University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
Latin American and Iberian Film Festival
June 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Who Is Dayani Cristal? (¿Quién es Dayani Cristal?), dir. Marc Silver, 2014, 85 min. — Mexico, United States. Deep in the sub-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who–or what–is Dayani Cristal?