Pablo Martínez Pessi
2021In 2016, Martínez Pessi toured internationally with Your Parents Will Come Back, bringing the documentary film to audiences in more than 26 European and American cities. The tour was endorsed by the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organization of Ibero-American States for their “Educate on Memory to Build the Future” program.
Tus Padres Volverán
Pablo Martínez Pessi
Cecilia Rodríguez, Fernando De Meersman
In 1983 a group of 154 children aged 3 and 17 years old traveled alone from Europe to Montevideo. They were children of political exiles from Uruguay, who were unable to come back to their own country; they sent their kids to know their relatives and home country. That human sign, charged with a political message, took part in children’s identity development. Nowadays, six of them still remember that day, when a crowd received them singing all together “your parents will come back”.
Your Parents Will Come Back
El Viento Nos Dejará
Pablo Martínez Pessi
Through 12 testimonies, the settlers of a small city tell their experience with a devastating tornado that struck them and devoured everything in its path, leaving a wound that remains capriciously and seeks for healing among so much rubble and lost history.
The Wind Will Leave Us
Desde las Aguas
Pablo Martínez Pessi
Villa Santo Domingo de Soriano was founded in 1624 by the first Europeans in the Banda Oriental (which is now Uruguay). This documentary re-discovers the settlement with a visit to its inhabitants and its houses, on the banks of the silent Rio Negro. The reality of this place is a reflection of a country's identity, as it tries to recover what it once was without giving up the will to prosper.
From the Waters
