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Cuando cierro los ojos

When I Shut My Eyes
Latin American Documentary Films Official Competition
Mexico / 2019 / 63′ / Documental
Language: Spanish
Thematic: Human Rights
Section: FICDH-Human Rights
Director: Sergio Blanco y Michelle Ibaven
Contact: submissions@imcine.gob.mx
Synopsis:

Adela and Marcelino are in isolation, a common experience for speakers of indigenous languages, who are prosecuted without access to an interpreter by the Mexican justice system. Victims of a corrupt Mexican police force, they finally reveal, through vivid dreams and memories of their land and loved ones, the tragic story they couldn’t tell a judge.

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