Héros sans visage
Faceless Heroes
Brussels, Béguinage church: migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain their papers. One man dies. Tunisia, Choucha camp on the Libyan border: refugees tell of the horrors experienced as they crossed the Sahara, heading north. Liège, in a refugee center: one man remembers how he crossed the Mediterranean on an inner tube. Three instances in a war for survival.
Director's Biography
MARY JIMÉNEZ, born 1948 in Lima, Peru, graduated as an architect and then studied film production at the IN SAS in Belgium. She taught film production in Cuba, Switzerland and Belgium. Her movies, features and documentaries have been selected for numerous international film festivals. FACELESS HEROES was screened in 2012 at the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon and at the Lussas Doc Film Festival. // Films (selected): 21:12 PIANO-BAR (1981), FIESTAS (1988, doc), L'AIR DE RIEN (Easy In Mind, 1989), HÉROS SANS VISAGE (Faceless Heroes, 2012, doc)
European Panorama Documentary 2013
Mary Jiménez
Belgium 2012
color
61 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Mary Jiménez
Cinematography Rémon Fromont, Bénédicte Liénard, Mary Jiménez
Editing Mary Jiménez
Sound/Sounddesign Mary Jiménez
Production
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