Overview
- Belén, directed by Dolores Fonzi, was selected by the Academia de Cine de la Argentina as the country’s submission for the Oscars’ Best International Feature race.
- Atwood congratulated the film on X and summarized its focus on a patient treated for a hemorrhage who was later convicted of abortion before the sentence was overturned.
- Her message questioned whether similar outcomes could face women in the United States following the loss of federal abortion protections in 2022.
- Fonzi publicly thanked Atwood with green hearts, referencing the symbol of Argentina’s abortion-rights movement.
- The film adapts Ana Correa’s book Somos Belén, features a screenplay by Laura Paredes, stars Camila Plaate, and revisits a case that became emblematic in the campaign leading to Argentina’s 2020 legalization.