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Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman, world-renowned as a playwright/author/activist, is the subject of a film by Peter Raymont chronicling his return to Chile in 2006. Partially inspired by Dorfman’s memoir Heading South, Looking North, the film tells the story of a man whose life was shaped not only by his exile from Chile and the torture and death of his friends and allies, but by a life spent on the run. A a child, Dorfman and his family were forced to leave Argentina and flee to the US due to anti-semitism, only to have to flee the US to Chile when Dorfman’s father was named a communist in the age of McCarthyism. The film gives a voice to the memory, longing, experiences, and lessons of this famous writer. A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman, will be shown at Hallwalls on Saturday (Jan. 19) at 8pm. —eli george