86-year-old Laura Bonaparte, the director’s grandmother, fought against the Argentine military junta from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Back then she knew the difference between right and wrong all too well. Today she has advanced Alzheimer’s disease and is looked after by nurses in a care home. She no longer recognizes the members of her family, and has forgotten that her husband and three of their children were kidnapped by the military dictatorship and never returned. She founded the Madres de Plaza de Mayo movement and stood day after day on the main square in Buenos Aires holding up the photos of her missing family and protesting tirelessly against the historical amnesia. Finally, she emigrated to Mexico.

Time Suspended recounts the historical oblivion of a whole country and the memory of one woman who fought tirelessly for the investigation of state crimes in Argentina. Her granddaughter Natalia Bruschtein, using cinematic footage and letters that Bonaparte wrote to friends and other victims, allows her grandmother to tell her own story about her life as an activist.

Awards for  ›Tiempo suspendido‹ (Auswahl)
Iberoamerican Documentary Jury’s Special Award, FIPRESCI Award, Special Mention Mezcal Award – Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2015 | Special Mention Mexican Documentary – Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato 2015 | Public Prize – Festival de la Memoria. Documental Iberoamericano 2015 | Best Documentary Award – Budapest International Documentary Film Festival 2015 | Golden Plaque Documentary – Chicago International Film Festival 2015