Commemorate the Anniversary of the 1994 AMIA Bombing with "Anita"

Monday, July 18th, 2011 marks the 17th anniversary of the bombing of the Association Mutual Israelite Argentina (AMIA - the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina). This act is considered one of the most tragic anti-Semitic acts since World War II, where 85 civilians perished and over 300 were injured.

Acclaimed Argentine filmmaker Marcos Carnevale has crafted a film which reckons with these horrific events. Rather than trying to explain this national tragedy by dissecting the events themselves, Carnevale sought to tell this story through the purest of souls: a young Jewish woman with Down syndrome named Anita.

When the bomb goes off, Anita is separated from her family, and begins wandering through the city to find her way home. On her journey, Anita's gentle devotion and humble tranquility touches the lives of the strangers who take her in.

"ANITA is a movie that was born from a personal concern, from taking a glance at the society we live in, towards the men who inhabit it. ANITA represents us all. She is lost in a world that lives in constant confusion, in a world where men hate men, where fights over their territories happen on a daily basis, over their economical interests, over their ideologies, be them religious or political.

ANITA asks for peace. And so do I. That ANITA travels the world is our way of letting everyone know about our message of peace."
- Marcos Carnevale, director

Anita is now playing in Miami, FL; and opens soon in theaters all over South Florida, before continuing across the country. Check back to this website for the latest on where you can see Anita.

Click here to learn more about Anita.