MEMENTO MORI

MEMENTO MORI

Fernando López Cardona | Colombia-Germany | Fiction | 2023  | 112 min | NY PREMIERE

Trailer: https://youtu.be/VKshG6PNUy4

A fisherman discovers the body of a headless man in the Magdalena River and bury it the cemetery as N.N. (John Doe), like others that have been found. In the port, people have started to adopt this corpses, they take the dead with no name as if they were their own, so they can replace the grief they feel for their own missing relatives. However, the "headless man" generates fear among the locals. The Animero, the man who takes care of the souls in the cemetery, approaches the crypt, he prays to him and marks the grave with the word: "Chosen". Only he, the great oracle, dares to adopt the beheaded man with the promise from him will find the head and return dignity to the body. It's a covenant that will take him to deep hell.

Un pescador encuentra un cuerpo sin cabeza en el río Magdalena. Lo levanta y lo sepulta como un N.N. en Puerto Berrío. En el puerto la genta ha empezado a adoptarlos, toman los muertos ajenos como si fueran propios. Pero la tumba del hombre sin cabeza genera miedo entre ellos, saben que los desmembrados son proscritos por los poderosos de la guerra. Un hombre al que llaman el “Animero”, el que saca a pasear las ánimas del cementerio, tiene el valor de adoptar al descabezado. Es un pacto que lo llevará hasta el mismo infierno. Su compromiso será encontrar la cabeza y devolverle la dignidad al cadáver.