Films, documentaries, literary texts and popular music pieces about missing people

02/09/2014

Enforced disappearance is one of the most striking forms of state violence and terror in the world, and therefore its application is not limited to Turkey. Below is a compilation of films, documentaries, popular songs and literary works about disappeared persons from around the world, with a view to enhance a more universal understanding of this state-crime.

Films

  • filmMissing (1982) – Director: Costa-Gavras, USA
  • Night of the Pencils / La noche de los lápices (1986) – Director: Héctor Olivera, Argentina.
  • The Official Story / La Historia Oficial (1985) – Director: Luis Puenzo, Argentina.
  • A Wall of Silence/ Un Muro de Silencio (1993) – Director: Lita Stantic, Argentina.
  • La muerte y la doncella / Death and the Maiden (1994) Director: Roman Polanski, USA, Britain, France.
  • The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997) – Director: Marcos Zurinaga, Spain, USA.
  • Imagining Argentina (2003) – Director: Christopher Hampton, Spain, Britain, USA.
  • The Year My Parents Went on Vacation / O Ano em Que Meus Pais
  • Saíram de Férias (2006) – Director: Cao Hamburger, Brasil.
  • Rendition (2007) – Director: Gavin Hood, USA.
  • Dukot (2009) – Director: Joel Lamangan, Phillipines.
  • The Simpsons Season 12, Episode 6: The Computer Wore Menace Shoes (2000) – Director: Mark Kirkland, USA.
  • Clandestine Childhood / Infancia clandestines (2011), Director: Benjamin Avila, Argentina – Spain – Brasil.
  • The Day I Was Not Born / Das Lied in Mir (2011), Director: Florian Cossen, Germany-Argentina

Documentaries

  • Buka-AfisNostalgia de la luz/Nostalgia for the Light (2010) – Director: Patricio Guzman, France, Germany, Chile, Spain, USA.
  • Ormancik (2014), Sterk TV.
  • 33 Yillik Direnis Berfo Ana / Berxwedana 33 Salan-Dayika Berfo (2014) Director: Veysi Altay, Turkey.
  • Buka Barane (2013) Director: Dilek Gökçin, Turkey
  • Sabah Yıldızı Sabahattin Ali Belgeseli (2012) Director: Metin Avdaç, Turkey
  • Nuestros Desaparecidos / Our Disappeared (2008) Director: Juan Mandelbaum, Argentina

Literature

  • Catch-22Catch-22. (1961) Author: Joseph Heller.
  • Darkness at Noon. (1940) Author: Arthur Koestler
  • The Disappeared. (2009) Author: Kim Echlin.
  • Grafitti, from the book ‘Queremos tanto a Glenda’. (1980) Author: Julio Cortázar.
  • Información para extranjeros/Information for Foreigners (1995) Author: Griselda Gambaro.
  • When Darkness Falls. (2007) Author: James Grippando
  • La muerte y la doncella /Death and the Maiden (1991) Author: Ariel Dorfman (1991)
  • The Ministry of Special Cases. (2007). Written by Nathan Englander
  • Mi hija Dagmar / My daughter Dagmar (1984). Author: Hagelin Ragmar.
  • Widows (1981) Author: Ariel Dorfman
  • Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (2011). Author: Ariel Dorfman
  • José (1987) Author: Matilde Herrera.
  • Dirty Secrets, Dirty Wars: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976-83: the Exile of Editor Robert J. Cox (2008) Author: David Cox

Research

  • libro-nunca-masA Lexicon of Terror (1998) Author: Marguerite Feitlowitz
  • Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina (1999) Author: Rita Arditti
  • Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared by Argentine National Commission on Disappeared (1984) CONADEP
  • Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (2002) Author: Jacobo Timerman
  • The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina (1979) Author: Alicia Partnoy
  • A State of Fear (1986) Author: Andrew Graham-Yooll
  • The Condor Years (2003) Author: John Dinges
  • We Need The Truth: Enforced Disappearances in Asia (2009) Editor: Katharina Lauritsch
  • Enforced Disappearances in International Human Rights (2006) Author: Maria Fernanda Perez Solla
  • Beyond Tears and Borders: Tracking Enforced Disappearances (2013) Asian Federation Against –Involuntary Disappearances

Popular Music 

  • U2-Joshua-Tree“Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida“, Album “Live from El Salvador”, Holly Near (with Barbara Higbie).
  • “Desaparecidos“, Album “Voice of America”, Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul.
  • “Desapariciones” Rubén Blades (also played by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Maná).
  • “Mothers of the Disappeared” Album “The Joshua Tree”, U2.
  • “They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)” Album “Nothing Like the Sun”, Sting.
  • “The Circle (Song for Layla Al-Attar and los Olividados)“, Kris Kristofferson.
  • “Undercover of the Night“, The Rolling Stones
  • Cumartesi Türküsü / Sezen Aksu
  • Beni Bul Anne / Ahmet Kaya
  • Benim Annem Cumartesi / Bandista

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