Presumed Guilty
Roberto Hernandez & Geoffrey Smith / Mexico, UK / 2008 / 86 min
VO:Spanish.
Subtitles: English and Romanian
Site: www.presuntoculpable.org
Awards and festivals:
2009 – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 – Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
2009 – Morelia International Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary, Mexico
2010 – Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Canada
Produced by: Abogados con Cámara
18.03 / 19h00 / Cinema Elvira Popescu /// 19.03 / 22h30 / Cinema Elvira Popescu
In 2005, in Mexico City, Toño, breakdancer and rapper, finds himself arrested by the police and sentenced to 20 years of inprisonment for a murder he has not committed. The documentary follows two young Mexican lawyers who attempt to free the innocent, filming step by step the whole judiciary process.
In a system in which trials are based on the presumtion of guilt, in which lawyers forge their licences and what is said in court is selectively noted, young Toño's chances to be freed are scarce, but not impossible
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