Every Document Of Civilization

Changing the Things One Cannot Accept

Original title: Todo documento de civilización

Argentina, 90 minutes, 2024, experimental documentary

Director: Tatiana Mazú González

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A crossroads of avenues that is, at the same time, the border between the city of Buenos Aires and its suburbs. Every night, thousands of people cross it on their way home from work. Buses, traffic lights, asphalt, concrete, a rusty sign. Someone going to school, someone selling bread. Street lights and electoral propaganda. Cell phone and hamburger advertising. Garbage and a lady selling flowers. The story of a mother who lost her son in the hands of the police confronts the image of normality. Her struggle and her voice draw the imaginary worlds of Jules Verne, which they fantasized about together. This film is a process of excavation. Or the dissection of the landscape where, fifteen years ago, the State disappeared Luciano Arruga.

Content warning: descriptions of police violence, death

Film screening dates: 23.11.2025 — 07.12.2025
Close-up, black-and-white portrait. A woman looks at the camera. Her dark hair is tied in two high buns, with two thin braids resting on her shoulders, and her bangs are cut very short. She is wearing large glasses with a light frame, round earrings, and a kufiya. She is slightly smiling with lips tinted in a bold shade of lipstick.

Tatiana Mazú González

Buenos Aires, 1989. She lives on the outskirts of the city among cats and plants. She’s a documentary-experimental filmmaker and teacher who works with image and sound in a broad sense.

A feminist and leftist activist, who once wanted to be a biologist or a geographer: today her imaginary explores the links between people and spaces, the microscopic and the immense, the personal and the political, the infantile and the obscure. She films, photographs, draws, designs, and sews.

She’s part of the collective Antes Muerto Cine and R.A.T.A – Anarchist Audiovisual Workers’ Network.

Her films El estado de las cosas (2012, together with Joaquín Maito), La Internacional (2015), Caperucita roja (2019), Río Turbio (Prix Georges de Beauregard FID Marseille 2020) and Todo Documento de Civilización (Prix Georges de Beauregard FID Marseille 2024) have been screened and awarded at Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, FICValdivia, FICUNAM, DocLisboa, Festifreak, Cinélatino. Rencontres de Toulouse, Anthology Films Archive, among many other venues.

She’s editor of Manuel Embalse’s Las ruinas nuevas (MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2024), Joaquín Maito’s Retrato de propietarios (together with Manuel Embalse, Best Debut Film at IDFF Ji.hlava 2018), Delfina Carlota Vázquez’s Can a Mountain Recall (RIDM 2021, É tudo verdade 2021), Sebastián Zanzottera’s Fire in the Sea (Visions du Réel 2022) and Julián Galay’s A Seismic Silence (2023). She accompanied Manuel Embalse in the editing of his feature film ¿Qué hago en este mundo tan visual? (2020).

Other films in the program

The Repressed

Ukraine, 26 minutes, 2025, documentary essay

Directors: Maryna Ya, Kostiantyn Maleonyuk

For homeless people, urban space becomes a place to live. They live in parks, squares, manholes, and abandoned buildings. The city becomes a home. A bench becomes a bed, a dumpster a source of food, and fountains a shower. “The Repressed” is a compilation of stories from homeless people in Odesa about their dreams, fears, hopes, and anxieties.

Offside: An Unequal Game

Switzerland, 14 minutes, 2024, documentary

Director: Katja Stirnemann

The filmmaker is fed up; she questions gender codes in sports. Material from her personal family archives meets found footage. As old codes are dismantled, the remaining pieces are formed into new questions.

Sisters

Italy, 67 minutes, 2023, documentary

Director: Marianna Fumai

Sisters explores the situation of abortion access in Italy, Poland, and Malta, highlighting the solidarity response provided by national and international collectives and organizations, working together to ensure the right to self-determination and reproductive health for those in need.

Our Joyful Endings

France, 6 minutes, 2025, documentary, experimental

Directors: Levon Babayan, La Fille Renne

Our Joyful Endings follows the diary of a trans-masculine person who sees his own and others’ views of his body change during his transition.