El Sicario, Room 164

Activity Type: 
Film
Date: 
Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 19:30
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
McConomy Auditorium
Contact Person: 
Jolanta Lion
Contact Email: 
jola@cmu.edu
Cost: 
$5 seniors and students* | $8 'Others'

The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Others

El Sicario, Room 164 explores the terrifyingly casual roots of evil through the eyes of an unnamed, former "el sicario”a hit man and enforcer for a drug cartel in Ciudad Juárez who once kidnapped and tortured someone in the very room in which Gianfranco Rosi films this thrilling documentary. (France/United States | 2011 | 80 min.)

UCIS Unit: 
Global Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Carnegie Mellon University