No Traces of Life

A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent but eloquent home movies.

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an ancient mulberry tree that once grew next to her grandfather’s house in historic Palestine, a tree that stands witness to her family’s existence.

Far from home, a young Burmese man struggles to escape the weight of a brutal and unforgiving military coup, threatening both his nation’s freedom and its very survival. Now, in Australia and unable to return home, he’s doing everything he can to stay connected to his people.

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the mistreatment of Palestinians, they battle the old guard to create a new movement opposing Israel’s occupation, and recentering Judaism itself.

Israel is governed by Orthodox civil law and yet hosts the world's biggest gay pride. Is this a cynical marketing ploy or a political awakening?

As an act of reparation and remembrance, victims and survivors of state terrorism recount how the clandestine detention center operated at the 4th Police Station in the city of Santa Fe during Argentina’s last civil-military dictatorship. Those who were detained there recount how, at that police station, the provincial police tortured, raped, murdered, and disappeared young people who had been abducted during illegal operations carried out in the city, in surrounding areas, and in northern Santa Fe.

On feminism and state terrorism. The case of Ana María Cámara, forcibly disappeared in Santa Fe, Argentina.

A documentary about the Teatro Abierto theater movement in La Matanza, Provincia de Buenos Aires, during Argentina's last dictatorship.

Delia Giovanola, one of the founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, recounts the initial search for kidnapped grandchildren during Argentina's last military dictatorship. After decades of searching, she shares new strategies to restitute the identities of those missing children, which are now adults.

Quinta Seré, previously known as Mansión Seré, is a sports club where a clandestine detention and torture center was working during Argentina's last militar dictatorship.

Sons and daughters of Argentinian exiles during the last dictatorship tell their story.

A young woman born in a democracy recovers the story of two American citizens who were detained during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina.