On the night of September 26, 2014, a convoy of students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in drug cartelafflicted Guerrero state, travelling in buses in the city of Iguala, were brutally attacked by police forces and other masked assailants. In the course of the night, six people were killed, dozens more were wounded, and 43 students were forcibly disappeared. Ai Weiwei portrays the human impact of Mexico’s ongoing crisis of enforced disappearances.
Presented at Sundance and CPH:DOX film festivals.
Vivos
2020
16 years
112 min.
Documentary
Germany, Mexico
Germany, Mexico, documentary, drugs, drug trafficking, retrato social
Colorido
Ai Weiwei
Ernesto Pardo, Carlos F. Rossini, Bruno Santamaria Razo, Ai Weiwei, Ma Yan
Niels Pagh Andersen
Ai Weiwei
AWW Germany
Jens Bjornkjaer
Cinephil
44