La Isla Archives of a Tragedy

In July 2005 a huge explosion in the Guatemalan Capital leads to the discovery of the historic archive of the National Police On the grounds of the todays Police Academy used to be located the island the secret prison of notorious National Police squadsAnd here millions of documents appeared Aided by an extraordinary visual end emotional interaction the film traces the story of a tragedy and finds prove for inconceivable atrocities committed by the Security Forces It is also a movie about a young generation of archive workers willing to free their society from the stranglehold of its own history