Innocent Voices
10 Jan 2007
Director: Luis Mandoki
Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico
2004
120 min
Based on a true story of Luis Mandoki’s embattled childhood. This is a poignant tale of Chava, an 11-year-old boy, who finds he has to grow up quickly in war torn El Salvador. At the age of 12 the government will come to conscript him to fight in their war against the peasant guerilla forces. Chava finds himself in a race against time as the impossible choice of joining the rebels or the army grows ever closer. An unflinching look at a child’s life in the centre of a brutal struggle. In Spanish with English Subtitles.