Reality 2.0

"It was autumn when I came to Germany. I thought this place, which seemed so exotic, would help me distance myself from Mexico a bit, but I was wrong. The narcos came back with a vengeance."

"Realyty 2.0" is an animated documentary about the endless spiral of drug-related violence in Mexico. The film’s almost poetic images reveal the violent excesses of a society ravaged by narco-wars.Deliberately anachronistic, these images provide a striking contrast to those produced by today’s electronic media.

The animated drawings allow the film to create an artistic distance which - going beyond shock value and cynicism - enables the viewer to engage with the topic on a truer emotional level. In this way the film makes an appeal to the audience's humanity, rather than being a piece of distanced analytical commentary.

Source: 63. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)