Archival Trials
IDFA ReFrame Award @UnArchive

UnArchive Found Footage Fest hosts the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award from the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

The Trial

El juicio

Ulises De la Orden / Argentina, France, Italy, Norway / 2023 / 177’ / Spanish, English, French | Italian subtitles


1985. Two years after the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina, prominent members of the junta are tried in court. Ulises de la Orden creates 18 chapter edited from 530 hours of footage, bearing witness to state terror.

Screenplay Ulises de la Orden
Editing Alberto Ponce
Photography Pablo Parra
Producer Ulises de la Orden
Production La Sarraz Pictures Srl, Les Films d’Ici, Dag Hoel, Polo Sur Cine (AR)
Coproducer Alessandro Borrelli, Richard Copans, Dag Hoel
Executive producer Ulises de la Orden

Ulises de la Orden

Ulises de la Orden started his career in film in 1991, as an occasional actor in short films made by friends, and running cables for slightly larger productions, music videos and ads. His first big gig was shining 5 000 pairs of boots for Evita, by Alan Parker, with later led him to work in Budapest and London, to later return to Argentina and work on Seven Years in Tibet. Since 1998, with his production company, Polo Sur Cine, he has been doing his own projects, which have taken him to places as diverse as Hungary, France, England, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada, the United States, Paraguay, Chile and all of Argentina. Always seeking to tell the stories that touch his heart, in connection with the environment, indigenous peoples and the most pressing social and political issues.

June 2 10:30 pm.
Cinema Intrastevere Hall 1
Meeting with the author and
Joost Daamen, IDFA Senior Programmer, in connection

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