TACIT FILMS LTD and Mark Aitken present DEAD WHEN I GOT HERE. Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexico. The seeds of hope profoundly brought to life by his daughter in LA who thought him dead, finding him during the making of this timeless film.
A masterpiece, epic and intimate.
The faces in this film are like a thousand Caravaggios -
they are us and we are them. Ed Vulliamy, THE OBSERVER
...as beautiful as anything you will find in Bresson or Tarkovsky, it is one of the finest examples of documentary filmmaking I've ever seen. Scott Graham, SCOTTISH MENTAL HEALTH FILM FESTIVAL
Gripping and tender. THE LANCET
The film takes people to a place they did not know and did not expect to visit, the humanity of the insane.
Charles Bowden, WRITER
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WINNER
Parnu Doc Fest, Estonia 2017
Grand Prix & Best Art Film
Scottish Mental Health 2015
Grand Prize
SPECIAL MENTION
Docs DF 2015, Mexico
NOMINEE
One World Media 2016
Parnu, Estonia, 2017
DOK.fest, Munich 2016
Riga CineScapes, Latvia 2016
LASA, New York 2016
Big Sky Doc Fest 2016, USA
Cork Film Festival 2015
Dok Leipzig 2015
APHA 2015, USA
FAS 2015, Finland
Plaza Classic 2015, USA
DocFest 2015, San Francisco
Medfest 2015, London
Other screenings:
Doc Nomads, PT
Universidade da Beira, PT
Oxford University, UK
Goldsmiths University, UK
CEU San Pablo University, ES
SOAS, UK
Ritzy Cinema, UK
Frontline Club, UK
Lorenzen Centre, USA
Mesilla Valley, USA
Vision & Accion, Mexico
Maudsley Foundation, UK
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