The Crosses (2018, Teresa Arredondo & Carlos Vásquez Méndez)

[Mothravka]

In September 1973, only a few days after the military Coup d’Etat in Chile, the police places 19 trade unionists, employees of the same paper factory (CMPC), under arrest and takes them to the station in the small town of Laja. Five days go by without any news from the prisoners - except that they’ve been transferred to a city where no-one can find them. By the end of a six-year inquiry, their corpses are found in a nearby cemetery. No explanation is given. We will have to wait 40 years for the policemen involved to decide to confess the massacre.

LAS CRUCES dir. Teresa Arredondo Lugon, Carlos Vásquez Méndez - YouTube