Blue Files

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Basque filmmaker Ander Iriarte always suspected that his father had been tortured by the Spanish police. But he wasn’t sure, because his father never spoke of the past. This changed when his father participated in an extensive research project into torture in the Basque Country between 1960 and 2014, promoted by the Basque Government’s Peace Plan.

The videotaped witness statements reveal horrific torture practices. To find out what torture is and what it does to victims, Iriarte interviewed psychiatrists, lawyers and other experts who conducted the study. They discuss in detail the Istanbul Protocol, adopted by the United Nations in 1999, which provided guidelines for the investigation and documentation of torture and other inhuman treatment. The disturbing conclusion is that torture is not the work of deranged sadists, but is systemically embedded in societies.

"I can no longer conceive the report without the film" — Paco Echevarría

"Although directed with a cold head, a documentary that squeezes your heart with one hand." — Aitor Merino

"The story of a painful, uncomfortable, and deliberately silenced truth." — Oskar Matute

“Search, investigate, do not judge, show; as if Ken Loach met Freud.” — Javier Tolentino

"In the year 2022, a documentary that particularly moved me, since I saw it, I can't get it out of my head" — Gaiza Izagirre

“We cannot understand torture without the psychological component and this documentary shows the suffering it generates in all its crudeness." — Pilar Garrido

"It shames us because it puts before our eyes the evidence of the brutality of the State long silenced and denied." — Aitor Gabilondo

"A must-see documentary to discover all the truth." — Maixabel Lasa

"It is clearly shown how the state, instead of protecting, has acted with complete brutality and impunity." — María Jauregi

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