Corazón Ausente

Yadi is one of the many Mexican women looking for their loved ones in mass graves across the country. She is searching for her son - her corazón - and all the other missing persons. She digs in abandoned buildings, a children's playground and in the desert, where she discovers dozens of bodies. In order to find him, she has to become an activist and a forensic specialist. „Corazón Ausente“ is an animated reconstrucion of Yadi's search: A search for an end to uncertainty and for the possibility to grief

animated documentary / 19:24 / 2026

with Yadi and Las Madres Buscadoras
directed by Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez
animated by Merlin Stadler and Paul Valentin
animation directed by Felix Klee
produced by Johanna Huber
a production of Y FILM in cooperation with University of Television and Film Munich

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