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DARK SUNS

In Mexico, hundreds of young women have been murdered in recent years. Migrants are kidnapped and enslaved, students are seized and disappear forever, peasant leaders are found dead while journalists are executed in broad daylight. The silence of the authorities and impunity encourages all kinds of abuses. Fear invades the countryside and the cities, the mountain trails and the highways. Mexico looks like a mass graveyard

  • JULIEN ELIE
    Director
    Jusquiame noire, 28 minutes, 16mm, noir et blanc, 1994., Le Dernier repas, 67 minutes, Video HD, couleur, 2002, Celui qui savait, 52 minutes, Video HD, couleur, 2002, Soleils noirs, 154 minutes, 4k, noir et blanc, 2018
  • JULIEN ELIE
    Writer
    Jusquiame noire, 28 minutes, 16mm, noir et blanc, 1994., Le Dernier repas, 67 minutes, Video HD, couleur, 2002, Celui qui savait, 52 minutes, Video HD, couleur, 2002, Soleils noirs, 154 minutes, 4k, noir et blanc, 2018
  • JULIEN ELIE
    Producer
    Jusquiame noire, 28 minutes, 16mm, noir et blanc, 1994., Le Dernier repas, 67 minutes, Video HD, couleur, 2002, Celui qui savait, 52 minutes, Video HD, couleur, 2002, Soleils noirs, 154 minutes, 4k, noir et blanc, 2018
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    SOLEILS NOIRS
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    2 hours 34 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 10, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    400,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.33:1 (4:3)
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • RIDM
    MONTRÉAL
    Canada
    November 10, 2018
    World premiere
    National Grand Prize
  • FICUNAM
    Mexico city
    Mexico
    March 3, 2019
    Mexico city premiere
    Public Grand Prize, Special Mention for best director achievement
  • TRUE or FALSE
    Missouri
    United States
    March 1, 2019
    USA Premiere
  • AMBULANTE
    Xalapa
    Mexico
    February 21, 2019
    Latin American Premiere
Distribution Information
  • To Come
Director Biography - JULIEN ELIE

Born in the early seventies, near Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, in Montreal. He made his film debut with a short fiction film, Jusquiame noire, still unfinished. In 1997, he finds himself in Rwanda where he befriends a Croatian priest by the name of Vjeko Curic, murdered a few months later. He then makes He Who Knew Too Much, an investigative report on political crimes in that area. Towards the end of the 1990s, he begins a correspondence with death-row inmate Farley C. Matchett. This inspires him to direct The Last Meal, in 2002, a documentary film which delves into the heart of Capital-Punishment-America, in Huntsville, Texas. Reaching the age of thirty, he loses himself in a raging blizzard. Having survived, several years later he finds himself somewhere in Mexico, where he searches for an abandoned hotel in the hills of Michoacán, the very place where Luis Buñuel would go to write his films. It is perhaps from atop those cliffs that materialized the outline for Dark Suns.

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