Unforgivable / Imperdonable, the award-winning Salvadoran film is available to stream for a few days through July 4. Directed by Marlén Viñayo, the short film has won numerous awards, including the Best Short Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the Best International Short Documentary Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary, and was also nominated for Best Short at the IDA Documentary Awards, and selected by the International Documentary Association as one of the 10 best short films of 2020.
Additionally, the film was named Best Short Documentary at the POY Latam Awards, which celebrate the best visual journalism in Iberoamerica, and her director was also named “Ibero-American filmmaker of the year.”
Unforgivable follows Geovanny, a ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang, serves his sentence inside an evangelical Salvadoran prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay.
“I am very glad and excited to be able to share this movie with the public, especially in El Salvador, and I hope the story fosters discussions and deep reflections upon the society we live in,” director Viñayo said quoted by the online newspaper El Faro, which is hosting the online premiere of the film.
Unforgivable is available to stream worldwide for at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/docunforgivable.
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