El Grito, México 1968 (1968)

Original title

El grito

Directed by

Leobardo López Arretche

Genre

documentary film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

2h

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Mexican documentary follows university students rallying for political change in 1968. It shows the student movement in Mexico City and the Tlatelolco massacre where the military attacked them.

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What happens

El grito (English: The Cry, The Scream, or The Shout) is a 1968 Mexican documentary film directed by Leobardo López Aretche about the Mexican Student Movement of 1968, in which university students rallied public support for political change under the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had been in power since 1929. The film also chronicles the Tlatelolco massacre that occurred in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, on 2 October 1968, committed by the Mexican Armed Forces against students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) and other universities. López Aretche, who was then a 26-year-old film student at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (University Centre of Cinematographic Studies, CUEC) in UNAM, led a group of film students to gather footage of the movement as it grew from July 1968 into October, shot using 16 mm film cameras. López Aretche survived the Tlatelolco massacre but was arrested that night and imprisoned for several months. The footage gathered by him and fellow students was compiled into El grito, which was edited in 1969 but reportedly banned by authorities and was not screened publicly until after López Aretche's suicide in 1970. The film was broadcast on TV for the first time in 1998, before the PRI were voted out of power in 2000. In 2018, El grito was shown at the Cinéma du Réel film festival in Paris, France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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