WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? (¿Quién es Dayani
Cristal?)
Marc Silver / Mexico, USA
/ 85 min / 2014 / English and Spanish with English subtitles
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Ronk Shar Lecture 7:00 PM
Deep in the
sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police
discover a decom
posing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt they expose a
tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here?
How did he die? And who—or what—is Dayani Cristal? Following a team of
dedicated forensic anthropologists from the Pima County Morgue in Arizona,
director Marc Silver seeks to answer these questions and give this anonymous
man an identity. As the forensic investigation unfolds, Mexican actor and
activist Gael Garcia Bernal retraces this man’s steps along the migrant trail
in Central America. In an effort to understand what it must have felt like to
make this final journey, he embeds himself among migrant travelers on their own
mission to cross the border. He experiences first-hand the dangers they face
and learns of their motivations, hopes and fears. As we travel north, these
voices from the other side of the border wall give us a rare insight into the
human stories, which are so often ignored in the immigration debate. Winner of
the Sundance 2013 Cinematography award and nominated in the World Documentary
Competition,
Who Is Dayani Cristal? shows how one life becomes
testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.
The Spanish language film festival has been made possible thanks
to the generosity of the Pragda Spanish Film club grant and thanks to the
collaboration of the Departments of Foreign Languages, English, History and
Political Sciences, Global Education, The Center for Nonviolence, AU Core,
Philosophy Club and Phi Sigma Iota.
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