In this article we analyze the Uruguayan-Mexican documentary Siete Instantes (Diana Cardozo, 2008), based on interviews with ex-Uruguayan political activists, especially women, who report their experiences in the authoritarian and dictatorial context of that country. We seek to emphasize its character as a historical document, focusing on the political moment of its production, in which politics of memories hatch. We also raise some questions about the specificity of the female vision that builds through the film elements and the dialogue that establishes with some debates present in the historiography about the period.