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The Night Watchman
IDFA Bertha Fund 2010

The Night Watchman

El Velador
Natalia Almada
Mexico, United States
Festival history
The Night Watchman is a portrait of a cemetery in the drug heartland of México. Since the war on drugs began in 2007, the cemetery has doubled in size and the mausoleums have doubled in height creating a skyline that looks like a fantastical surrealist city more than a resting place for the deceased. Here, the lives of the cemetery workers and families of the victims, guilty and innocent, intersect in the shadow of this bloody conflict that has claimed over 22,000 lives.
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Involved TV Channel
    POV/PBS
    POV/PBS
Co-production
    Tita Productions
    Tita Productions