On November 15th, Idrissa, Chronicle of an ordinary death goes on national release in cinemas across Spain.

This investigative documentary is a candidate for the upcoming XII Gaudí Awards, already having won Alcances Audience Award, FIC-CAT Best Documentary Award, Montserrat Roig Award for journalism and the Screenly Award at Documenta Madrid 2019 .

Idrissa Diallo was 21 years old when he died in a cell in a notorious Migrants Detention Centre in Barcelona. Beyond the lyricism of its narration, the documentary is structured as a thriller, unfolding in the style of a road movie filmed as direct cinema. The driving force of the film is to discover who Idrissa was. The goal is to reveal the circumstances surrounding his death and why they were never clarified.

The team begins by looking for Idrissa’s family, a complicated search as the Spanish authorities that deal with immigration control are not willing to cooperate. In an exercise of justice, memory and reparation, Idrissa’s remains are returned to the small town of Guinea where he was born, with his family.

Idrissa, Chronicle of an ordinary death is immersed in the tradition of political cinema, the type of cinema that asks questions, leaving no-one indifferent, in its quest to uncover and discover answers.

The documentary, by the directors of Ciutat Morta Xavier Artigas and Xapo Ortega, is a production of Polar Star Films and Metromuster, with the support of ICAA, ICEC, MEDIA, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and TV3; and with the collaboration of Tanquem els CIE, Irídia and La Directa.