Discover the Trailer of 'Murder by the Coast', Directed by Tània Balló

Which Place Does the Justice Have When Society Has Already Chosen a Guilty?

The documentary will be presented on Saturday May 29 at DocsBarcelona and will arrive on Netflix on June 23.

Murder by the coast is the first documentary film that addresses, 20 years later, the review of the Wanninkhof-Carabantes case. A cinematographic bet from the multiple angels and aspects of the case: judicial, police, political, mediatic, sociological and gender.

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Directed by Tània Balló and produced by Brutal Media, the documentary will arrive on Netflix on June 23 after passing through the DocsBarcelona documentary festival that is held in Barcelona from May 18 to 30.

“I have been thinking for many years that this story deserved a documentary. I have worked with the distance that the time has given us, with the greatest respect and with a critical and reflective will. When all this happened I was 22. Now, 20 years later, I bring a more mature look, and from an almost cinematic narrative, I can make a reflection about society. My previous works have as thematic axes the history, the democratic memory,… now my intention with this film is to go one step further and recover the spirit of social denunciation from the contemporary and the gender perspective, something that 20 years ago was unthinkable ”.

- Tània Balló, director of Murder by the coast

About Murder by the coast

In 1999, the young Rocío Wanninkhof was murdered. Dolores Vázquez, her mother's ex-partner, enters prison without solid evidence that proves her guilt. Influenced by a strong discriminatory campaign, Spanish public opinion wants to find a culprit. When the lifeless body of another teenager, Sonia Carabantes, appears in 2003, the police catch the real assassin, but by then society has already turned the page. A cinematographic bet that covers the multiple perspectives of the case: judicial, political, mediatic and gender.