El Sicario, Room 164, from director Gianfranco Rosi, winner of the award for best feature documentary at doclisboa 2010 will premiere at Film Forum, in NY, this winter.
An extraordinary documentary, essentially a one-man show, based on the Harper's magazine article - "The Sicario: A Juárez Hit Man Speaks" - by Charles Bowden.

"Gianfranco Rosi's remarkable El Sicario, Room 164, is a concerted effort to reveal the significance of a nonentity, a hooded anonymous ex-sicario or hit man (with a $250,000 contract on his head) for the Mexican drug cartels interviewed in an eerily drab motel room near the border... The sicario's unadorned mixture of boastfulness, self-flagellation, and willingness to underline Mexican and U.S. bureaucrats' complicity with the bloodthirsty agenda of the ‘narcos' (i.e., drug traffickers) possesses a raw power that needs no embellishment... (It's an) emotional roller-coaster ride that the sicario takes the audience on - from gruesome reenactments of torture to a weepy conversion experience."
Richard Porton, Cineaste

The living conditions of the immigrants in Calais, north of France. A population in transit, filmed over a period of three years (July 2007 to January 2010). The film reveals how the police exceed the law.
Refugees, displaced persons, undocumented immigrants and also unemployed workers are treated like criminals, stripped and divested of the most elementary rights, reduced to the state of "mere bodies