Riding the train from Central America to the U.S. / Mexico border from the film 'Who is Dayani Cristal?.' Photo courtesy Kino Lorber Inc.
SANTA BARBARA — The UCSB Multicultural Center to present Cup of Culture film screening of ‘Who is Dayani Cristal?’ at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21 at the MCC Theater.
Following a team of dedicated staff from the Pima County Morgue in Arizona, director Marc Silver seeks to answer the question “Who is Dayani Cristal”? This award-winning documentary tells the story of a migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death.”
Mexican actor and activist Gael Garcia Bernal retraces this man’s steps along the migrant trail in Central America and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.
The film is 85 min., English/Spanish with English subtitles, 2013, UK/Mexico.
Photo Credit: Kino Lorber Inc