Why the patients of the Clinic for mental diseases in Buenos Aires re-elected Carlos Mehnem for a president without liking him? A documentary on the Argentine’s elections for president in 2003.

26 April 2003.
Radio La Colifata in a mental clinic in Buenos Aires has organized symbolic elections for a president just a day before the real and official ones.

Radio La Colifata, which in Buenos Aires slang means Crazy Radio - the first radio show in the world to broadcast live from a mental hospital.

Alfredo Olivera, a psychologist who created Radio La Colifata, has started to use a simple small Dictaphone as a Speech therapy. More than a therapy, the show has proven popular with an estimated 12 million listeners. Away from the media limelight, the hospital says the show has had great therapeutic results.

Saturday afternoon in Buenos Aires: tucked away behind the towering, prison-like Jose Borda psychiatric hospital, a large group of people is gathering. The Radio La Colifata team are now organizing symbolic elections for a President.

A look deep in the origins of Democracy seen from inside a mental hospital where the patients do not have civil rights to vote.

A documentary on the issue of having a choice, on the issue of ballots, right to participate and the meaning of voting…

July 1 (Friday) 2005, 7.30 pm
The Red House Center for Culture and Debate
English subtitles, Bulgarian translation.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN or with journalist cards

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