Dying to Tell

'Morir para contar', 2018

"Morir para contar" tells the stories of Spanish war correspondant dead while doing their work.

"Morir para contar" tells the stories of Spanish war correspondant dead while doing their work.

Runtime

87 minutes

Type

Feature

Genre

Documentary

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Dying to Tell

Carmen Sarmiento, Hernán Zin, 2018

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Montréal World Film Festival

Winner

2018

Documentaries of the World

Best Documentary

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"Morir para contar" tells the stories of Spanish war correspondant dead while doing their work.

In 2012, awarded filmmaker Hernán Zin suffered an accident in Afghanistan that changed his life forever. The traumas he had been accumulating during 20 years of war reporting suddenly imploded. He began suffering depression, loneliness and self-destructive behaviors. Searching for answers of what happened to him, Hernán Zin decided to interview other journalists. He asked them about their traumas, their losses, their fears and their families. DYING TO TELL is the first documentary film ever made about trauma in war reporters. It is a brutal and torn portrait of war, and a tribute to those who risk their lives for the world to be informed. The most prestigious war reporters of the last decades - including several Pulitzer prize winners - open up and share their worst nightmares with us. Reporters that have been kidnapped by ISIS, wounded in Syria, and who have lost friends in Bosnia, Libya, Sierra Leone, Iraq or Afghanistan In the line of Oscar Winner documentary WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, ...

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"Morir para contar" tells the stories of Spanish war correspondant dead while doing their work.

Synopsis

In 2012, awarded filmmaker Hernán Zin suffered an accident in Afghanistan that changed his life forever. The traumas he had been accumulating during 20 years of war reporting suddenly imploded. He began suffering depression, loneliness and self-destructive behaviors. Searching for answers of what happened to him, Hernán Zin decided to interview other journalists. He asked them about their traumas, their losses, their fears and their families. DYING TO TELL is the first documentary film ever made about trauma in war reporters. It is a brutal and torn portrait of war, and a tribute to those who risk their lives for the world to be informed. The most prestigious war reporters of the last decades - including several Pulitzer prize winners - open up and share their worst nightmares with us. Reporters that have been kidnapped by ISIS, wounded in Syria, and who have lost friends in Bosnia, Libya, Sierra Leone, Iraq or Afghanistan In the line of Oscar Winner documentary WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, ...

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Cast

Hernán Zin

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David Beriain

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Javier Bauluz

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Director

Director

Hernán Zin

Screenwriter

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