29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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The Space Shuttle Challenger
The Space Shuttle Challenger

The Space Shuttle Challenger

Cecilia Araneda / Canada / 2017 / International Premiere / 9 min.


synopsis

Diary collages combine the emotions from important events such the interrogation of prisoners at Guantánamo, the Challenger disaster and the putsch in Chile with personal memories from the same points in time to create an interplay of large and small history.

“I used footage of Chile’s Tancazo in my previous film. I later discovered the story behind that footage and was compelled to weave it into this film, originally intended to be a piece only about Omar Khadr.” C. Araneda

biography

Cecilia Araneda (1970) was born in Chile, from which her family fled to Canada after the military coup. She studied screenwriting in Canada, where she continues to live and work today. In her deeply personal short films, which she accompanies with her own commentary, she often expresses her childhood memories. The Ji.hlava IDFF previously showed her film What Comes Between (2009), in which she returned to Pinochet’s coup d’état.

more about film

director: Cecilia Araneda
producer: Cecilia Araneda
editing: Chad Tremblay

contact

WINNIPEG FILM GROUP / Monica Lowe / 304 - 100 Arthur Street / Winnipeg / Canada / +1 2049253456103 / distribution@winnipegfilmgroup.com / www.winnipegfilmgroup.com

Film at festival

premiere type:International Premiere
festival edition:2017
section:Fascinations
format:Video File
language:English
colour:Colour and B&W

Info

director:Cecilia Araneda
original title:The Space Shuttle Challenger
country:Canada
year:2017
running time:9 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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