Jorge Ramos Caballero
2008 - 74 min - Vidéo - Couleur - Colombie, Espagne
Seen from the sky, the courthouse is a fortress. Moreover, there is no façade, as if once over the threshold of this huge edifice, there is no way out again. Inside there is a maze of stairways, corridors, impersonal spaces where cleaning women are forever at work. In this labyrinth of Colombian justice, where everything is designed to lead lost souls even further astray, it is they alone who find their way. The cases judged here involve petty crimes, “trifles”: the theft of cell phones, of perfume worth 7 ¤, a phone cable... The accused all have the same profile: young, poor, homeless, in tragic family situations. Opposite them, court-appointed lawyers plead case after case non-stop. They have one miracle solution: “to plead guilty”.
Author-Director : Jorge Ramos Caballero
Photography : Christian Bitar
Sound : Jordi Rams
Editing : Carlos Muñoz Gomez-Quintero, Jorge Ramos Caballero
Delegate Producer : Gusanofilms
Distinctions
2010 - Images en bibliothèques, Paris (France) : Film soutenu par la Commission nationale de sélection des médiathèques2009 - Cinéma du réel, Paris (France) : Compétition Internationale