Dark Suns

Soleils Noirs
Julien Elie
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Art of the Real 2019

April 18 - 28, 2019

Shot in stark monochrome, Julien Elie’s Dark Suns chronicles the hundreds of murders of women, journalists, and activists in Mexico since the early 1990s and the insidious culture of cartel violence and police corruption behind them.

DIRECTOR
Julien Elie
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
Canada
RUNTIME
152 minutes
LANGUAGE
Spanish with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Soleils Noirs

Q&A with Julien Elie

Shot in stark monochrome, Dark Suns chronicles the hundreds of murders of women, journalists, students, and activists in Mexico since the 1990s, and the insidious culture of cartel violence and state corruption behind them. Spanning the notorious femicides in Ciudad Juárez at the northern border to the murders of journalists in Veracruz in the south, director Julien Elie draws on the testimony of determined investigators, family members, journalists, priests, lawyers, and activists, tracing a path of organized and unpunished criminality that involves drug and human trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, and collusion with the governments on both sides of the border.

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