The film directed by Alejandro Rath has the voices of Sergio, Alexis and Carla, victims of ecclesiastical sexual abuse in Argentina.
“Tres Cruces”, the documentary led by Alejandro Rath He arrived at the Gaumont screen. It is starring the voices of Sergio, Alexis and Carla, Three victims of ecclesiastical sexual abuse in Argentina. Three childhoods that were destroyed. Three people who were marked with a cross for life.
Based on the journalistic investigation of Julián Maradeo, The documentary proposes to explore the daily life of these victims. Both Sergio, Alexis and Carla try to rebuild their lives, break the silence and seek justice. It is not only about what happened, but how they transit it on a day -to -day basis. “If there is something I learned by making this movie is that it is very difficult to talk about this. He took each one for many years to say, so I appreciate a lot that they have put the body “said the director at the premiere of “Tres Cruces”.
Sergio, Alexis and Carla: the voices of “Tres Cruces”
What is verbalized is strengthened. On the one hand, the documentary has the testimony of Sergio, who was abused by his uncle priest in Entre Ríos. The memory, blocked for decades, reappears and drives him to transform his life: assumes his sexual identity, reconstructs his family ties and communicates with Pope Francis, who recommends that he does not denounce the fact.
On the other hand, it is Alexis, victim of the “healer” Juan Diego Escobar Gaviria, along with other altogees. The collective complaint achieved the condemnation of the priest, but unleashed social reprisals in his community. Despite exile and stigma, Alexis returns because he wants to rebuild his story.
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And finally, but not least, “Tres Cruces” has the voice of Carla, a trans woman who represents her testimony through a performance. “I have not come to have a favorable result with justice because they have given rise to prescription. Visible to this issue from art is the only thing I have left, it’s the only thing I know how to do, I don’t know another way of healing ”he said at the premiere. Although his complaint to the priest Emilio Lamas could not be exercised legallythrough its transition process and its activism in the LGTBIQ+movement, Carla took command of her struggle, one as intimate as political.
Although “Three crosses” It seeks to give voice to the victims, it is starring silence. When an childhood is destroyed, words do not always reach. But, even so, as the director, Sergio, Alexis and Carla said they put the body.
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“It is not a movie that speaks about faith. It is a film that talks about an institution that is made up of people and is very wrong in the way it proceeds in front of this type of facts, ”said Tomás Eloy Muñoz, producer of the documentary. According to journalistic surveys, In the last 20 years there were at least 128 priests of the Argentine Catholic Church denounced by abuse. “Three crosses” It appears to make visible a fact that, although time passes, does not prescribe.
Source: Ambito
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