Pedro Samper’s short film follows a woman who operates a cemetery in Colombia for people who die, mostlyVenezuelan migrants, without anyone to see their burial.
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00:30Another dream
00:45Once I was dreaming,
00:49that I had arrived here at the cemetery
00:51and when I arrived,
00:53at the entrance there was a pool
00:57And just when I was going up
00:59To observe what was inside the pool, it turns out that what was there were only dead people.
01:06All these people get up, but it was a quantity.
01:10A quantity of people get up and with their hands they ask for mercy.
01:29This is the property that was buried, and this is the certificate of disposal.
01:59This is the property that was buried, and this is the certificate of disposal.
02:10This is the property that was buried, and this is the certificate of disposal.
02:16The same?
02:19I do the same?
02:29It's dry, it's good.
02:39It's like I've never seen it before.
02:43It's dusty, it's dusty.
02:59Singing
03:09Sound of thunder
03:28I lived in the morgue at that time.
03:35I moved to the morgue because of problems I had as a couple with my husband.
03:41He went crazy and didn't build a manicomio.
03:46He made me choose between the dead and him.
03:52I knew that the north of me was the dead.
03:56He wasn't my husband.
03:59I share with my dead and I feel happy.
04:04I am happy next to my dead.
04:09I am happy next to my dead.
04:31Don't worry.
04:33Hello, good morning.
04:35Don't worry, I'm managing.
04:39I called the mayor and told him, either you solve it for me,
04:43or I'll go and put the four dead I have at the mayor's door,
04:47and they run to the water where they want to run.
04:51Ready.
04:53We're on it.
04:55Well, ready.
04:58Either you solve it for me, or I'll shoot you.
05:01I already told the mayor.
05:04My love, tell me, what can I do for you?
05:07My father just died.
05:10But I don't have any copy papers from the hospital.
05:14Why don't you have anything?
05:16Because he died this morning and I was here in Riway.
05:19That's all I have.
05:21And what do you need?
05:23I don't have anything to bury him or to bring him here.
05:27Well, please go.
05:29Do you have faith?
05:31Do you have a fever?
05:33It's yesterday.
05:35You're still in the hospital sleeping outside and all that.
05:40Do me a favor.
05:42Buy me two green doles at the store.
05:45Give me, where are your father's papers?
05:49So that every hospital or clinic can work,
05:54it must have a morgue by law.
05:57A morgue to keep the corpses,
05:59because all human beings don't have the psychological power
06:04to have a family member die.
06:08So if the lady doesn't have...
06:11The number of the deceased man's documents.
06:15I'll have it.
06:17I'll give you the number of the deceased man's documents.
06:20It says Barrios Vasquez, Santiago.
06:29BARRIOS VASQUEZ, SANTIAGO
06:59BARRIOS VASQUEZ, SANTIAGO
07:30I'm going to oblige you.
07:32You're not going to give me anything.
07:34I don't want anything.
07:36I don't want confetti, I don't want anything.
07:38I don't want anything.
07:40How are you?
07:43Man!
07:49Man, I don't know.
07:51That box, imagine.
07:53That box, look at the box he's going to give me.
07:56Do you think...
07:57Do you think he's going to call Tony?
07:59You're going to give it to Tony and those people won't give me anything.
08:02Look at what I have here.
08:04Do you think it's a lie?
08:06I don't have sheets.
08:08If there are no sheets, you can't get any sheets.
08:10Look at the one I gave him.
08:12Look at that one.
08:14That one isn't expensive.
08:16Ricardo, you're going to make me...
08:18And change that for another one.
08:22Hey, and how am I going to get the dead man and those three boxes?
08:27That one, put the dead man in that one.
08:31Or put the dead man in that one.
08:34That one down and put that one up.
08:42Put that one as it is, okay?
08:57Okay.
09:02Yes, I have it.
09:12No, but I still have to...
09:15I have to...
09:17I have to arrange it because I...
09:19I don't like it when my dead people are uncomfortable.
09:23Roll it over here a little bit.
09:28You don't know that they realize the treatment...
09:31Roll it over here.
09:35There.
09:37They realize the treatment that you give them.
09:41What happens is that they can't speak
09:44because the faculty...
09:46There, there, there.
09:48The faculty...
09:50They lost that one.
09:53But then...
09:54But then...
09:56You have to give them a good treatment.
10:01Because they watch over us.
10:07Everyone has a quarter of an hour in their life
10:13That motivates them
10:16That excites them to be triumphant
10:21It's a moment of good luck
10:24That you love
10:27It's my moment
10:29And this is my star
10:31And I'm going forward
10:33And that's why I am
10:36How I am
10:38The friend I've always been for you
10:41And if I have a moment of glory
10:44I know that in triumph
10:47There is pain
10:49I don't make two faces
10:51For no one
10:53That's why people believe in me
10:56And they trust me
10:58They lend me, they give me
11:00That's why I'm rich in love
11:03If I have a stumble
11:05With elegance
11:08For me, a failure is a gain
11:22I am
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11:52Look
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12:00Wait a moment, gentleman
12:04Don't despair me
12:07That the race brings tiredness
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12:22A little bit of strength there, man
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21:51Ay, déjame verle la cara al viejito, Prada, ay hombre, qué tristeza.
22:08Bueno, como se hace, lo importante es que se sepulte dignamente.
22:16Ay, a los demás. Vamos.
22:23Cada vez que vengo aquí, tengo la oportunidad de mirarme y pregunto, ¿será que mis sueños
22:48terminarán y se acabarán sin yo ver lo que quiero de gente como uno?
22:55Porque te cuento que solamente mirar hasta allá, hasta donde termina esto, me pongo
23:05a pensar, ¿cuántos años tendrán que pasar para yo ser la gente como una?
23:11Así como voy, imagínate. Pero bueno, solo Dios sabe qué va a pasar.
23:41Ay, déjame verla la cara al viejito, Prada, ay hombre, qué tristeza.
24:09Bueno, como se hace, lo importante es que se sepulte dignamente.
24:38Oye, mariposa negra, que mi corazón delida. Oye, mariposa negra, que mi corazón delida.
24:48No quiere que yo viva...