Project Scar: "Awareness and empowerment workshops for survivors of sexual abuse and violence in San Juan, Argentina. A pilot experience" by Córdoba, Dolores, Graffigna, Carla, Vega, Sandra

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The gaze by the camera / Cinema, puberty scenes and juvenile sexual theories by Bonnet, Christian, Chevalier, Julie, Vollon, Clarisse, Gimenez, Guy

“…Olga describes in turn the gaze of a character from the film, atthe same time as she deploys her gaze in the space of the session and offering herself to the analyst’s gaze with the sign of a wound on her body.This wound constitutes her like a heroine with a scar, that is to say, a carrier of a sign, a mark, even a Blazon of the female body. …”
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A disturbing origin by Amatriain, Lucía, Domínguez, María Elena

“…Harry Potter carries on his body the scar of a disturbing origin. It carries secrets that himself does not know… but at the age of ten, a letter arrives at its destination and the lies about his family history begin to be revealed. …”
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Traumatic flights, imaginary parents and neurotic bourgeoisie by Conrod, Frédéric

“…Damián Szifrón’s blockbuster Wild Tales came to the box office as a landmark in Argentinian cinema, not only because it reveals a deep gaze on the aggressive nature of a culture that self-repressed its traumas, but also because every Western culture can contemplate ethically its own scars in this collection of anecdotic tales. Only the fact that Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar would want to produce the work of his young Argentinian counterpart says a lot about the necessity to utilize cinema as a chock therapy where the audience confronts its own wild and primitive nature (The Freudian Id), hidden in its deep interior through centuries of accumulated repression. …”
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