EL CUARTO DE LOS HUESOS

Sinopsis:

Desde el Instituto de Medicina Legal, El cuarto de los huesos acompaña a varias madres salvadoreñas en búsqueda  por los restos de sus hijos desaparecidos a causa de la violencia que se vive en su país. Una mirada hacia los restos sin nombre, sin familiares identificables, de cuerpos que se volvieron cadáveres tras haber sido abatidos por la guerra entre pandillas juveniles que se libra actualmente en El Salvador.

Synopsis:

The room of bones follows the message of four mothers in the Institute for Legal Medicine as they search for their children’s remains in the midst of three decades of social violence in El Salvador. Across Mexico and Central America, the last twenty years have been plagued by a meteoric and troubling rise in desaparecidos, or missing persons. Mass murder has become all too common, and the identity of the perpetratos remains unknown as the relationship between governments, gangs, and other criminal organizations is shrouded in mystery. As civil and legal systems have failed to thoroughly investigate the crisis, families of victims are left to seek closure and justice in their own. Salvadoran filmmaker Marcela Zamora profiles a group of forensic anthropologists in her home country tasked with the noble but gruesome work of unearthing human remains and matching them with names of desaparecidos. The result is a harrowing portrait of a region in crisis.