Argentine banner advertising agency Gaman Cine and Fior Studio are partnering with Spain’s L’Ororo on the documentary “La Otra Voz” (“Another Voice”) about legendary Argentine folk protest singer Mercedes Sosa.
Producers Emiliano Torres and Nicolas Hill Labedra led Gaman Cine’s The Other Voices, with European coordination by Fiold Studio, along with Perez Real and Felitas Raffo of L’Ororo.
Gaman Cine was founded by Torres and Gil Labedra, who are notable filmmakers in their own right, with credits including Torres’ 2016 San Sebastian Special Jury Prize winner The Winter, and Labedra’s 2024 San Sebastian Festival highlights Como El Mar and Traslados.
The film, directed by Agustina Pérez Real (Danubio) and produced in collaboration with the Mercedes Sosa Foundation, will chronicle her exile, blending personal memory and political history through her never-before-seen letters and photographs.
“The Other Voice” is one of 12 projects selected to be pitched at the next edition of the co-production platform Proyecta, to be held at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur this December, in collaboration with Cannes’ Marché du Film and the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The film has received major international support in its development, including support from the IDFA Berta Fund, the Mecenazgo and Metropolitan City Fund of Buenos Aires, the INCAA Digital Feature Documentary Award, and Orillas Nuevas / Nouveau Rivages of the French Embassy in Argentina.
Filming is scheduled for mid-2026 in Argentina and Spain, and early 2027 in France.
The film, written and directed by Pérez Real, reconstructs the story of Sosa’s exile in 1978, when he was arrested during a concert in La Plata and later forced to flee Argentina’s dictatorship. From Paris and Madrid, hotels and planes, she wrote hundreds of letters to her confidant Hugo, sharing her thoughts on art, exile, and identity.
Made from an archive of more than 100 newly discovered letters and thousands of photographs taken by Sosa herself, the film offers an epistolary portrait of the woman behind the icon, narrated by her granddaughter Araceli Matus, who also appears on screen.
“This project was born out of access to unpublished personal archives that Mercedes Sosa’s granddaughter entrusted to me over the past two years,” said Perez Real. “Combined with my experience in archival documentary film, it provides a singular, intimate and political portrait of the woman behind the icon.”
Several documentaries have already been made about Sosa’s exile, including Stefan Paul’s Será posible el sur: Mercedes Sosa, which chronicles his return tour from exile in the mid-’80s, and Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America (2013), which premiered at DOC NYC.
Gaman Cine has evolved into one of Argentina’s leading film production companies, with credits including Paz Encina’s Rotterdam Tiger Award winner “Eami”, Hermann Schwarckwald’s “LS83”, winner of the Ciudad de Buenos Aires Award at BAFICI 2025, and “La Tierra Prometida”, selected for the 2022 Berlinale Copro Series.
“We aim to create auteur films with a unique vision that combine aesthetic rigor and relevance to the times,” said Gaman’s Torres. “Our model combines public funding, strategic partnerships and co-production schemes to increase reach and scale while maintaining creative control.”
Based in Spain, L’Ororo is a film production company founded in 2017 by Felicitas Raffo following his production experience at CEPA Cine, an indie production company he co-founded with Andrés Longárez in 2005.
