SLFF Free Screenings at the University of Washington
Thursday October 20th
Communications Building Room 120
6:30 PM La Isla - Archive einer Tragödie / La isla - Archives of a Tragedy
Seattle Premiere
Blu-ray
Human Rights Documentary, 2010
Spanish, English & German w/ English subtitles
(Germany/Guatemala) 85 min.
Directed by Uli Stelzner
At the end of the 20th century, members of the Guatemalan police and armed forces killed and abducted thousands of people. However this unprecedented, modern genocide goes unpunished. To this day, a system of terror and impunity relies on silence and a lack of evidence. But in July 2005 an explosion in the Guatemalan capital led to the discovery of the archive of Guatemala's National Police. "The Island," as it was known then, was the secret prison of the notorious national police squads. Millions of documents were uncovered that helped trace a story of tragedy and inconceivable atrocities, and revealed that a young generation of archive workers was willing to free their country from the suffocating grip of its own history.
