Three Basque students have made a documentary summarizing the social explosion in Chile: "Surviving"
- Maddi Egizabal Rikondo, Karla Goikoetxea Valderrama and Ane Irurtia de Celis, students from the HUHEZI faculty of the University of Mondragón, were surprised by the social explosion that occurred in Chile for 6 months with an Erasmus scholarship. The trio has produced a documentary that gathers the chronicle of the days of tension in which they live.
Even though they had to be at home amid the harsh protests and riots of the early days, they decided to go out into the street and make the documentary after the local and international media proved that the information they were giving to the conflict was not the same. “In that harsh situation, we felt we had to do something for the generosity we received from the Chilean people from the first minute,” Maddi Egizabal explained in the presentation of the documentary that took place in the Sutegi Hall of Usurbil.
The protest started on October 18 at the Metro de Santiago by students in terms of transport costs became a social offensive that would take two months in a short time. Maddi, Karla and Ane try to reflect in the documentary “Surviving” the widespread anger of Chilean society.
The documentary is a clear picture of the economic and social shortages suffered by Chilean society. The documentary, of an hour and a half duration, contains testimonies of people who work in different areas, both at the individual level and at the level of agents. It addresses various issues that have been claimed in the protests (struggle for a public health and education system, mobilizations against male violence against women, repression of state forces and practice of torture...).
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