Mothers search for the disappeared in The Room of Bones

Search Catalog    Order Info      New Releases         Special Collections      Request a Catalog LATIN AMERICAN TITLES ABSENCES   PORTRAITS OF A SEARCH DON'T TELL ANYONE ABUELAS: Grandmothers on a Mission CHILDREN OF MEMORY  SENORITA EXTRAVIADA, MISSING YOUNG WOMAN Please click here to see all 2015 New Releases.  About WMM: Since our beginnings in 1972, WMM has grown from a feminist filmmakers' collective into an industry-leading nonprofit media arts organization and distributor. For over 40 years, WMM has transformed the landscape of filmmaking for women directors and producers, bringing the issues facing women around the world to screens everywhere. Now, with more than 550 films in our catalog, including Academy®, Emmy®, Peabody and Sundance nominees and award winners, WMM is the largest distributor of films by and about women in the world. Women Make Movies. By Women. About Women. For Everyone.  Now Available!  THE ROOM OF BONES "THE ROOM OF BONES is a necessary work...however harrowing, these images and these voices must form part of our public awareness." - Paulina Suarez, Ambulante Across Mexico and Central America, the last twenty years have been plagued by a meteoric and troubling rise in desaparecidos, or missing persons. Beautifully shot, THE ROOM OF BONES, by Salvadoran filmmaker Marcela Zamora, follows four mothers who search for the remains of their children who disappeared amidst violence in their country. It bravely documents the arduous work of forensic anthropologists in contemporary El Salvador, where tens of thousands of people have been murdered in the last decade, their remains buried in clandestine graves  In THE ROOM OF BONES the search for physical remains, uncovers the brutal history of three decades of social violence in this Central American country.  The impossibility of resolving the local situation is illustrated by the film's central metaphor hidden in its title: El Salvador is like a closet overflowing with bones, too small for this much death. The result is a harrowing portrait, providing testimony to the catastrophic legacies of violence that continue to plague the region.   Watch the trailer.  Buy the DVD.   Special Offer on Related Title! When you purchase THE ROOM OF BONES at full price, get Marcela Zamora's award winning film MARIA IN NOBODY'S LAND for 50% off.* Especially timely today, as thousands of Syrian refugees make the perilous journey to leave the country, MARIA IN NOBODY'S LAND is an unprecedented and intimate look at the illegal and extremely dangerous journey of three Salvadoran women to the US.  Watch the trailer.  *Use code BONESE16 at checkout to apply your discount. Offer applies to institutional orders only. Cannot be combined with any other offer, other exceptions may apply. Offer expires 3/30/2016.  Connect with WMM! Ordering Information Online at www.wmm.com By Email: orders@wmm.com By Phone: 212.925.0606 ext. 360  Women Make Movies gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders: The National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Andy Warhol Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.