Splinters

On November 3, 1995, Natalia Garayalde was 12 years old. She is shooting playful short films with her father’s video camera, staging herself as a reporter and becoming the family’s chronicler. They live in Río Tercero, Argentina, in the shadow of the local war weapons factory. On this day in November, everything changes with a huge explosion: shell fragments rain down on the town, reducing everything to rubble. Natalia becomes a war correspondent from the center of a national tragedy that would be followed by countless private ones, delayed over the next 20 years. (Jens Geiger)… >>>