Bodies On The Border
Forensics experts in Arizona struggle to identify the bodies of migrants who perished while attempting to cross illicitly from Mexico into the United States.
Forensics experts in Arizona struggle to identify the bodies of migrants who perished while attempting to cross illicitly from Mexico into the United States.
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Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered t-shirt they expose a tattoo that reads ‘Dayani Cristal’. Who is this person? What brought them here? How did he die? And who - or what - is Dayani Cristal? As the forensic investigation unfolds, Mexican actor and activist Gael Garcia Bernal retraces this man’s steps along the migrant trail in Central America. Winner of Sundance 2013 Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary and the Amnesty International Best Documentary Award 2014.
This short follows on from The Invisibles, a series of films about human rights abuses of migrants traveling through Mexico on their way to the US. We asked members of the public in Mexico City ‘if you had to leave your country and could only take one thing, what would it be?’ Their responses starkly contrast answers given by migrants whose request for socks led to the launch of the campaign www.sendsocks.org
Every year tens of thousands of women, men and children travel through Mexico without legal permission. As ‘invisible’ migrants they head for the US border in the hope of finding a new life far from the poverty they've left behind. Their journey is one of the most dangerous in the world.
Every year tens of thousands of women, men and children travel through Mexico without legal permission. As ‘invisible’ migrants they head for the US border in the hope of finding a new life far from the poverty they've left behind. Their journey is one of the most dangerous in the world.
Every year tens of thousands of women, men and children travel through Mexico without legal permission. As ‘invisible’ migrants they head for the US border in the hope of finding a new life far from the poverty they've left behind. Their journey is one of the most dangerous in the world.
Every year tens of thousands of women, men and children travel through Mexico without legal permission. As ‘invisible’ migrants they head for the US border in the hope of finding a new life far from the poverty they've left behind. Their journey is one of the most dangerous in the world.