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Sista kapitlet
Peter Torbiörnsson
Spain, Sweden
2010
102 min
International Premiere
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In 1984, a long, narrow boat skimmed over the San Juan River, the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. On board was a group of international journalists, on their way to a press conference with guerrilla leader Ed\'e9n Pestora in La Penca. A bomb went off shortly thereafter, killing four people and wounding dozens more. Twenty-five years later, one of the victims, a Swedish journalist named Peter Torbi\'f6rnsson, goes back to Nicaragua to investigate the attack. This is no easy task in a country that still carries the baggage of its lengthy civil war. Like a true detective, Torbi\'f6rnsson goes looking for those responsible for the bombing, but his investigation in Nicaragua is also an emotional confrontation with his own feelings of guilt about La Penca. Could he have prevented the attack? In voice-over and directly into the camera, he analyzes his findings and his guilty conscience in a journalistic manner: clearly formulated and from a respectable distance. In passing, the film also sketches a picture of the disillusioned, impoverished Nicaraguans. Will the truth ever be told, or is it better to leave the past alone?

Credits
Director
Co-production
    Estudi Playtime
    Estudi Playtime
Involved TV Channel
    SVT,
    Televisio de Catalunya
    SVT,
    Televisio de Catalunya
World Sales
    Eden Film
    Eden Film
Screening copy
    Eden Film
    Eden Film