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Jovita y Valentín

Sponsored Project

  • Maite Zubiaurre, Director/Producer
  • Jae-an Crisman, Director/Producer
five people are standing on the top of a hill and looking out over a rural landscape in Mexico, we can only see the backs of their heads

About the Project

After two migrants disappear in the Arizona desert, JOVITA Y VALENTÍN takes us straight into the homes of their families in rural Hidalgo and Puebla, Mexico. Here we witness the fraught grief of ambiguous loss, but also the healing power of agency and solidarity: Unable to rely on consular agencies or law enforcement officials to locate their loved ones, families turn to an unlikely network of forensic experts, human rights activists, and artists working on both sides of the border. Through painstaking forensic work, community organizing, and sheer persistence, this dogged alliance accomplishes what official channels could not: bringing Jovita and Valentín back home.