The Mexican Suitcase

Festivals & Awards

• Premios Goya 2012. 8 nominations:  Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Direction, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography, Best Edition, Best Sound.
• Festival Internacional de Morelia 2011
• Festival de Cine de San Sebastián 2011. Section: Hecho en México
• Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla 2011. Section: Historia(s) del Cine
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2011. Section: Documentaries out of competition

Synopsis

The Mexican Suitcase directed by Trisha Ziff tells the story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives taken by renowned photographers, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour during the Spanish Civil War and recovered 70 years later, in a closet in Mexico City. Mexican Suitcase looks at the journey of these “lost” negatives from the war in Mexico, to the exile to France and to Mexico, where they remained safe for more than half a century. Mexican Suitcase also looks at the legacy of the war that Spain has only recently begun to address, after decades of repression and silence.