"Belén" — Read The Screenplay By Laura Paredes & Dolores Fonzi
When the System Fails, Her Story Refuses to Disappear.
"Belén" (2025) is a piercing, quietly devastating drama inspired by the real experiences of women navigating Argentina’s long shadow of disappearances. The story follows Belén, a young domestic worker wrongfully detained after a miscarriage, whose arrest ignites a political storm and a fight for her dignity. Through unhurried scenes and devastating restraint, the screenplay exposes the machinery of class, patriarchy, and state power — and the fragile hopes that survive inside it.
Tender, political, and unflinchingly human, "Belén" gives voice to the silenced and turns a single injustice into a universal demand to be seen.
"Belén" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
Turning Injustice Into Drama: Writing Politics Through the Personal.
"Belén" is an example of political storytelling through human scale. Instead of courtroom theatrics or melodrama, the script focuses on the intimate textures of Belén’s life -- her routines, her relationships, and the terrifying quiet of incarceration. By keeping the story grounded in emotion rather than exposition, the screenplay transforms structural violence into lived experience.
For writers, "Belén" offers a blueprint for ethical political drama, showing how to turn real-world injustice into narrative without exploitation, sensationalism, or simplification.
Belén (2025) — Classroom Study
"Belén" tells the story of a young Argentine domestic worker who is wrongfully arrested after a miscarriage -- an event that becomes a battle between one woman’s humanity and the systems designed to erase her. Inspired by real cases of criminalized miscarriage and institutional neglect, the screenplay exposes how class, gender, and bureaucracy intersect to destroy lives in silence. Rather than leaning into melodrama, the film adopts a restrained, observational approach. We watch Belén’s world shrink -- from her job to the courtroom to the cold fluorescent stillness of a prison cell -- while the outside world debates her as if she were an idea instead of a person. For screenwriting students, "Belén" is a vital study in ethical political storytelling, focusing on the human experience beneath headlines, statistics, and legal jargon.
- Writing social justice narratives responsibly.
- Depicting class and gender in contemporary drama.
- Using minimalism and realism in screenwriting.
- The ethics of adapting real-world trauma.
- How to create tension without traditional antagonists.
- The impact of setting in political storytelling.
"Belén" One Sheet & Script Intel
A woman hospitalized for pain discovers she's pregnant. After a medical emergency, she faces criminal charges. With support from her attorney and women's rights advocates, she fights for justice in a landmark case that could change lives. Amazon
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FYC
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| Version | ... | FINALEnglish |
| Date | ... | 11.05.2025 |
| Pages | ... | 109 |
| Genres | ... | Crime Drama Based on Real Life |
| Screenplay | ... | Laura Paredes Dolores Fonzi |
| IMDb ID | ... | 37531036 |
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