of Ines Kuperschmit, a girl whose parents were disappeared by the dictatorship when she was very young.She grew up with her aunt and, although she herself was never tortured or detained, she bears the scars of it on her consciousness.The film is powerful and dark and a reminder that the dirty war is still something Argentines are trying to accept from their past.

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