The authors of the documentary will donate the proceeds of the film to EMERGENCY ONG ONLUS, to contribute to the Association's commitment and mission in defending the right to health for all individuals.
The film, the result of the independent work of nine documentary filmmakers, neither denies nor discusses healthcare. Instead, it explores economic inequality, social injustice, the rise in domestic violence, and the denial of the right to healthcare. These issues are exacerbated by the consequences of the health emergency, but they are inherent in a system that unites us all, without exception, from one end of the Earth to the other.
It thus gives voice to Brazil's indigenous people under attack by Bolsonaro, to the factory workers forced to expose themselves to the virus, to the unemployed and the families of those who cannot afford hospital transportation or a dignified burial, to the women victims of femicide, which has increased during the lockdown, to those who do not fear Covid because they are already scarred by fear, death, and poverty.
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CHAPTER 1
di Priscilla Aguirre Martínez
- Written, directed and produced by Priscilla Aguirre Martínez
- Photographs: Ricardo Bohorquez; Priscilla Aguirre Martínez
- Color Correction: Giovanny Sabogal (SABO)
- Sound: Priscilla Aguirre Martínez, Camille Enríquez, Pablo Encalada
- Soundtrack: Erlândia Ribeiro, Ramón Alvez
- Sound Design: Camille Enríquez
- Translations and subtitles: Vania Rivera
- Archive footage: News Telemundo; Noticiero El Espectador; News Diario El Expreso; Guayaquil, a reality that not everyone sees (Diario El Expreso) – Realización Enrique Ortiz; Guayaquil reclaims the desaparecidos cuerpos (Diario El Expreso) – Realización Blanca Moncada; News France24; Coronavirus in Ecuador: The drama of Guayaquil with more deaths from covid-19 that countries enter and want to contract it to give them a whole day (BBC News)
Guayaquil, my city, is transforming into a Dantesque hell while I can only watch from afar. An intimate reflection, a painful, helpless nostalgia, a diary of horror and social inequality; a personal glimpse into an apocalyptic landscape, made up of corpses abandoned in the streets and the heartbreaking screams of those who see death manifest in the most macabre ways before their eyes.
CHAPTER 2
di Lukas Jaramillo e Juan Pablo Patiño
- With Rosa Adela Tejada e Fredy Ernesto Jaramillo
- Directed by Juan Pablo Patiño e Lukas Jaramillo
- Produced by Cinematographic Production Services SAS.; María Paula Jiménez ; Juan Pablo Patiño; Lukas Jaramillo
- Sound: Juan Pablo Patiño; Rueda Sonido
- Photographs: Lukas Jaramillo
- Mounting: Lukas Jaramillo
- Thanks to: Rosa Adela Tejada; Fredy Ernesto Jaramillo; Collected naturally; Susana Molina
Rosa and Fredy live in the La Honda neighborhood of Medellín. Death, fear, and confinement at home are new to many brought on by the pandemic, but for them it's a familiar reality. For some, Covid-19 is just another tragedy, especially for those fleeing violence, poverty, and corruption, trying to rebuild their lives and defend their dignity.
CHAPTER 3
di Pauli Gutiérrez Arcos
- Written, directed and produced by Pauli Gutiérrez Arcos
- Mounting: Alfredo Ortega
- Sound Design: Manu Ponce
- Soundtrack: Cristóbal Oyarce
Traveling the world and only discovering what truly matters upon returning home, realizing that when life wants to teach you something, it always finds a way. Experiencing the outbreak of a pandemic firsthand and feeling the virus stalking you, reaching even your loved ones.
CHAPTER 4
di Stefano Virgilio Cipressi
- Directed, produced and edited by Stefano Virgilio Cipressi
- Photographs: Stefano Virgilio Cipressi
- Drawings: Anna Brancato
- Soundtrack: Samuel Cima
- Thanks to: All the workers who participated; all those who helped us with the interviews; Carla Ferracini; Francesca Marras; Andrés Rico
Not everything will be okay if some people remain locked up, if the right to healthcare doesn't apply to everyone, if the interests of the few prevail over those of the many. How can a country consider itself civilized if production, even non-essential goods, is more important than the health of workers? From Italy's factories, during the lockdown, the voices of those who felt like slaughterhouse meat.
CHAPTER 5
di Xabier Ortiz De Urbina
- With Agustin Arandigoyen e Victoria Arandigoyen
- Directed and edited by Xabier Ortiz de Urbina
- Photographs: Xabier Ortiz de Urbina
- Color correction: Stefano Virgilio Cipressi
My mother has been caring for my grandfather since he became unable to care for himself. Amid the growing business of private nursing homes, amid the shocking increase in deaths in nursing homes, I see in this woman the symbol of another possible system of care, however difficult. The house is filled with unconditional love while the TV reports on investment funds that see the elderly as a source of profit. Perhaps it is the very idea of humanity that I see in my mother's smile and in my grandfather's wrinkles.
CHAPTER 6
di Andres Rico
- With Gene Sullivan
- Written and directed by Andres Rico
- Produced and assembled by Andres Rico
- Audio Post-Production: Pedro Garcia
- Subtitles: Andres Rico
Gene Sullivan, a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), explains the importance of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which allows citizens to own guns. This importance, he believes, is even more evident during a pandemic.
CHAPTER 7
di Raissa Dourado
- With Elivar Karitiana e Celso Suruí
- Directed by Raíssa Dourado
- Photographs: Raissa Dourado e Neni Glock
- Drone operator: Luis Gabriel Almeida
- Mounting: Stefano Virgilio Cipressi
- Color correction: Stefano Virgilio Cipressi
- Translations: Giacomo Rossetti; Arelis Soto
- Thanks to: Luis Gabriel Almeida; Marcia Mura; Isaka Huni Kuin; Piratá Wauja Pyiulaga; Lautaro Actis
As the Amazon rainforest burns, Bolsonaro accuses its indigenous inhabitants of being the perpetrators of the fires. But how can this be done to the place you live in, that you love, that provides you with food and medicine? A journey through the sounds and colors that endure and those lost forever, through indigenous voices and their unheard pleas.
CHAPTER 8
di Diana María González Colmenero
- Written, directed and edited by Diana María González Colmenero
- Photographs: Diana María González Colmenero
- “Song without fear” by Living Quintana
Dates, names, and places are coldly listed, yet they tell the story of the women and girls killed during the months of lockdown in Mexico. An increase in violence in a context where the country's femicide figures were already horrifying. Why is it so difficult to hear our pain?
