Costa Gavras’ 1982 movie Missing revolves around the mysterious disappearance of an American journalist Charles Horman in the aftermath of US-sponsored military coup in Chile in 1973 that deposed the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende. The movie traces the concerted search of Charles by his father Edmund and his wife Beth who have opposing worldviews. Apart from their collective effort to find Charles, the movie also examines their contrasting views about the US. It also shows how in the process of finding his missing son Edmund’s views about his own country changes. The impact of this movie can be gauged from the fact that it was banned in Chile during the regime of Augusto Pinochet who became the country’s military dictator after the 1973 coup. Hyderabad Cinephiles is screening this movie in the context of recent US attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president Nicolas Maduro. The screening will be followed by a discussion in which, along with the content and craft of the movie, we will also discuss about the long history of US intervention in Latin America and other parts of the world and the changing global order.

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗲𝗯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆) 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟬𝟲:𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗮𝗻, 𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆