Last Thursday May 18 the documentary was released in movie theaters in the country “To see you again” from the director Carolina Corral Paredes and the producer Magali Rocha Donnadieuwhich also developed the short documentary “It’s raining”, which can also be seen from the May 10 at FilminLatino and that it will also be in movie theaters. Both projects with different histories, are connected in the same context, the dozens of bodies that Morelos Prosecutor’s Office secretly buried in the year 2017. If you want to see the project, in FICG Film Library is available.
By the way THE REPORTER spoke with the filmmakers about these film projects. “See you again” follows Lina, Angy and Edithtwo mothers and a sister of missing persons, who are trained as forensic experts to be able to participate in the exhumation of more than 200 bodies that the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office secretly buried in Jojutla. While “It Rains” is an animated documentary that tells the story of María, a mother who discovers that the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office buried her son and 115 other bodies in a hidden and irregular grave in Tetelcingo.
Magali points out that she and Carolina have been working together for a long time, even before making films they were activism. “We were in the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity that emerged in Cuernavaca in 2011 and there we began to document with a group that we had called Emergencia MX where there were several people who made audiovisuals in different trades and the idea was to document the processes and actions of the different caravans. It was a free medium reporting what was happening with the tools we had. And from there, when we heard the news of the exhumation process in Jojutla and Tetelcingo in Morelos, we came with the idea of recording the historical memory and testimonies of what was happening and thus we arrived at that space”.
She says that immersed in that context, little by little they discovered how they were going to tell these films that they present today. Carolina, in this sense, explains that “Llueve” is the prequel to “Volverte a verte”. “’Llueve’ tells how Maria Hernandez and her sister Amalia They discover the Tetelcingo grave because they had buried their son Oliver there “by mistake,” says the Prosecutor’s Office in quotes. And after Oliver they realize that there are others 116 or 117 bodies and they decide to speak for them and wonder who they are and why they were buried there without warning. “It rains” is a 10-minute animated short film illustrated by María Conejo, an artist from Cuautla, where it is explained as a symbolic element that the rain gives María signals, which means that it is a means of communication between her and her son, because when it’s raining, he’s trying to tell her something.
“And ‘Volverte a ver’ is a documentary feature film about the Jojutla trench, in which we filmed the Regresando A Casa Morelos collective training in forensic work, taking a workshop to understand what they are going to record and what they need to observe in that way. pit to be dug in Jojutla. So, they participate in the exhumations and take note of all these bodies, their clothes, their scars, they analyze them in a very loving way, not just as an expert or an official would coldly analyze them, but as mothers or relatives of the disappeared.” says Caroline. In addition, she relates that these same women also receive relatives who come to wonder if their disappeared are in this grave. “It is a film that is observing what is happening these days, it is like an eye that is present as if it were one of the people”.
During the documentary, one of the protagonists states that the disappeared persons experience a double disappearance, when they are taken from their homes and when the government itself, in this case that of Morelos, hides them in graves. “This documentary portrays the government’s participation in this chain of disappearances and in this chain of the war itself. At least this double disappearance is that we don’t know who kills them, if organized crime or the government, or for whatever reason and the fact that the government finds the body, takes it to the forensic services and disappears it. So, people are looking for their family member and the government has already buried him in a common grave”, says Magali. “That participation is impressive, we don’t know if it is complicity or if it is concealment, or negligence, as in the case of the trailers that were in Jalisco, which were full of bodies and that no longer fit in the forensic services.”
It also highlights that in Other countries have to do the burials with a protocol where there are investigation folders and autopsies. “And in Mexico it does not happen, here they literally buried people without an autopsy, without an investigation folder… So, there is that border where we wonder if it is negligence or complicity and participation in this chain of disappearances and I think that that question is almost answered. He asks when there is not even a political will to finish both the exhumation and identification processes, almost seven years after we went to those exhumations, there is no progress, we do not know who is buried there, only 14 bodies have been delivered from the grave from Tetelcingo and in Jojutla none have been identified, the identification processes have not even begun”.
These film projects that are already visible will continue their journey with a tour with ecocinema by different States of the Republic in more communal spaces. In addition, the filmmakers will continue their work of continuing to represent social and environmental stories.
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