Documentaries
Bajo Juárez: La ciudad devorando a sus hijas
(The City Devouring its Daughters)
Cocalero
(Cocalero)
El espiritu de la colmena
(The Spirit of the Beehive)
El telon de azucar
(The Sugar Curtain)
Invisibles
(Invisibles)
Los Ladrones viejos: las leyendas del Artegio
(The Old Thieves: the Legends of Artegio)
Los puños de la nación
(The Fists of a Nation)
Lucio
(Lucio)
Mi vida dentro
(My Life Inside)
Un tigre de papel
(A paper tiger)
Bajo Juárez: La ciudad devorando a sus hijas (15)
(The City Devouring its Daughters)
Sun 9th, Wed 12th March
José Antonio Cordero, Alejandra Sánchez / Mexico / English & Spanish / 2006 / 96 mins
In Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez, hundreds of women have been murdered, their bodies dumped in plain sight. After years, the crimes still have not been solved. Through interviews with grieving parents, journalists who covered the story and, most tellingly, female government officials, the filmmakers expose a web of corruption, class and a fatal disregard of violence against women.
“The film’s innovative techniques command attention to the horrors perpetrated against grieving parents still desperate for answers.” 2007 Sundance Film Festival website
Screening as part of Ambulante in the UK, a selection of Latin American documentaries from Mexico's annual touring documentary festival, Ambulante (www.ambulante.com.mx).
Ambulante is a project of Canana, the production company run by Gael García Bernal, Pablo Cruz, and Diego Luna. With a big thanks to Ambulante Director, Elena Fortes.
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- Insituto Cervantes Manchester
- Metro
- University of Salford
- Journey Latin America