72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Who is Dayani Cristal?

Marc Silver
UK-Mexico      88 m.
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Premiered at Sundance Film Festival, this documentary assembles the questions brought when the border police discover in the Sonoma desert a decomposing male body with a tatoo that reads "Dayani Cristal". Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who -or what- is Dayani Cristal? Actor Gael García Bernal and director Marc Silver reconstruct this John Doe, denied an identity at his point of death, into a living and breathing human being with a full and deeply engaging life story.

Director
Marc Silver
Screenplay
Mark Monroe
Production
Pulse Films (United Kingdom)
Canana Films (Mexico)
Photography
Marc Silver, Pau Steve Birba
Music
Leonardo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman
Cast
Gael García Bernal
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Mundial
Zacatecas 142-A Colonia Roma México DF 06700
Running Time
84 m.
Country
UK-Mexico
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