
THE TINIEST PLACE
El lugar más pequeño
Mexico | 2011 | 108 min
The civil war in El Salvador, which started in 1979 and lasted for 12 years, ended with over eighty thousand casualties and thousands of desaparecidos. Countless villages were razed and ceased existing even in official maps. After two decades, the community of Cinquera has repopulated their village destroyed and abandoned during the conflict: new and old inhabitants coexist with the memories of a recent past marked by violence. Tatiana Huezo travels from Mexico to her country of origin, collecting eyewitness accounts from a resisting people that are trying to reconstruct their village from the ashes on their own. El lugar más pequeño creates a mosaic of images and words in which the voices of a wounded community weave the threads of a dialogue that is bringing life where hate and death prevailed. The filmmaker sets up for the viewer a space for listening and empathy in an immersive journey into hope. A hope found in the middle of a forest, a protective and vital force of a new future of peace. (a.d.)