Jimmy Rivière
Israel is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street. Israel Ticas…
Jimmy Rivière
Israel is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street. Israel Ticas is the only criminologist working in one of Latin America's most dangerous countries. In El Salvador, one child goes missing every three minutes*. Many children are killed by other minors in gang related violence. Ticas has made it his mission to find the bodies of these children, identify them, and end the agony of their families. The mothers of the missing affectionately call him The Engineer. But for The Engineer, death no longer evokes fear. Death is his every day, it has become his art. He calls the bodies he finds "friends" and his office walls are a macabre tribute to them all. The State and the Church in El Salvador have recently brokered an unstable truce between the country's rival gangs. But will the let-up in the violence allow the hundreds still missing to be found? Will the murderers come forward and reveal the hundreds of secret mass graves still yet to be investigated? Through the eyes of The Engineer this film offers a unique insight into the fight against child gang murders in El Salvador. . according to the Organisation of American States (OAS) —Juan Passarelli For The Engineer, death is an art. A corpse is a friend. And he spends more time with his friends than his family. His own life is in danger, but he continues to unearth secret mass graves and identify the hundreds of missing children lost to El Salvador's gang conflict. —Juan Passarelli Israel Ticas is the only criminologist working in one of Latin America's most dangerous countries, El Salvador. Many children are killed by other minors in gang related violence. Ticas has made it his mission to find the bodies of these children, identify them, and end the agony of their families. The mothers of the missing affectionately call him The Engineer. But for The Engineer, death no longer evokes fear. Death is his every day, it has become his art. He calls the bodies he finds 'friends' and his office walls are a macabre tribute to them all. Through the eyes of The Engineer this film offers a unique insight into the fight against child gang murders in El Salvador. —Anonymous
Jimmy Rivière
Drama
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Israel is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street. Israel Ticas is the only criminologist working in one of Latin America's most dangerous countries.
In El Salvador, one child goes missing every three minutes*. Many children are killed by other minors in gang related violence. Ticas has made it his mission to find the bodies of these children, identify them, and end the agony of their families.
The mothers of the missing affectionately call him The Engineer. But for The Engineer, death no longer evokes fear. Death is his every day, it has become his art.
He calls the bodies he finds "friends" and his office walls are a macabre tribute to them all. The State and the Church in El Salvador have recently brokered an unstable truce between the country's rival gangs. But will the let-up in the violence allow the hundreds still missing to be found? Will the murderers come forward and reveal the hundreds of secret mass graves still yet to be investigated? Through the eyes of The Engineer this film offers a unique insight into the fight against child gang murders in El Salvador.
. according to the Organisation of American States (OAS) —Juan Passarelli For The Engineer, death is an art. A corpse is a friend.
And he spends more time with his friends than his family. His own life is in danger, but he continues to unearth secret mass graves and identify the hundreds of missing children lost to El Salvador's gang conflict. —Juan Passarelli Israel Ticas is the only criminologist working in one of Latin America's most dangerous countries, El Salvador.
Many children are killed by other minors in gang related violence. Ticas has made it his mission to find the bodies of these children, identify them, and end the agony of their families. The mothers of the missing affectionately call him The Engineer.
But for The Engineer, death no longer evokes fear. Death is his every day, it has become his art. He calls the bodies he finds 'friends' and his office walls are a macabre tribute to them all.
Through the eyes of The Engineer this film offers a unique insight into the fight against child gang murders in El Salvador. —Anonymous.