EL GRITO (Church of Film)

In the Summer of 1968 in Mexico City, a student strike grew into massive walk-outs and demonstrations of hundreds of thousands. As the city prepares for the Olympic ceremonies in October, the government makes a horrifying decision to save the Games (and themselves).

EL GRITO was shot on the ground of the student protests that summer, made by the students themselves, building up to and capturing on film forever the fateful day in Tlatelolco, October 2nd—the day the Mexican state went to war with its own unarmed people.

The film was banned and buried for decades in a coverup by the Mexican government and its state media, existing only as a legend.