Doc.MIS is the Museum's monthly documentary program featuring screenings followed by conversations with filmmakers and subject experts. Through responsible audiovisual storytelling, the initiative encourages reflection and broadens perspectives on overlooked historical moments, themes, and figures. August's edition presents "Benedetti, 60 Years with Light", a documentary making its Brazilian premiere in partnership with the Uruguayan Consulate. The film chronicles the love story of Benedetti, one of the most significant writers in Uruguayan and Latin American literature, a narrative he never publicly told. A discussion with [...] will follow the screening.
About the film Benedetti, 60 Years with Light (dir. Andrés Varela, 202, 80 min, Uruguay, unrated)
Mario and Luz met as teenagers. He became one of Latin America's greatest writers; she worked in public service. Over six decades, they shared exile, success, failure, friendships, and love. After seventy-eight books, Luz dies following Alzheimer's disease. Confronting the loss of his lifelong companion, Mario Benedetti writes his final words while learning to live with absence, eventually withdrawing into silence during his final years.
Mario Benedetti was a leading figure in twentieth-century Latin American literature. As a Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and journalist, he crafted a body of work distinguished by its sensitivity in portraying human relationships, love, memory, exile, and the political and social transformations of his era. Across more than six decades, he published over 80 books translated into numerous languages, becoming one of the most widely read and respected Spanish-language authors globally. His best-known works include "The Truce", "Spring with a Broken Corner", and "Gracias por el fuego".
