The Crosses + Q&A
Only days after the 1973 military coup against the Allende government, a group of nineteen union members in a paper factory were disappeared without trace. The case remained a mystery for forty years, until a policeman involved in the massacre finally broke the pact of silence. Taking his confession alongside testimony from the victimsâ families âall voiced by actorsâthe filmmakers forensically unravel the events leading to the murders, using stark 16mm photography to depict the landscape like a crime scene. A bold and formally rigorous work, The Crosses bravely unearths a dark moment in Chileâs political history that for years had been buried in silence.
UK Premiere
Supported by Cervantes Institute London
Followed by a Q&A with co-director Carlos VĂĄsquez MĂ©ndez, hosted by Laura Allsop, a writer and critic based in London, whose writing has appeared in Dazed, AnOther and Sight & Sound
Read an essay on The Crosses by Jaime Grijalba