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Special Screenings - Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Crew:

Director: Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Guillermo Escalón
Screenplay: Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Guillermo Escalón
DOP: Ulrich Stelzner, Guillermo Escalón, Carlos del Valle, Joaquin Ruano
Production: El Escarbado, Perspective Films

Prison of Trees aka The Pelcari Project

A film by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Guillermo Escalón

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Guatemala, 1980, civil war, genocide. A strange hospital deep in the jungle tortures youths under the pretext of curing them of several vices. The patients are mainly Guatemalan, but also American. An information network investigates the hospital and discovers that, in the same neighbourhood, there is another institution holding political prisoners who are used as guinea pigs for savage “in vivo” experiments on the brain. These foreign scientists operate under the full permission of the country’s military regime.
  • Original Title:

    Carcel de Arboles
  • Country:

    Guatemala, United States of America
  • Year:

    2016
  • 80'

Crew:

Director: Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Guillermo Escalón
Screenplay: Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Guillermo Escalón
DOP: Ulrich Stelzner, Guillermo Escalón, Carlos del Valle, Joaquin Ruano
Production: El Escarbado, Perspective Films
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