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IDFA 2008

Presumed Guilty

El externante
Roberto Hernandez
Mexico
2008
97 min
Wereldpremière
Festival history
"Presumed Guilty" is the heart-wrenching story of a man who happened to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time. On a December day in Mexico City, 2005, Toño pleaded: “God, kill me or put me in jail” to escape an unhappy love affair. Weeks later, a judge who never heard him speak sentenced him to twenty years incarceration for killing a man he'd never met. Through one man's extraordinary two-year struggle to regain his freedom, two lawyers document the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes guilt.
Credits
Screening copy
    Abogados con Camara
    Abogados con Camara
Distribution Benelux
    IDFA Bertha Fund
    IDFA Bertha Fund