Title : Enlightened by Fire Nationality : Argentina 103 min Genre : Drama Year : 2005 Director : Tristan Bauer Interpretation : Gaston Pauls, Pablo Ribba y Cesar Albarracin

San Sebastian 2005, Special Award
Tribeca Film Festival 2006, best movie
Goya 2006, best movie

Enlightened by Fire narrates the memories of a 40 year-old man, Esteban Leguizamon, who was sent to fight in the Falkland Islands in 1982 at the age of 18.

A friend’s attempted suicide triggers memories of war experiences shared with two young privates: Vargas, the suicide, and Juan, killed on the battlefield. Thus, not only the horrors of war itself, but the ailments of hunger and cold weather interweave with the stories of friendship and fellowship. Seen from Esteban’s point of view, the movie shows the slow and gradual immersion of their fragile lives into the heart of death itself. 20 years after the war, Esteban decides to return to the Islands to come to terms with his past and heal old wounds.