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99,99%

By Marina BELAUSTEGUI KELLER

996 FILMS - as PROD

Female director - Development 2025

“How would you feel if your siblings were kidnapped by a dictatorship?
Imagine having nephews taken by those military officers and not knowing where they are.”

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- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Female director, Second film, Documentary
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Marina BELAUSTEGUI KELLER
- Writer(s)
- Marina BELAUSTEGUI KELLER, Daniel CHOLAKIAN
- Cast
- Mariana HERRERA
- Producer(s)
- Mario DURRIEU (996 FILMS)
- Synopsis
- 99.99% is the index that indicates kinship in DNA studies. This value was discovered following a request from Estela de Carlotto, a Grandmother of Plaza de Mayo, to the Argentine biologist Víctor Penchaszadeh, then in exile. “You’re a geneticist, you’re Argentine, you’re an exile… YOU HAVE TO HELP US RECOGNIZE OUR GRANDCHILDREN,” she implored him. That encounter spurred the creation of the grandparentage index, a key scientific tool for identifying the children of the disappeared, and gave rise to the National Genetic Data Bank, a pioneer in the world.
  
  The director, marked by the disappearance of her siblings Valeria (24), José (23), and Martín Belaustegui (19) and their partner during the military dictatorship, asks: “How would you feel if one day your three siblings suddenly stopped calling you?”
  “99.99%” is an open visual letter woven with absence, memory, and love. An intimate plea to the children of two of her three disappeared siblings, born in captivity and appropriated at birth. There is evidence of their birth, but not of their fates. Today they live with false identities. The documentary follows the search of two cousins: Marina, a filmmaker, and Mariana, director of the National Genetic Data Bank. Together, they intertwine science and art to uncover a silenced history. They open traces of the past with the hope of recovering their stolen nephews and nieces and restoring their true identities. In present-day Argentina, where memory, human rights, and culture are at risk, this project seeks to build a bridge to the more than 300 babies born in captivity who are still missing. Recover.
  
  99.99% stems from the desire to find her nephews and restore their true identities. Or, at least, to leave a mark on them. An intimate journey through past and present that resonates with Latin American collective history.
- Beginning of shooting
- Feb 11, 2026
- End of shooting
- Apr 24, 2026

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